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By: WitchHazel
Date: 9/27/01 10:34:12 AM
# Replies: 46
I had the privelege of seeing a premiere for this romantic comedy that will come out next Friday, I think.
If you are a romantic who believes in FATE (which I am), and you enjoy HUMOR with your love story (which I do), and if you believe that magical relationships are usually illogical and impractical (which I do), then this is a movie for you.
It's funny, well-written, and has a diverse cast of characters. The ending was a happy one, but could have been played/written better. But everything leading up to the ending was delicious. I highly recommend it for an entertaining, light-hearted (yet semi-DEEP) romantic film experience.
No Kleenex necessary.
Response #1
By: Roxanne
Date: 9/27/01 11:36:19 AM
It also has John Cusack. Another melts-in-your-mouth actor!
Response #2
By: WitchHazel
Date: 9/28/01 8:25:27 AM
Yup. He's still got it. And his love interest is played by the lovely Kate Beckinsale (lead in Pearl Harbor), only this time she has a mouth-watering British accent.
Response #3
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 9/28/01 7:20:46 PM
The British accent is actually her own. She just plays a lot of American parts. Sort of a reverse Gwyneth Paltrow.
Response #4
By: WitchHazel
Date: 9/29/01 8:25:30 PM
I figured that. Her accent was TOO perfect.
One thing that was cool in this movie -- no sex scenes. Now, don't get me wrong or anything. I like good hot scenes, just like anybody else. But the movie focuses on "true love" and "fate" which transcends the sex thing.
Good flick!
Response #5
By: Da Sissop
Date: 9/30/01 5:10:09 PM
Sigh... chick flick... :-)
Response #6
By: sooz
Date: 9/30/01 9:39:01 PM
Every woman I know is in a rush to see this movie. I'm steering clear... maybe 'cuz I don't believe in "soul mates" OR "fate."
Response #7
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/1/01 8:06:05 AM
Oh, DEFINITELY a "chick flick", Sissop! But, I want to go on record saying that neither my hubby OR I ever like "chick flicks", but this one, we liked. Go fig'a!
Sooz. Do NOT see this movie then. You have to be a firm believer in FATE or it won't do it for ya. :-)
Response #8
By: bob
Date: 10/1/01 10:23:18 AM
fate, is that what keep kicking me in the teeth?
Response #9
By: sooz
Date: 10/1/01 12:59:33 PM
I keep think I get to make choices in life, rather than fate.
Response #10
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/1/01 2:11:13 PM
I don't think of "fate" the same as I do "destiny". With fate, yes, you get to make choices in life, and based on those choices (and your positive thinking/prayers/whatever), your "fate" will emerge.
I don't necessarily believe in "destiny".
According to Merrium-Webster:
Fate = "The principle or determining cause or will by which things in general are believed to come to be as they are or events to happen as they do."
Destiny = "A predetermined course of events often held to be an irresistible power or agency."
Response #11
By: sooz
Date: 10/1/01 3:50:13 PM
Dant it. I keep reading the "fate" definition over and I can't grasp it.
Response #12
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/1/01 4:06:47 PM
Shortened interpretation:
Fate = "The determining cause by which things are believed to happen as they do."
Extra definitions I found:
"A final result or consequence; an outcome."
"What will become of, or has become of (a person or thing); ultimate condition; destiny. To decide, fix, or seal one's fate."
This implies choice. (Except for the frequent reference to "destiny" in the definitions you sometimes see.) But when *I* talk about "fate", I'm definitely NOT talking about the pre-destined kind. I have always believed fate is the ultimate outcome of our choices, prayers, and actions.
Clear as mud?
Response #13
By: sooz
Date: 10/2/01 5:58:17 AM
Well, then, everyone has a fate. Every THING too, for that matter... it's just where you end up. So there's nothing to not believe in... my fate is where I'll be, no matter what happens. So saying I believe in fate would be like saying I believe in Tuesday...
I think. Am I close?
Response #14
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/2/01 12:55:02 PM
Sort of. It's still determined by the choices you make, or the prayers you say.
As a Christian, you can probably equate it to whether God answers prayer or not. Well, according to Christians, he ALWAYS answers prayer, but sometimes the answer is "no" for whatever reason (because you have more lessons to learn, or because you got yourself into a certain predicament, or simply because life is UNFAIR, and the answer is just "NO"). I think of "fate" the way Christians think of God's "answer".
If I strive for a desired end-result, I work toward, hope, and pray that I get that end-result. However, oftentimes I do NOT. To me, that's "fate" (or God's answer saying "no"). But I feel that there is always a REASON for yes or no. I don't believe it's all RANDOM. I still believe we are meant to STRIVE for the desired end-result. If we don't get it, then we pick a different end-result and strive for THAT.
I understand that some people think Fate (like God) just just something that HAPPENS, so they sit back and "let fate take its course". I don't believe that way at all. I believe that fate requires prayer, decisions, action, desire.
But that's ME.
Response #15
By: bob
Date: 10/2/01 2:19:10 PM
wow
Response #16
By: Roxanne
Date: 10/2/01 2:41:57 PM
Fate = Shit Happens
Destiny = Shit Happens
-Roxanne 10:2
Response #17
By: sooz
Date: 10/2/01 3:04:08 PM
I'm laughing too hard at Roxanne to think seriously about this. Will be back later.
