I can't believe Jonathan just dumped Halley at the end!! I can see why Sara would dump Lars but the movie never really showed what was wrong with Halley. I know Jonathan and Sara are meant for each other but I just thought it was very selfish for him to dump Halley at the very end. He should not have lead her on for so long. I also found this movie too sappy for my taste.
shareWell he wasn't necessarily leading her on. He just couldn't deny the signs. It's all about two certain people being meant for each other.
"Can't I make you understand? You're having delusions of grandeur."- Glinda, Wicked
Yup, so true... He wasn't leading her on, he had good hearted intentions to marry her... Its just that all those signs nearing his wedding couldn't help but make him want to seach for that mystery girl once more.
shareI must admit i love this film completely and i love believing in destiny and fate...but both me and my boyfriend could not help feeling sorry for Jonathans fiance...from her point of view it was meant to be the most happiest day of her life and she'd found the perfect man. I just felt really bad for her.
Although the line from his best friends pretty much summed his feelings up, where he said something like, maybe your doing all this running around trying to find a lost love because you dont want to be standing somewhere else. And so although he was going to hurt her in a very bad way he was doing the best thing for her in the long run. Its the idea of soulmate...theres only one and he truly believed sara was his.
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If you love this film you are a failure and you and your boyfriend are destined to break up if you haven't already.
shareIt is called lazy script writing. The movie dropped his fiancee without a second thought. I would have sure as *beep* married her, let me tell you. Yowsa!
shareBut did you agree with what they did to Lars? I mean he wasn't so bad when you first saw him. Then by the end, especially when he came to New York to find Sara, it seemed they just turned him into a caricature, basically. I guess they were trying to really show that Jonathan was the person she was supposed to be with, but it just seemed to me like they suddenly went overboard with Lars. And then, like you said, the contrast of Halley -- there was really no reason for him to dump her, other than he thought he was meant to be with someone else.
JP
Thank you, I thought it was just me wondering: "did I miss the part when they cancelled their wedding, and why did they exactly?" Sloppy script, as another poster noted; the film bothers to include other drivel scenes & dialogue (like, any scene with Molly Shannon) but the significant discussion to cancel the wedding is absent. I know, I know, it's so the guy-putting-away-chairs scene will be a cute surprise for Sara and for the audience.
Ofcourse he dumped her too..
This is for Allah... and it's going way out there sucka...
Maybe they should of had Lars and Halley meet.
shareWell, if it's lazy script writing, then 90% of all romantic comedies ever made have the same problem. In "Enchanted" Robert and Giselle are betrothed to someone else but end up with each other. In "Leap Year" Amy Adams is engaged to one guy and ends up with the Irish dude. In "You've Got Mail" they both have lovers, and dump them so Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan can get together. "Six Days, Seven Nights", "Bridget Jones Diary", "Working Girl" - it's a common affliction.
The problem is that in this genre of a romantic comedy you have to keep the two main characters apart - to create tension and drama, but you don't have time to pleasantly resolve all the detritus that comes from tearing the two leads away from their current boyfriends. So you just throw them overboard. ;)
In Working Girl, Melanie Griffith's man was having an affair on HER with a friend in their social circle, and she immediately left the relationship. He (Alec Baldwin?'s character) was just trying to get her back.
shareWell, she had doubts, and I think that was another sign pointing towards their breakup.
shareThe only thing wrong with Halley was that she was not Sarah.... simple as. The heart wants what the heart wants at the end of the day.
shareHoly crap, conchshell !!! Not another out-of-context usage of "at the end of the day" that doesn't apply to the end of a day. Puh-Leez, that tired phrase needs to stay in the Office BS Bingo game.
shareI don't think anything was wrong with Halley they were just not meant to be. He couldn't be with Halley when he wanted to be with Sara. It's fate.
"I'm not crazy M'Lynn, I've just been in a very bad mood for forty years"
He didn't want to spend the rest if his life with someone he wasn't in love with. I think Halley felt his lack of depth of feeling also. She saw as many signs that he wasn't in love with her as he did, in my opinion.
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