An amazing story
Added 1/25/2009
If you could spin a tight yarn like this, you too would be rich or at least be quite the ladies man! I had low expectations and was blown away. This movie is in my top ten favorites of all time. Well cast. Well acted. Excellent dialogue. This falls into the category of chick flick, of which I am a hapless officianado, but honestly it's all about the guys. You will like every character. When it's over you'll probably want to go to London--and you'll keep your eyes open on the way.
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a fun caricature of extroverts and introverts in love
Added 1/3/2009
A delightful romp of a romantic comedy. What makes it stand out from most other Hollywood romances about love at first sight is that it is a very funny caricature of introverts and extroverts. The movie makes absolutely no pretense about being realistic (someone falls in love in...exactly...thirty seconds - did the director time this scene?). You watch this movie for the facial expressions, the body language, the fleeting touches, for laughing at who is really paying attention, and who is not. Who puts the moves on and who does not. Who calls a woman the most times and who does not.
If you read a book like "Are you my type, Am I Yours? Relationships Made Easy Through the Enneagram" which tells you how to recognize successful and unsuccessful achievers (type 3) and romantics (type 4), and then watch this movie over again, then you will pick up on all kinds of things you don't notice the first time. There's hardly any character development (not supposed to be - they're caricatures) but in a way it is a really groundbreaking movie because it came out in 1999. Today you find all these webpages out there like "The Mind of an Introvert: Why We Act the Way We Do" "How Introverts Communicate" and "Introverts in an Extroverts World." You've got books like "The Introvert Advantage" and "The Introvert & Extrovert in Love", most of which have all come out just within the last 3-6 years. You've got the author of "Good to Great" telling us that 40% of top CEOs have introverted tendencies and wikipedia telling us how extroverts and introverts minds are really different. What is really amazing is that this movie was ahead of the curve, it came out before all these ideas became so widespread.
And perhaps it's because of all the introverts out there that this movie is rated so highly.
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Fun Movie for Anyone
Added 1/19/2008
The Very Thought of You is a sweet, cute, and fun film that has a good cast and characters you just get interested in for no apparent reason besides the fact that they are there. It does seem highly coincidental that a young woman could meet three guys who are all best friends over the course of a couple days but why let that stop you from watching the film? Suspension of disbelief is a wonderful thing.
This movie is a good romantic comedy that lets you escape an otherwise mundane morning, afternoon, or evening and I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys the type of movie that can do that. In fact, I might just go do that later.
The only problem I found with the film (but I don't let that hinder the joy I find in it) is the fact that we start the movie near the end of the story and then it flashes back to the story and how we got to the place we started with. All well and good but the film makers went with the idea of overlapping dialogue, so we have to hear some of the same dialogue (nearly a whole conversation) again. That's not a good thing in my book. It seems more like a trick on the writer's part (and Director's) to make the movie longer without actually having to do more original work. But let it be thus. As I said, this movie is still enjoyable and easily sets itself up as a winner. I myself thought of buying a one-way ticket to the first place available on 99 dollars after watching the movie. There is just something about it that makes you want adventure, romance, and a little piece of the universe to find humorous. Enjoy!
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Can you really find your soul mate in 48 hours?
Added 1/10/2007
I mainly bought this movie because I loved "I'm with Lucy" which starred Monica Potter. This movie was fun to watch. It's crazy to imagine meeting your soul mate within 48 hours and also his two best friends who also like you. I liked how the story was told in each characters point of view, which was different and unexpected. This is definitely a "chick flick" :)
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I love this movie
Added 3/26/2006
It's sweet, funny, and thoughful. Girl meets guy, and his 2 (jerky) best friends, each unaware that they've met & fallen for the same girl. She's unaware that she is also lusted after by the two best friends of the guy she's fallen for. Confusion ensues. Guy makes a life-changing choice, despite the fact that he thinks he's lost the girl, and winds up with the girl after all. The two (former) best friends are left behind, not realizing what actually happened.
A bit confusing in the way it's told: in flash-backs, but all in all a great story about finding love in the least-expected of places, and not letting one's life stagnate.
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Forever Mine is now yours in review
Added 8/2/2009
The VHS that I purchased was in great shape. It played well and had the original cover to it, which goes well with my other covered favorites. I saw this movie on Dish Network and had to see it again. So I checked this site and there it was! FANTASTIC! It was well-packaged and had a quick delivery time.
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Really really boring - yuk!
Added 4/18/2009
Ray Liotta has been in some bad movies, but this one ranks right up there among the very worst. Some reviewers enjoyed the love story, but these two would-be star-crossed lovers were incredibly unappealing to me and dull. This film didn't work for me on either level - boring love story or boring revenge story. I usually enjoy even the bad Ray Liotta movies because he can be so delightfully crazy, but he isn't quite crazy enough in this one even though he's the bad guy (he does make an attempt toward the end to come through, but it's too late by then - anybody who has stuck with the movie this far, doesn't really care by now.). If you really want a star-crossed lover's tale, surely you can dig up something more exciting than this one; and there are definitely better revenge plots out there than this one. I wanted to smack Alan and Ella by the end of the movie for being such sappy idiots. They deserve each other.
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Classic Love Story
Added 9/17/2007
Like Alan fell in love with Ella the first time he saw her face I fell in love with this movie. OK so it may a little hokie the dialogue a little lame and the story a little far fetched, I still think it was a beautiful premise. A girl can dream can't she. I first saw it in June 2007,and I think at this point in time it's my favorite movie. And Conner Reeves' rendition of "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" knocked my socks off, he he definately gives Roberta Flack a run for her money! Beautiful soulful voice I looked him up (I was not familiar with him prior to) I have searched high and low for the soundtrack to no avail. The song is played during the closing credit. If you're familiar with the song lyrics it easy to see how it works with the script in the end; "the first time ever I saw your face', "the first time ever I kissed your mouth", and "the first time ever I lay with you". Like I said farfetched maybe but a beautiful concept.
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