Suspend your disbelief and pay a visit to the Lake House
Added 11/13/2009
The movie "The Lake House" is certainly a movie that challenges you to suspend your disbelief but it seems a majority of people seem incapable of doing so for this movie, yet are able to believe that a mystical force controls all things in the Universe (Star Wars), that a man can fly (Superman) or, gasp, that a truck can turn into a robot (Transformers).
For me this movie is pure fantasy and I have no problem taking it for what it is - namely a romantic movie with a supernatural element. I don't sit there and try and figure out how or why the mailbox works the way it does just like I don't sit there and wonder how the Enterprise reaches warp speed (Star Trek) or the man outraces the Sun (Mummy Returns).
The plot is basically a love story and rather than two people falling in love over the internet and e-mail they instead do it the old fashioned way and fall in love through snail mail. However the device of the time difference means that the two cannot simply meet face-to-face in a traditional date. The plot reminded me of a similar plot device in a TV movie I saw where two lovers corresponded the same way across centuries with the letters magically appearing in an old cabinet.
Take the movie for what it is and pick up this enjoyable, charming romantic movie on Blu-ray for under $10 (as of Nov. 13, 2009). The audio and video quality are far from steller, but they are better than on an upconverted DVD.
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Best Movie ever!
Added 11/11/2009
Can't say any more than this is the best movie I've ever seen. I'm ordering it in Blu-Ray cause I want to make sure I always have it.
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Romantic fantasy
Added 10/10/2009
It's one of my favorite romantic fantasies. Reeves and Bullock are perfect of a romance that exists in two alternate time periods one in the past, the other in the present as they converge to a rapidly emerging future. Can't reveal the ending or it will spoil the story, but it leaves you with a wondering sense of the power of choices and coincidences in our lives.
---Wilma
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PEOPLE PLZ READ!
Added 8/19/2009
The Lake House is a FANTASY romantic movie! Keyword people: FANTASY. All the things in the movie where 2 people fall in love across time is impossible of coarse. But if you stop analysing the movie or have questions about it such as " that is not possible" you will not understand the movie. The main thing about this movie is that 2 people are lonely and have finally met their love of their life and want to be together!You already know that this movie is Fantasy so therefore, dont be asking questions, just see it and pretend that those fantasy things do not excist. In the end this movie is so lovable and is worth buying and seen it over and over again. Dont ask questions because they will never be answered! its fantasy! just watch the movie period! Dont be stupid spending time hating this movie cuz its impossible to understand or know it cant be for reals!!!!!!!! keyword: Fantasy!
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Great plot, but...
Added 8/13/2009
I'll never understand why directors take a great plot, good acting, and all-round good movie and feel they need to stick in people living together who aren't married and camera shots of a woman's chest! Those two events if deleted from the movie would have had NO impact whatsoever. Good grief...is it simply that movie viewers today are too stupid to enjoy a movie for its quality alone? I don't think so.
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I should have had a premonition before I wasted my money
Added 11/21/2009
I'm a big Sandra Bullock fan, but she's let me down more than once- SPEED 2 comes to mind, and this movie too.
I have to admit that she didn't have much to work with, but she produced this turkey, so she has no excuse.
There is really nothing going for this film, even the rip-off of Phillip Glass' FACADES score. The plot is confused, meant to be so as to build suspense, but there is really no suspense, and by the time the movie ends you've figured it out and don't really care.
Sandra, and you, can do better.
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United We Fall
Added 11/20/2009
I watched this film tonight. At least I think it was tonight. But instead maybe I had a dream I watched the film, but won't actually watch it until Wednesday night. In any case, blame it on the roses, blame it on the wind but I'm not sure I completely followed what all was going on. Spoilers ahoy. Read on if you've already seen the movie.
As far as I can gather, there seem to have been multiple possible histories competing with one another for actuality. In one possible history, Sandra Bullock is estranged from her husband and they have a crumbling loveless marriage, though he does wind up falling all over himself to give her some head.
In another possible history, which seems not actually to have occurred, a sinister psychiatrist is drugging Bullock with... Lithium? Did the screenwriter research this at all? Lithium is not an antipsychotic, nor is it very widely prescribed for people whose heads are coming apart so bad they don't know whether they're Hall or Oates. But Lithium, nevertheless, is most sinisterly prescribed. I think the same shrink may have sinisterly suggested magnesium supplements as well, in a vaguely suspicious barely concealed French-Canadian accent no less. Ah well. But it was not to be, apparently. Nor was it quite to be that Bullock gets popped into the loony bin for slicing her daughter's face up.
However the film-makers do at least supply a blooper reel featuring an assortment of mystics culled from the north of Britain ("I sez to me Harry, I sez, Don't let's tonight... it gives me a rum go. An' that seam night the pub caeved in on isself, teakin' the souls of thirty football supporters down wi' er."; "Yar... I seen 'im: the Loch Ness Monster, sure as'm standin' 'ere!"; "I seen the trein go off the rails, real bloody-like, joos like it duz in me bleedin' paintin's.")
But getting back to the movie, in the end, it does seem to have seemingly come to pass that hubby gets a bionic haircut from a jack-knifing gasoline truck... though one can't be fully sure this really happened. After all, the movie in its entirety could have been a bad dream that the viewer... I mean Bullock, yes, Bullock, had and was now in the process of being disabused of as she walks out of the theater... I mean prepares to sell the house her husband bought with that raise he got for being promoted at whatever company he worked for selling whatever it was he sold. It does indeed seem that the house her husband bought for her didn't bring them much happiness, and the poignancy of the movie resides in this subtext of family life gone awry and no possibility of touching those we hold dear.
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Very Good
Added 11/9/2009
this is a very good movie sandra bullock is awesome in this movie. i love this movie and so will you. I recommend this movie to everyone
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