Message in a Bottle
Added 10/27/2009
This is a very emotional and good love story. Paul Newman and Kevin Costner do a superb job. Will watch again in the future.
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Most romantic movie ever!
Added 9/11/2009
I loved this movie. Paul Newman, Kevin Costner and Robin Wright...you can't go wrong! This is easily the most romantic movie I've ever seen. As with the actors the scenary was aesthetically pleasing and makes me want to move to the Outer Banks.
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bottled up
Added 8/11/2009
This is a completely slushy movie which ought to be better. It has all the ingredients, but falls short. It may be that it is just too gussied up -- everything about it is picture postcardy and needed more roughness to really work. It is all too beautiful. It swoops and swirls and the music swells and the sea is photogenic, and the viewer is distanced from the story accordingly. Nevertheless, and in spite of what I just said, the best thing about it by far is Robin Wright Penn, who is completely gorgeous, and in one or two scenes is quite funny and charming (she needs way more of this kind of work). Kevin Costner has a pretty thankless task, and he gets no thanks -- he's dull, dull, dull. His beach house is way sexier than he is -- many would kill for his house. The sex scenes between the two of them are not sexy: there are two nice little scenes, one in a hotel, and one at her house in Chicago that suggest that something really human could have been made of their romance -- meanwhile the overt romance scenes are hopelessly dreary and contrived -- cuddling by a fire, cute dumpings in the water, etc, etc, etc. Please. The complicating factor in all this is that Paul Newman plays his father, and is far sexier than Costner. The director obviously worried about this, so he deliberately put in a scene where Newman says how old he is, and that if he were a hundred years younger she would be in trouble. In spite of this, there is a moment when one thinks that Paul and Robin should get together, now that the son is drowned.....
There is a mythological undercurrent to the story which also makes one suspect that the sweet young first wife drowns her husband for taking up with another woman. At least it is lovely to think so.
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Message in a Bottle
Added 6/11/2009
I was completely pleased with this purchase. It was as described and arrived in a timely fashion.
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One of my favorite movies
Added 6/5/2009
Wonderful movie. Even my husband enjoyed watching it. At one point though I cried so hard my cat ran out of the room.
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Message in a Bottle
Added 10/27/2009
This is a very emotional and good love story. Paul Newman and Kevin Costner do a superb job. Will watch again in the future.
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Most romantic movie ever!
Added 9/11/2009
I loved this movie. Paul Newman, Kevin Costner and Robin Wright...you can't go wrong! This is easily the most romantic movie I've ever seen. As with the actors the scenary was aesthetically pleasing and makes me want to move to the Outer Banks.
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bottled up
Added 8/11/2009
This is a completely slushy movie which ought to be better. It has all the ingredients, but falls short. It may be that it is just too gussied up -- everything about it is picture postcardy and needed more roughness to really work. It is all too beautiful. It swoops and swirls and the music swells and the sea is photogenic, and the viewer is distanced from the story accordingly. Nevertheless, and in spite of what I just said, the best thing about it by far is Robin Wright Penn, who is completely gorgeous, and in one or two scenes is quite funny and charming (she needs way more of this kind of work). Kevin Costner has a pretty thankless task, and he gets no thanks -- he's dull, dull, dull. His beach house is way sexier than he is -- many would kill for his house. The sex scenes between the two of them are not sexy: there are two nice little scenes, one in a hotel, and one at her house in Chicago that suggest that something really human could have been made of their romance -- meanwhile the overt romance scenes are hopelessly dreary and contrived -- cuddling by a fire, cute dumpings in the water, etc, etc, etc. Please. The complicating factor in all this is that Paul Newman plays his father, and is far sexier than Costner. The director obviously worried about this, so he deliberately put in a scene where Newman says how old he is, and that if he were a hundred years younger she would be in trouble. In spite of this, there is a moment when one thinks that Paul and Robin should get together, now that the son is drowned.....
There is a mythological undercurrent to the story which also makes one suspect that the sweet young first wife drowns her husband for taking up with another woman. At least it is lovely to think so.
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