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Rediculous movie

posted 11 years ago by LaPfieffer92
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YEESH, I have never seen a couple so damn annoying and over analyzing EVERYTHING. sheesh, whats the big deal, they sleep together ooooo big deal cmon! why is this movie so popular, it was so stupid! billy crystal made a much better movie, City Slickers the following year and it trumps this movie by leaps and bounds. the whole concept was stupid, who cares if you can be friends after sex or not? that's life! stop whining and get over yourself. billy crystal tends to play the cynical new Yorker but here is just a annoying little woody allen-ish prick I wanted to slap, and that foes for meg ryans wishy washy character too. never have I wished death on a screen couple as much as this movie. they both should gotten into a huge car accident and that would have been the best ending ever!

Realism, Remakes and Unnecessary Sequels are ruining movies!

[–] Can_a_bitch_get_a_donut 11 years ago

I happen to agree with you. I just watched it today for the first time, late to the party. I didn't have huge expectations, but this movie does have a certain legacy that's impossible to ignore. Sally was just as obnoxious as every female love interest in every romcom made, so I could not relate to Harry at all, pursuing this awful woman, who slaps him and belittles him, and he continues to be nothing but a prince to her.

Then she loses her mind and throws him out of her life for having the audacity to have consensual sex with her. I've been in situations where I didn't want to sleep with a woman, and it has NEVER ended well. Women lose their MINDS when a man dares to not want to have sex when she does. I've been called every name in the book and even experienced violence in some cases on the occasions when I turned down sex.

You're damned if you do, damned if you don't. Harry was tender to her when she needed it, and then did exactly what she knows he always does, gets dressed and leaves in the morning, yet she's shocked and appalled. How dare he be there for her, give her what she wants, and then go to work in the morning? I just don't get this movie at all.

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[–] montaltodalelynn 11 years ago

Wow on both the op and the comment. I have seen this movie numerous times. Even owning the VHS tape. The movie to me was how hard relationships are and what it means to find true love.

[–] MuchToBeGratefulFor 8 years ago

How dare he be there for her, give her what she wants, and then go to work in the morning? I just don't get this movie at all.

The point is, she didn't want a one-night stand. Harry's get-dressed-and-leave routine was with women he didn't even know when he slept with them. Sally and Harry were close friends who cared for each other a great deal, and she expected the sex to lead to the next level: a romantic relationship. And that's what she wanted. Harry knew that. Instead she ended up feeling used, hence she was angry. You really don't get that??

You must be the change you seek in the world. -- Gandhi

[–] Can_a_bitch_get_a_donut 8 years ago

Sally sees Harry giving out ice cream.

Harry walks up to person, offers vanilla cone, person accepts, Harry leaves.

Harry walks up to another person, offers vanilla cone, person accepts, Harry leaves.

Sally watches this routine go on, always the same, decides she wants ice cream.

Sally walks up to Harry, receives vanilla cone, then flips out because she wanted strawberry, and Harry should have known that, the bastard.

[–] MuchToBeGratefulFor 8 years ago

Poor analogy. Harry wasn't offering an ice cream cone (of whatever flavor), he was comforting a good friend who was very upset. He wasn't there to have sex and then leave. He was there as someone who cared a great deal about her. She expected that the sex would be an extension of that caring.

And it was. THAT is why Harry is so uncomfortable the morning after, because he hadn't offered Sally a vanilla ice cream cone (in your analogy). It hadn't been a one-night stand; he had actually slept with someone he cared about. That's what he couldn't deal with and that's why he left.

You must be the change you seek in the world. -- Gandhi

[–] spookyrat1 10 years ago

... whats the big deal ...

May be it had something to do with the movie having all the right ingredients for a near perfect rom-com. Let's start with a skilled, comic director in Rob Reiner, a great script from Nora Ephron, brilliant casting with the 2 leads and the supporting actors, Harry Connick Jr performing a set of very complementary songs in the background and location cinematography designed to show New York at both its most picturesque and romance-inducing.🐭

[–] daughterofolaf 10 years ago

Redicilous [sic] post.

It wasn't me who was murdered, was it?

[–] Quentin36 10 years ago

Not as ridiculous as your spelling

[–] Blueghost 9 years ago

I have to admit, after hearing about this film for nearly 30 years, I finally broke down and watched it, and seeing it did seem anti-climactic (to coin a phrase).

[–] prplayer 8 years ago

bump

so many movies, so little time

[–] esskayess 8 years ago

How long has the OP been under the delusion that he is literate?

My people skills are fine. It's my tolerance of morons that needs work.