You've Got Raped!

[profundis]

Does anyone else hate this movie? Not only is it sugar-frosted evil -- the giant corporate asshole gets the girl *and* her cherished livelihood? -- but its loaded with product placement for just such a giant asshole corporation (AOL, and more if you take the Fox Books in the movie as a proxy for Borders / B&N).

I felt cheated when I saw this, and with good reason. Tom Hanks' character doesn't deserve the sympathy that the movie tries to slather him with. Even though Meg Ryan's character somehow manages to love the guy that crushed her emotionally and fiscally, he never repents nor makes amends for the grievous wrong he inflicted on her. I guess she is so traumatized from the whole ordeal that any port in a storm looks good. If he really loved her the very first thing he should have done after finding out her true identity is get down on his knees and beg for her forgiveness. The second thing is whatever she wished by way of making amends (like making the kids section of every Fox Books into "the Shop Around The Corner" for instance).

But no, he justs comes in and somehow makes it all ok by being nice after being a total dickhead and she just sucks it up like a good little submissive girl. Running that store was just too much work anyway.

Prettying the movie up with all the "New York In Autumn Glow" stuff doesn't pay off the movie's emotional debt.

Foul. Foul, I say.

Comments

[perlcub]

But he's got a cute doggie!

[durabear]

Actually, what bothered me more than the backstory was that after 2 hours of him manipulating her... convincing her that they guy she was talking to was married, or gay, or had a huge secret, or was fat... then as the guy online being indignant when she questions him... after 2 hours of playing with her mind from both sides... when she finds out HE is the guy she was talking to all along she doesn't haul off and beat the fuck out of him in the street.

That's what she SHOULD have done.

[jefferzephyr.livejournal.com]

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Tom_Hanks

[profundis.livejournal.com]

Even better:
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/You%27ve_got_mail

[bearnight.livejournal.com]

It's just product placement for AOL

[geekhound.livejournal.com]

It is a weird myth to teach women how they should be...somehow just soooo grateful anyone would love them that it's okay that their business would be squashed by the man whom they love. After all, women can't be competent business owners, right? blarg!

Why do we teach people to fail like that...or that it's either a choice between their happiness/love interest or their career? Reminds me of Janeway on Voyager. Why can't she have a boyfriend AND still be Captain?

[colicub.livejournal.com]

The thought of anything vaguely romantic involving Tom Hanks makes me violently sick, so I have avoided this film. And look to be doing so for as long as possible.

Actually, scratch that. The thought of anything involving Tom Hanks (that isn't Toy Story or Big) makes me violently sick.

[philmanstl.livejournal.com]

I am a sucker for romantic comedies, and this one really made that statement true!
When that sappy rendition of Over the Rainbow strted I covered my ears in the theater and said "Oh give e a break!"
I felt used and kinda icky afterwards.