Date Movie Pick: No Reservations
A romantic-comedy that stars Catherine Zeta-Jones, Aaron Eckhart and the little girl named Abigail Breslin, who I first saw in the Kate Hudson film, Raising Helen.
It’s a long standing joke between teh boyfriend and I. I will drag him to see a romantic-comedy with me when there’s one showing. He doesn’t like them romantic-comedies you see. He considers the lines too tacky, cheesy, corny, or whatever makes a guy less macho I guess. Heh. But a deal’s a deal. So, off we went to see this movie last Friday night.
While in line, he bumped into an old classmate who just came out from an earlier showing. His friend gave the movie a few thumbs up, cheering teh boyfriend on. His friend gave a short, positive review (quote paraphrased), “the movie’s good! (making a thumbs up sign) it inspired me to really know how to cook, plus the fact that Catherine Zeta-Jones is in it more than compensates” Teh boyfriend’s classmate was a guy, mind you, on a date with his girlfriend.
The movie surprised teh boyfriend, I guess. Turns out, he enjoyed himself, not to mention, he got an insight or two from it. (Ha!)
Though it did dish out the usual formula in a romantic-comedy, mushy and all, it also did refresh certain theories in my head. That, more often than not, the concept of leaping is mandatory around love. And for someone who wants to control how his or her life will turn out, there will be a lot of breaking involved — esp when it means you have to accommodate another person in your life. You have to learn how to relate, compromise and cater to what the other person needs. As you do these things, it’s quite evident that change will happen and oftentimes, not in the manner that you’d expected. Things will not always go in the direction you want them to go. The whole process of realisation and acceptance will be difficult. It will hurt. But that’s part of life and life indeed isn’t always made to order.
I’m quite partial to romantic comedies, which explains the recommendation. But the movie was truly quite enjoyable.
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1 opinion for Date Movie Pick: No Reservations
Rico
Sep 30, 2007 at 3:18 am
Thanks for concretizing the lessons of the movie. :)
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