i watched this movie for the first time yesterday..and it was really good...but how gay was it that her brother did that and it wasn't even real? if my brother had done that and i found out...i would not have a brother anymore..
shareI fail to see how her brother lying to her is a homosexual act.
shareOh, man... I hear that stuff in college all the time: "This was gaaaaay," "That was gaaaay," and I feel it's a lost cause, but hearing it on this site is too much for me. Saying this means you follow the masses without thinking twice about why they say it. It's not even how "offensive" it is to gay people, but that it diminishes your vocabulary and narrows your use of English language.
About the movie, I happened to like the brother character very much, while almost every other actor bore the bejesus out of me. I just don't see what make Bonny's character give up the romantic Italian guy for her husband, while he's acted almost exactly like before when he arrived there. And... do European countries really reveal their guests' info so easily to anyone who asks? No, they don't. The director had overlooked that fact.
I also loved Robert Downey Jr. for... everything he did in this movie. Without him, I wouldn't want to see it more than once. Although, his behavior for the most part resembled that of a stalker, or an obsessed and hopeless romantic, and in real life I don't think Tomei's character would have any respect, much less feelings, left for him in the end.
Otherwise, it's more enjoyable than not. An overall idea to pull the movie together, like the thing from Serendipidy, was needed.
Sorry for replying to such an old post, but I wanted to give my impressions about Kate's part of the story, which is actually my favorite of the film for some reason, and the movie was just on last night so I have a refreshed memory. :D
We're given the impression that A) Giovanni's a womanizer and B) Despite the problems, Kate loves Larry. When she's with Giovanni, she basically just talks about him and the kids. And there's that part where she arbitrarily says "Larry'd like those rooftops" or something like that, indicating that she's still thinking about him. Yeah, he took her for granted for a while, but her leaving was sort of his wake up call, and since Kate's already missing him, when he shows up in Italy just to see her and tell her he loves her (remember, that's like an eight hour flight,) it's not hard for her to make the decision to go back to him.
I do want to know, though, what happened to her theory that he was cheating on her. Maybe she finally started to believe Faith when she said that he would never cheat on her.
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Dick.
"Sweet? I am not sweet! I am dark and mysterious and pissed off!"
Well, if you look at it logically, she has her brother to thank for actually meeting her soulmate. Faith would have never hopped that plane to Venice if she hadn't been chasing after the name 'Damon Bradley.' Granted her brother lies about the name when they were younger, but without THAT name, Faith would never have met Peter. It was the name 'Damon Bradley' that took her to Venice where she eventually fell in love with Peter. So if I were her, I'd give my brother a big hug and kiss.
shareI'm with you. The term 'gay' was used properly here.
Screw you guys - I'm going home!
The way I see it 'gay' just means 'girlish'. I fail to see how that could insult gays or anyone else including girls. I know girls who say it about themselves if they get a little too detail obsessed or feel they have to straighten the house every five minutes or flounce pillows, oh, hell, you get the idea.
Btw, that entire paragraph is basically gay.
I don't really get how people could think that saying "that's so gay" as an insult has no relation to homosexuality. The fact that saying it's become so much more prevalent in the last decade or so as homosexuality has become more accepted and visible makes it seem pretty clear that its a reaction to homosexuality to me. It's obviously rooted in the perception that some people still have that gays are weak and inferior.
sharei watched this movie for the first time yesterday..and it was really good...but how gay was it that her brother did that and it wasn't even real? if my brother had done that and i found out...i would not have a brother anymore..