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A look at RUNAWAY BRIDE
I rememeber watching PRETTY WOMAN when it came out and thinking, "Gosh, this is what romance is about!" Since then... well I've done an awful lot of growing up and... well, it's sort of the teeny-bopper love thing, not the way older romance is. Which I guess is why I liked movies like the Meg Ryan movies, MEET JOE BLACK, CITY OF ANGELS, etc... I'm curious to see how this Richard Gere/Julia Roberts romance film... some Nine years after PRETTY WOMAN... and see if it has matured at all. Here's the first look at this film which comes out July 30th... Slight spoilers follow...
I just saw the pre-screening for Runaway Bride with Richard Gere and
Julia Roberts (not the sequel to Pretty Woman, although it had may
allusions to it). It was very good! It also stars Rita Wilson, Joan
Cusack, Laurie Metcalf--all really good performances. The chemistry
w/roberts and gere is great, it's also really funny.
It's about an editorial writer in NYC (gere) who is always writing
last minute columns before the deadline and he meets this guy (who
happens to be groom #3 dumped by Roberts' character Maggie) in a bar who
tells him about this woman in this small town who is always leaving guys
at the alter before the wedding. So Gere exaggerates the story and
writes about Maggie, this "man-eater" who has dumped 8 guys at the
alter, etc. Yet, Maggie (Roberts) sees it in the paper and writes to the
editor listing all the lies in the article, etc (she had only ditched 3
guys and not 8 at the alter). Anyway, Gere gets fired for writing these
lies and an apology in the paper is sent to Maggie.
Gere then decides to go to Maggie's small town called Hale to
investigate wether she will end up marrying groom #4 who she is
currently engaged to. Gere interviews all 3 past grooms and the
townspeople of Hale for the article he plans to write after (according
to what he believes) Maggie dumps groom #4. Inevitably, Gere and
Roberts fall in love--don't want to give away the ending but it's unique
and quirky. Overall, the film is very good--really funny and
entertaining. There are some "jumpy" scenes in the beginning, but
overall it's really good. It's similar to Pretty Woman and My Best
Friend's Wedding--a feel good movie.
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but seriously, am i the only person in the world who wants to punch julia roberts? i hate sandra bullock even more. if they were any cuter and more look-at-how-adorable-i-am id vomit. Thats why i love THE PLAYER so much--every single moron in that movie wants Julia Roberts to be in THEIR movie. Since it was a satire, i liked it, as if Altman shared my disdain for Julia.
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Saying this movie is 'good' really
doesn't say much when you can smell the $$$ -
I don't want to punch her, I want to pull a "Rasputin" on her. I want her poisoned, stabbed, and drown. If the Rasputin doesn't work, I'll shoot her, blow her up, and drop the corpse in acid. That ought to do it. -Loki
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As a general rule, I only enjoy romantic films if Meg Ryan stars in them and the script is halfway decent. Runaway Bride is a film that was made to pull Richard Gere's career out of the crapper and generate large amounts of cash. Now, Notting Hill looks like a very promising film in that Four Weddings and a Funeral mold. It looks more grown-up, and thanks to Richard Curtis, it is probably much better.
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i must concur with LaneMyers - this could be good in the right hands but it simply reeks of a marketing opportunity reuniting "America's Favourite Romantic Comedy Couple (TM)". The presence of Laurie "Watch Me Pull Some Faces" Metcalf only confirms this is a rabid dog. With fleas.
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You all are nerds who want to see this but don't have a woman to see it with. You all are punk ass bitches.
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Which means, I'll be going to see it. It's difficult to explain why we (women) like these things. We know they're absolutely moronic trash - but yet, we go. There are elements (clothes, hair styles, homes, cute guys) that are completley superficial, yet we crave them. It's like a trip to the mall when you have a lot to spend. These movies are a genre unto themselves, and as such, there is a range of good to bad. This one will probably fall in the good range. (Remember boys, "good" within the genre). The only time you guys are required to see these films is when you're dragged there by your significant female. So, unless you're forced to go - don't worry about it. Just think of it as a necessary, occasional female diversion - like going to the beauty parlor.
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..but the You've Got Sleepless Mail In Seattle movies make my teeth ache. Different strokes, eh? I think I'll just wait for The Mothman Prophecies...less Julia Roberts - more Mothmen!
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I knew the use of the "we" generalization might cause some problems. I meant "we" as in those of us women who enjoy superficial, yet pretty movies. While these are certainly not the only movies I see, and not even my favorite genre, I do enjoy them when they're well (or badly, depending on your outlook) done.
But I know what you're saying. Nice blending of titles, by the way. -
I will never get over the pathetic way our Puritan-influenced Madonna/Whore complex having society fawned over pretty woman - a bad pic. that took the Prost. with a heart of gold to unknowable extremes of unbelievability. Wake up, folks! Prostitution is not glamorous, syphilis and herpes and John-born babies are the reality, not Julia Robert's giant toothy grin and unknown-Texas girl's borrowed body on the Movie poster! A feel-good movie? Yes, in the same way Das Boot is a buddy comedy. I have little hope for this flick do anything else but perpetuate stereotypes for those immature men who can't resolve what their mommies told them from what their loins demand!
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I will never get over the pathetic way our Puritan-influenced Madonna/Whore complex having society fawned over pretty woman - a bad pic. that took the Prost. with a heart of gold to unknowable extremes of unbelievability. Wake up, folks! Prostitution is not glamorous, syphilis and herpes and John-born babies are the reality, not Julia Robert's giant toothy grin and unknown-Texas girl's borrowed body on the Movie poster! A feel-good movie? Yes, in the same way Das Boot is a buddy comedy. I have little hope for this flick do anything else but perpetuate stereotypes for those immature men who can't resolve what their mommies told them from what their loins demand!
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..traaaaack, seems like I should be gettin' somewhere, somehow I'm neither here nor there.
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