I saw this movie in the theatre and thought it was hokie, that the plot was typical and unoriginal, the characters were typecast (Irish bar friends, etc down to the happy bicycling nuns). I saw it partly again on TV, and thought it was worse. I am surprised that it is so high ranked. A great and innovative movie like "Fallen" is ranked almost the same. WHY? Maybe because romantic comedies are reviewed by people who want to see their romantic comedies be just so.
shareI agree with the original post; it's a bummer.
shiasunnibhaibhai said, "the plot was typical and unoriginal". Yeah, I guess you're right. Scripts where heart transplants are the central theme of a love story are a dime a dozen.
shareRomcom with:
- excessive dose of sugar
- background music substituting for plot and character development
- highly idealized urban scenes
- well-meaning but clumsy friends
- animals to establish sympathetic character
I could go on, but this one is as formulaic and unoriginal as they come.
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Please put some dashes above your sig line so I won't think it's part of your dumb post.
Typical and unoriginal?
Whether you thought it well written or well acted or not, I hardly see how it was typical and unoriginal.
I am not aware of another movie where the plot involves a guy meeting and falling in love with a woman who has his former wife's heart in her, is there one? You think that happens often (typically) in real life?
Irish bars might be typical...but it wasn't an Irish bar, it was an Italian restaurant that had an Irish name. How many of those have you seen in movies OR in real life?
I'm not aware that nuns typically and happily ride bicycles, but that just might be me; maybe they do. I've watched a lot of movies and haven't seen a lot of happy bicycling nuns, care to name a few? I know of a movie where the nun can fly, so if they had flying nuns, I'd maybe have thought that typical.
If the point is that it had some scenes that are reminiscent of other movies, most folks who recognize those "nods" find them enjoyable...I do, at least.
And is there a problem taking scenes we often see in real life and injecting them into a movie? That just gives me a frame of reference and helps me feel familiar with the movie setting. IOW it's not a bad thing.