First, let me get out of the way that I really did enjoy this movie a LOT.
But the question I have for you isn't so much about how much you enjoyed it, but more along the lines of how it made you feel.
I enjoyed this movie very much, but I was sincerely sad when I was leaving the theater. I don't know why, but it left me on the edge of tears. I was just wondering if anyone else felt the same type of feelings.
I tend to be fairly empathetic, and I think what got to me the most was the fact that she (the main female character) would never remeber her childrens lives, or her experiences with them, and the experience of her marriage, and that seems like such a waste that my brain can hardly comprehend how someone could deal with that.
Just my thoughts, let me know what you thought, and also some other movies or characters got to you. For example, I got all emotionally beat up when Eponine (from Les Miserables) dies in the arms of a man she has always loved because she took a bullet that was meant for him.
So let the sad moments begin! (I need to feel like less of a wuss )
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
I had the opposite reaction. First of all, I was happy that no deus ex machina was used to make everybody's problems go away.
She had a problem that was never going to go away. But despite that, a way was found for her to get married, have children, and lead a full and productive life, albeit in piecemeal.
Posted by gwan (Member # 6194) on :
I try not to watch Adam Sandler movies, if all possible. I think he is a nitwit, and the geniuses who write his movies are running out of ideas.
Posted by Chaz_King (Member # 3184) on :
mr_porteiro_head: I did like the way they handled the ending, because there is no realistic way for that problem to be "solved" and I think they did a great job of wrapping it up. But I still felt sad because you know there are people with this type of condition, and one day they wake up, the look in the mirror, and they are 65, but they only remember what happened in the first 20 years or so (depending on when the damage occured), and thinking of the lost relationships, and time with kids and family just makes me sad.
gwan: Most of Sandler's movies as of late have been fairly cheesey, but this one was worth seeing to me.
Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :
I absolutely love a good bittersweet ending. It does wrench my heart, and it touches me deeply. It is the sort of thing that I find enriching.
Posted by delicate flower (Member # 6260) on :
I haven't seen "50 First Dates." But on the topic of things that make you sad, I cried on the way to work the day AFTER I read OSC's "Lost Boys." There's one line toward the end that gets to me everytime I think about it.
Also, I get emotional when I think of MacDuff at the end of "MacBeth" saying "All my pretty ones? Did you say all?" Oh, I could just cry!
BTW, I'm a literature person, not a theater person, so it's OK for me to say "MacBeth." Plus I'm not superstitious. <knocks on wood>
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
Have you ever seen the Black Adder III episode where he keeps saying MacBeth in front of the theater people?
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