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Kate & Leopold (2001)
This movie projects the worst possible message to women
Talk about the wrong message for women of the 21st century - this is it! Here's Meg Ryan playing a very successful business woman. Maybe she's not had great success in past relationships, but hey! there are plenty of non-successful women in the same boat. At least she has a life - she knows what she wants and goes for it. AND she doesn't give in to the sexual harassment her boss attempts to guarantee her the promotion she wants so dearly.
So, she gets the promotion - head of the New York office! And what does she do? She throws it away in a heart-beat to go live in the 19th century with a guy she's known for a week, and spent one evening and Saturday with. Yeah, that's a great place for a go-getter business woman! They'll be sure to welcome her with open arms in the business world of the 1800s. After the starry-eyed infatuation wears off, I'd hate to see the life these two manage to carve out!
Message: finding a man is way more important than any success a woman may find in business. A woman's place is with her man no matter what she has to give up for him. YUK!! Give me Legally Blonde over this movie any day! Altho Reese Witherspoon started out thinking her life revolved around some guy, she came to realize that who she was mattered much more than what (she thought) he wanted her to be. Much better message - in order to be happy, find yourself, then the right man will come along.
Now besides this (as if this yucko message to women wasn't bad enough!) there was one major flaw which kept me distracted the whole movie. Here's this inventor from the 1800's (he supposedly invented the elevator) suddenly thrust into the 21st century. Does he show even the slightest curiosity about all the innovations from the past 100+ years? The only item he seemed interested in was the toilet. Guess they thought they should go for the lowest humor possible on this movie. Why wasn't he interested in the television, telephone, answering machine, cars, computers, etc. His main concern was with being polite. How shallow can a guy be? I can't begin to see what Meg Ryan saw in him.
I give this movie a huge thumbs down.
K-PAX (2001)
long and slow
I found this movie to be long and slow moving. Was Prot really an alien? Or was he a tragic split personality who's alternate personality took over completely when the real world became too much for the already weak first personality to handle? The only redeeming value of this movie was the interesting discussion afterwards to decide which was the case. However sitting through this long film, and wondering when it would finally end, was not worth it.
Fausto (1993)
A cute little movie with some laughs
Just to clear up a couple of things from the previous review - à la mode literally means "in fashion", NOT "with ice cream". And Fausto was the main character's first name, not last name.
I thought this was a cute movie with a few laughs and would recommend it for some light entertainment. Yes, some of it was cliché and predictable, but so what? The characters were likeable and I was entertained. I got my $1.99 rental fee's worth!