I've loved this movie for so many years, but the ending was complete nonsense to me and lowered my score 9 to 8. There's no way his girlfriend would stay married to the new guy, were this a true story she would divorce and get back with him.
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Once you stop being a neckbeard virgin, get back to us. In the real world people live with the cards they're dealt. Not your imaginary jerkoff fairytale.
shareThere's no way his girlfriend would stay married to the new guy, were this a true story she would divorce and get back with him.
"You are the love of my life" ?
shareUnderstood, I hear ya. I know she said it in the car but I always got the feeling that it was more out of guilt than anything else. Nothing that preceded this scene convinced me that these two were meant to be together or even loved each other all that much.
Maybe my issue is that it was just that point in their relationship that we get to see, when they were both preoccupied with their own careers, the holidays and not with one another as much. Plus I didn't think that Hanks and Hunt had much on-screen chemistry, which also helped me form my opinion on their relationship. There's something to be said for moving on, but if Chuck were truly the love of her life, she would have left. Almost doesn't really count for much.
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To me she just seems like the sort of person who lets herself get tossed around by circumstances rather than following her true desires.
That line always got me too. As Chuck said at the dinner she had been with a lawyer and it didn't work out so why would this have a whole lot of chance if he's flying around the world at Christmas time and they're not even married yet!
shareMarriage in the end has to be about practicalities. Romance is fine but two people have to decide where they are going to live, are they going to have kids or not, if so what religion will they be, etc.
As Joe DiMaggio said about his marriage to Marlyn Monroe, " Loving someone and living with them are two different things. ". Joe liked to stay home and watch some TV and then go to bed early, Marlyn liked to stay out all night and then sleep all day.
Your lifestyles and goals have to be reasonably compatible with each other, else wise nothing but friction will occur.
When you have kids you are essentially giving up your life. If you become a mother too early ( my grandmother became a mother of five boys (adopted) when she was only 16 years old ) then you can most definitely become a very bitter person when you see peers having fun that you can not. My grandmother was essentially a very bitter and unpleasant person the rest of her life.
That's why I advised my nieces to travel and try to have some fun and adventure ( as much as reasonably possible ) before they married and settled down. Your kids if you have them have to come before your own needs and wants, there is nothing more destructive to a kid that having his/her parents divorce.
When and if you have kids, it's no longer about you, it's all about them.
I understand the need or want for the happy ending, especially for chuck if not for both. We watch him experience this tragedy and make it through just to find out she's moved on.
I'm sure the first time I watched this I felt come on how can she not just be brought back to all that love for him and run away together!
But I have to remind myself. He wasn't just missing for years. They had a funeral for him! That's big, that's final and I'm sure what that did to her emotionally is what really made it difficult to imagine reuniting.
She didn't just accept that he was gone. She accepted that he was dead and I'm sure that was a long process for her which forced her to move on emotionally
It's called moving on. It happens all the time. Sure she loved him and probably always will, but she met another man and had a child with him. It would be pretty rotten and selfish of her to just forget all that because an old boyfriend came back to life. I love that they don't get back together. That's how life is.
I don't like the ending because it feels rushed and weak in comparison to the rest of the film. I wanted to see Chuck dealing with society and life again and not weeping over Kelly.
-Di
I find it more selfish that she will be forced to live with someone she doesn't really love while giving up on being happy.
shareWho is forcing her?
She has a kid, a husband, a new life now. She stays behind with her family because that is what she wants. Because that is her life now. She is not forced to do so, dude.
The selfish thing to do would be leaving her husband.
Yeah, they acknowledged that they were the loves of their respective lives...but that is in the past and everything is different for them now.
And she IS happy. That"s why she stays.
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"Baird? Go out there and be a star!"
She is not happy, she stays out of obligation/for her kid. We all know in real life this would never happen, she would divorce and get back with the guy.
shareDude, no.
She IS happy.
Chuck recognises this. It's why he returns the watch. It's why he drives her back to her house when they are sitting in the car in the rain. They could have just left then and there. But she doesn't want to leave. She stays. With her kid. With her husband. With her family. She isn't forced.
Everything is different for them than it was before the plane crash. She let go of him a few years ago and at the end when Chuck returns to the woman with the angel wings package he finally is letting go of Kelly as well.
There doesn't always have to be a happy ending to every movie just because you want it that way.
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"Baird? Go out there and be a star!"
Did the movie ever indicate she was unhappy? Even so, divorce sucks for kids. Even if she were unhappy, it's an honorable and unselfish action to stay for the happiness of her spouse and child.
The problem with this world is people are selfish. They divorce because they seek happiness. Then many marry and divorce again and guess what? It wasn't the spouse's problem all along....it was THEM! and they're still not happy and divorce again. Ruin another life. Because they're just selfish person.
People suck. Dogs rule!
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shareShe loved him. However, she couldn't destroy the lives of her kid and husband because of it. They were soul mates but fate had prevented their reunion. They did the right thing.
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