I don't know. I think the dialogue is a little on the witty and not straight in your face comedy stuff, that I loved, but many may have just missed it or it's not their cup of tea.
shareWhy is it so difficult to understand it is rating determined by IMDb's special formula or something which collects ratings done by numerous voters and assign a specific rating..
There's nothing we can do about it other than just accept it.
It's not difficult to understand. I am perfectly aware that the score is an average based on members' votes.. But that low score comes about because lot of members actually rate it far lower than 7 out of 10, which is what I find surprising. I was hoping to initiate a debate on the quality of the movie as a romcom, compared to other films in the same genre.
shareHere's why i rated it a 7.
I found the movie entertaining and enjoyed the characterizations, various jokes and one-liners and all..but throughout the movie i had this 'been there seen that' feeling..maybe its because i didnt see the movie back when it was originally released..in fact i saw the movie yesterday and i have seen a few rom-coms before..
And I didnt find the movie plot very original because comparisons with Woody Allen and Annie Hall was unavoidable.
Also another plot point that bothered me was the attitude of Harry and Sally after his first night with Sally..I couldnt understand their behavior at all and i felt that it was a contrivance to initiate a conflict in the plot.
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So there you are..
This movie is pure garbage, I rated it a 4. After seeing it several times I came to the conclusion it is so dated, so far removed from reality, and with the most utterly unlikeable characters, my rating was quite generous. I also agree it is a Woody Allen rip off.
shareI wouldn't say that it was ' pure garbage '. When I saw it in the theater, I'm pretty sure I liked it a lot. However, that was back when I was one of the ' American Sheeple '. I no longer am. For me, the true sign of a good film is whether it still holds up for me several decades later. The only way I would sit through it now is if Marisa Tomei promised to sleep with me after we watched it. I would be generous if I gave it a ' 6 ' now. Unless of course, if Marisa asked me to ( hey, if George Costanza could get to meet her, I can at least dream ).
My favorite modern day romantic comedy is one from '98, called ' Next Stop Wonderland '. Very intelligently made. Deserving of something much higher than it's ' 6.7 ' rating. My all time fave is ' It Happened One Night '.
that's nothing, i'd watch back to back movies of Julia Roberts if Marisa Tomei promised to sleep with me
so many movies, so little time
Let`s see... maybe it might have to do with there being not one single funny moment in this alleged comedy? Or perhaps the general dull eventlessness of the ultra-thin screenplay, which asks us to follow these completely uninteresting, navel gazing bourgeois as-holes for more than 90 excruciating minutes? Or that the patience is further tested by the superficial, audience pandering cutesiness and self conscious quirkiness, as well as the safe, carefully middle-of-the-road sensibilities of it all, topped off with a predictably schmaltzy finale... plus the horror is further amplified by having to look at this Crystal dude`s mug that looks like horse`s ass and endure his ponderous, wooden acting (Meg Ryan is mostly quite tolerable, however). So, despite the excellent production design and Sonnenfeld`s solid cinematography, this is one truly awful hackjob. Adequate rating would be about 2/10.
"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan
You state it much more eloquently than I, cheers. Also, knowing the "couples interviews" are all completely fabricated just puts the final nail in the coffin for me.
shareI find a lot of people simply don't like sarcastic humor and Billy Crystal is the king of sarcasm. Personally I don't like a lot of sarcasm since it's juvenile but Billy Crystal's style is more fun and less arrogant so I enjoy it. This movie also brings back a lot of memories from my college days when I first saw it in the theater.
shareMaybe just me, but I found both "Sleepless in Seattle" and "You've Got Mail" superior to this. Maybe it's just that Hanks plays better than Crystal, or that Ryan had matured her act a bit, or that the Ephron/Reiner team had sharpened their act for the later ones. But I think the real flaw in this is that Crystal's cynical humor doesn't mesh with romantic comedy they way Hanks' golly-gee-whiz acts does.
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