What a terrible, boring, annoying movie. I only liked the last two minutes! It was terrible, my gosh. I watched it because I thought “wow there’s Sandra Bullock in it, and I like Ben Affleck enough, this could be very nice”… I was wrong, it wasn’t. I didn’t like her character at all. Future me, do not watch this again!
I’ll tell you why:
It starts with Ben (Affleck)’s grandpa having a heart-attack and then telling Ben that he was never attracted to his wife, he only married her because she was the only one who would sleep with him :-/ Apparently in this movie Ben only meets people who either hate marriage or hated being married or hated their wives… the only happy couples he meets (on the bus), he doesn’t even take notice because lost in his problems.
Ben is about to get married to Bridget (Maura Tierney) but because of this she leaves alone for her hometown in Georgia, Savannah, and he’ll get there later. He boards a plane, where he meets Sarah (Bullock) but a seagull dies into an engine and the plane crashes before even taking off. After that, Sarah finds a man who would let them drive with him to Georgia, but they get arrested and have to leave him. They take a train, two different seats, but get together again on top of it and back in again but in the wrong carriage, actually going to Chicago. They get out of the train while it’s still moving, not waiting to get off at a regular station, maybe it probably won’t stop before reaching Chicago.
It’s raining, they wear dry clothes in a supermarket (where they also play with balls and stuff like children). She gets robbed at a laundramat place because he falls asleep while he said he’d be looking after her stuff, then she convinces him to lie to get a bus ride south. They pretend to be newly married, that he’s a doctor, and to be looking for a house. When find out they run away without paying their bill, get together some money to buy a very old car and get to the wedding. There’s a storm, a tree falls on the car, and they keep running.
Now, he was an ordinary good guy, lovely, while Sarah is wild, but not in what I call a nice way. She mocks him for being too serious because he doesn’t like the man driving while smoking pot, well it sounds very reasonable to me. Not liking getting arrested also sounds very reasonable. They get together again on the train because he hears her screaming - the train stopped on a bridge, and she got on the top of the train to scream, just like that, to feel alive apparently, and he joins her… that doesn’t sound like fun to me, only crazy. People die for stupid things like that. She had a son when she was 17, and left him with the father because apparently the kid chose the father because she was never home, totally unreliable. She hasn’t seen her son in two years. She got him to pretend to be a doctor, so he was expected to help a man when he had a heart-attack (it went well, but it was just luck). She married twice already, and about to divorce again. Her advice for a good marriage: “be on her side, listen to her, don’t beat her” which is the only sane thing she’s ever said, plus to never wear socks in bed, which is silly. What if it’s cold?
When they meet Ben’s best man and Bridget’s bridesmaid at a hotel, he tries to lie his way out of it, but Sarah looks annoyed by that and keeps up her lie that they’re married, and they fight. So, every time she wants to lie it’s ok, every time he needs it it’s not ok?
They fight and shout at each other how much they are afraid of commitment or how childish she is, then he kisses her, very much confused of what he wants from his life - I’m not sure but I don’t think that they slept together, although he clearly wanted to.
They have no money so she thinks of raising some by dancing in a club, only it turns out it’s a gay bar so it’s his turn. He starts as sexy as broccoli then loosen up a bit and starts dancing, and the scene ends there…
When they get to Ben’s destination, they sit outside and he tells her that he’ll call the wedding off and asks her if he’ll find her there when he returns. He seems to have made up his mind. When he goes in, everybody has something to say, until he looks up and sees Bridget in her wedding dress looking at him. She comes out to meet him - there’s a big storm and yet they don’t meet halfway, he doesn’t go in, he waits for her where he is so they talk under the rain. He starts talking, making no sense at all, but she tells him that she heard about the hotel but she doesn’t care because she trusts him and believes him, then he tells her that seeing her up there made him fall in love again, that he’ll always love her… he goes to say goodbye to Sarah but she saw them together and understood and went away.
During the movie they also tried to trick us with Steve, Bridget’s ex boyfriend still in love with her. They probably wanted you to wonder ‘if Ben and Sarah fall for each other, maybe Bridget will pair with Steve’, and for a moment they showed Bridget being intimate with Steve, but even if she was drunk as a skunk (as they say for whatever reason) she still knew it was wrong and pulled out of it. She always thought of Ben, the entire movie.
Now, it was nice that he got married and Sarah got to her son (who was home alone, apparently), and when he saw Bridget it was a very nice, romantic scene, it was lovely really, but that’s it. What’s so fun-loving in risking your life for nothing? What’s so exciting in having nothing, moving from place to place all alone, acting like an irresponsible child? Plus I’m really fed up with these marriage-stories: once you get married the romance is over, the children suck the passion out of it, and all that stuff. Really? So nobody should have children anymore? So each and every one of you ruined their parents life?? Come on! What about sharing your life with someone who knows you, and feeling the unconditional love of a baby stretching his/her arms towards you?
Plus, love isn’t just “oh s/he’s so cute and we have so much fun together”, love is knowing each other, supporting each other, know that you can always count on someone, and what you go through together should never be forgotten for one moment of wild fun :-/
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