Response #18
By: Cleotis
Date: 10/3/01 11:34:29 AM
I will see this movie, mainly because Kate Beckinsale pegs my "hottie" scale.
Response #19
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/3/01 11:59:52 AM
She's even on MY hottie scale even though I am saving myself for Val.
Response #20
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 10/3/01 12:51:38 PM
Val's knocking boots with Darryl Hannah these days, apparently.
Response #21
By: Roxanne
Date: 10/3/01 1:01:26 PM
Val Kilmer and Darryl Hannah? Oh my.
Wonder if there's a website somewhere that has a "six degrees of sexual separation" linking celebs to one another via their romantic pairings.
Response #22
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/3/01 4:43:42 PM
Well, I *know* that I'm only two or three degrees from Huey Lewis. (Not that I *want* to be.)
Gowan, you are simply a better source of celebrity news than PEOPLE magazine!
Response #23
By: Roxanne
Date: 10/3/01 9:29:23 PM
Really?! Sexual degrees or just plain separation degrees? Do tell!
Response #24
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/4/01 11:59:43 AM
Well, someone I know, knows someone ELSE who slept with Huey a reeeally long time ago. REALLY!!!
Response #25
By: sooz
Date: 10/4/01 8:54:10 PM
I interviewed Kevin Bacon and he wanted to sleep with me, I could tell.
I interviewed BJ Thomas and he pulled the chair out for me. That could be sexual.
One of my best friends used to date Henry Thomas (the boy from ET, then in All The Pretty Horses, and other stuff). I did not inqure as to any possible sexual encounters, though.
Response #26
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/5/01 10:55:08 AM
Actually, my old boyfriend (from when I was like 18 -- many moons ago) is a Paramount Pictures film publicist in L.A. He has met more stars than you can imagine. However, he is now gay (this happens to the men that I date :-)) and so I have NO IDEA which celebrities he might have been with. (But I'm sure I'm only 2 degrees from some famous people out there.) :-)
Response #27
By: Seventh of Seven
Date: 10/5/01 5:19:14 PM
lucky you--two degrees of STD
Response #28
By: sooz
Date: 10/6/01 9:01:22 AM
I'm fighting... the urge... to say... argggggggg... can't stop...
(sarcasem ON) Right. All gay people have STDs. (sarcasm OFF)
I tried to resist. I did.
Response #29
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 10/6/01 2:27:39 PM
There's a new show on PBS called 'Life 360,' and while it's a conceptual mess, there was a comedian who related the six-degrees idea to the internet. He eventually uttered this line:
"The internet is like rummaging through the mind of a schizophrenic eccentric genius. And that genius IS YOU."
Just thought I'd mention.
Response #30
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/6/01 8:13:07 PM
Huh?
Oh, I got it.
Response #31
By: Seventh of Seven
Date: 10/7/01 9:24:44 AM
i didn't mean it like THAT... just that if *I* had genital warts, and I met somebody else who had genital warts, I think it would be fun to figure out how many degrees of separation our warts had. Cousins? Uncles?
Response #32
By: bob
Date: 10/7/01 11:45:17 AM
sooz, i have told you before, henry and i were just friends. there was never any sex
Response #33
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/8/01 8:25:00 AM
SoS, I'm dying laughing over here... hahahahaha!
Response #34
By: Roxanne
Date: 10/10/01 11:03:44 AM
As far as I know I have never slept with somebody famous or who had slept with someone famous, and they tell two friends and so on and so on and so on...
Damn, nothing fun ever happens in my life!
Response #35
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/10/01 5:44:21 PM
I slept with Jesus. (Or at least that's what I kept calling him.)
Response #36
By: Da Sissop
Date: 10/10/01 8:03:21 PM
I know there's a communion joke here, but I ain't gonna do it.
Response #37
By: bob
Date: 10/11/01 11:10:50 AM
wouldn't it be more fun with someone a little less holy? guess it depends on what you are into
Response #38
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 10/11/01 11:38:57 AM
There's a comic book that's about cops who specialize in crimes that are superhero related.
Lately they've been trying to solve the murder of this one guy who apparently had a sex addiction. They end up interviewing a groupie that follows superheroes around and she talks about one girl performing an "oral favor" on one superhero and she "didn't waste a drop" (ahem). Turns out she could float and hover for several hours afterward.
So, what would happen if you did the same with Jesus? hmm?
Response #39
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/11/01 1:22:49 PM
I know from experience that you can tread water.
Response #40
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/11/01 2:34:53 PM
This modern-day Jesus (http://www.jesus.com) was NOT the guy I was talking about. But since I accidently came across this link today (thanks to my brother), I felt he was well worthy of posting here.
Check out the "Bathe With Jesus" link. Bahahahahaha!
Response #41
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/15/01 1:29:26 PM
So if you could sleep with a celebrity or a superhero, who would it be?
Response #42
By: sooz
Date: 10/15/01 3:12:15 PM
Celebrity: Kevin Bacon
Superhero: The problem here is tha any of 'em is gonna wear you out.
Response #43
By: Seventh of Seven
Date: 10/15/01 6:15:57 PM
even plasticman?
Response #44
By: bob
Date: 10/15/01 11:56:39 PM
hahahaha sos
Response #45
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/16/01 10:55:04 AM
Isn't that the POINT, Sooz?
Response #46
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 10/16/01 2:44:29 PM
I always knew there was another reason they called him Mr. Fantastic.