Really like this movie but does it bother anyone else that...

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chedds, just so you know, I agree with you. The same is true with married people who cheat on their spouses and then end up getting married to each other. Wouldn't both of them have real trust issues since they know they both cheated on their previous partners so ,why wouldn't they do it again? The mistrust is built in from the beginning.

Yes I agree. Wouldn't Sarah find this guy a bit creepy hitting on her that early when he has said he has a gf?

Anyone watching this film would be better off watching the first ten mins and then catch the last ten mins. The middle is a load of nonsense.

It's only a movie, but I think he wasn't shure about his relationship with the girl, he was supposed to marry in the first place. Otherwise, he wouldn't have broken off the marriage, when he got that sign of Sarah.
Later on in the movie, he is still obsessed about her name.
And I think, Sarah wasn't very sure about her relation with Lars either.


What if this as good as it gets?

We don't know how serious either relationship was. Considering he broke up with her boyfriend a few weeks later (Minion said she moved out that year, which means a few weeks tops)

As for his part, we don't know whether his fiance was the girlfriend.

And finally, anyone getting a boyfriend/girlfriend a glove as a Christmas gift obviously doesn't care THAT much about them if they know them at all.

There is no one on IMDB I care enough for to use spell check- suck it grammar Nazis

It doesn't bother me. That was just the nature of their relationship. You can't help love sometimes.
I can understand why that's uncomfortable tho. It's a scary situation to think that could happen to your own situation. But in the end, they end up with their one, their, choice, their soul mate, whatever it is.. 'they live happily ever after.' While we don't learn the rest of the story of the other girl, I'm sure she's better off with someone it works out with.

Normally I would agree with you, but I think that both Kate Beckinsale and John Cusak deserve exemptions. I mean,look at them.

I believe this is called avoir le coup de foudre ("to be struck by lightning"). If it ever happened to you at least once in your lifetime, you should understand these reactions instantly. Being the totally but funnily assertive Cusack that we all know so well, it came out the way it did, and that itself was also funny. I think it was really meant to be that way. Far from being wrong directing, it is exactly the opposite: utterly brilliant!

That being said, I loved that movie, but to me, the ending was starting to look like a 4-minute instead of a 90-second, or just right, marshmallow on a stick by the fire. Both are sweet and give you a kind of pleasant, homey sensation in small amounts, but the first is clearly overdone and tastes much too sugary due to the caramelizing reaction. That's about what I was starting to feel during the last 15 minutes of that film (no spoiler, trust me), which showed a lack of inspiration and was playing a single chord, almost monotonously. The chord that virtually all classic rom-coms play at their conclusion, when every card falls down just about right in a very Hollywoodian fashion. Except that in this case, not only do we have a strong deja vu sensation, but on top of that, it almost starts to look and sound corny. Must be the type of syrup they were using ....

Still, a Cusack rom-com cannot be bad overall, and I gave it a 7/10 despite the hyperglycemic reaction I had when the film ended...