Archive through March 02, 2003
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Unfaithful:
Archive through March 02, 2003
Hummingbird | Tuesday, February 04, 2003 - 09:54 am     I haven't read anything on this movie here. I just saw it on satellite PPV. Both Diane Lane and Richard Gere are excellent here and I don't usually care for him. Anyone contemplating an affair, thinking it would be harmless, should see this movie first. Wow! |
Brenda1966 | Thursday, February 06, 2003 - 12:48 pm     ITA, really good film. I love Gere and this was a different role for him. I'm still hoping Lane gets an Oscar nomination for this one -- she deserves it. |
Grooch | Thursday, February 06, 2003 - 12:54 pm     I started watching it, but it was moving to slow for me, so I turned it off. |
Brenda1966 | Thursday, February 06, 2003 - 03:06 pm     Grooch, may I ask what gender you are? I'm thinking you're a guy, but I also thought Fruitbat was a guy for the longest time... |
Rabbit | Thursday, February 06, 2003 - 03:16 pm     Brenda, I volunteer to frisk Grooch and give you a gender report .... no wait .. she has a latin husband, he might not understand my friendly gesture ... ummm ... sorry Brenda, can't help you. |
Wink | Thursday, February 06, 2003 - 03:34 pm     ROFL |
Grooch | Thursday, February 06, 2003 - 06:47 pm     Silly Rabbit! Lol! Brenda. I am female, guilty as charged. I came upon Unfaithful on PPV one very early morning last week. I decided to watch it based on the description of Diane Lane's performance. I just felt the beginning was dragging, and I felt her going up to that guy's apartment to get a bandaid completely unbelievable. Who the heck would go and follow a complete stranger up to their apartment, alone, in NYC? Also, even though the guy was cute, he was creeping me out by getting to personal to fast. He was setting all my warning bells off. I kept mentally screaming at her to run out of that building. Also, how could she keep coming up with so many excuses to keep going into the city? And who the heck would make out in a resatuarant in the city and make out with their lover? I think you have more of a chance of running into someone you know (and not even realizing that you did) in a city than a town. She had such a nice family and house and everything a person could ever want, that I found it hard to believe she would take up with a complete stranger that she never knew. I would find it more believable that she would take up with a man that she already knew, who lived near her and was most likely married also. With a title called Unfaithful, I just know she is going to be caught and it is not going to be a pretty scene. I was dreading it. She was throwing it all away for nothing. Maybe if she had a horrible, abusive husband, I might have had some sympathy for her. I kept thinking that Diane Lane was Ashley Judd. They have a very similiar look, and I found that disconcerting. I think that, and the fact that I found the guy just plain creepy, really turned me off to the whole movie. The movie was depressing to me, just like Monster's Ball. Maybe I will try watching the second half another time. But don't hold your breath. |
Juju2bigdog | Thursday, February 06, 2003 - 08:59 pm     Is this movie just on PPV? Or has it been in the theaters? I saw a number of trailers for it at the movies and then don't recall it ever being at the box office. Bad Hare. Bad, bad, Hare. |
Hummingbird | Thursday, February 06, 2003 - 10:44 pm     It's on PPV. Grooch, the country is full of women who think they are unfulfilled and engage in this kind of dangerous behavior. I have a friend who has the greatest husband and little boy that anyone could ever ask for and she has been contemplating a fling with an old college flame who has resurfaced. I told her she was nuts. I don't think she'll do it but I told her to rent this movie and get that nonsense out of her head fast! |
Grooch | Friday, February 07, 2003 - 07:12 am     I saw the rest of the movie this morning. Oh, my! Very disturbing movie. I'll post my thoughts later. |
Webkitty | Friday, February 07, 2003 - 07:48 am     I was going to wait for it to come to HBO, I pay too much for premium digital cable as it is. That ppv option is dangerous! But, I might just give in, especially if she gets nominated for this next week. ...naughty little Rabbit... lol. |
Brenda1966 | Friday, February 07, 2003 - 08:55 am     Thanks for the feedback Grooch, I look forward to hearing what you have to say now that you've seen the whole film. One thing I liked about the film was that her husband was great and her family life was great, so why on earth cheat? I, too, would never go into a strange man's apartment, but I know my sister would, especially if the man was this cute! I think there was something very alluring about this mysterious stranger and it had nothing to do with being unhappy in her life. It was sort of like living out a fantasy. Being seen out in public with him was careless, but I think it had to do with being caught up in the moment and this adolescent fantasy and feeling like you're invincible. I think Diane Lane is underrated as an actor and I hope we see more of her. |
Webkitty | Friday, February 07, 2003 - 09:20 am     She was great in A Walk on the Moon. Added value, Viggo Mortensen was the man she had the affair with in that movie. I think he is underrated too. It sounds like the same premise, she didn't go out looking to have an one, it just happened. She had much angst over it, and it was thought provoking. Ummmm, is she being type cast? |
Hermione69 | Tuesday, February 11, 2003 - 01:30 pm     Okay, Diane Lane's acting was superb. Got that said. Now free to say I hated this movie. Terribly, horribly, dreadfully depressing. A friend of mine said it was a very sexy movie. I was not anticipating the violence. Even the sex had undercurrents of violence and left me feeling dirty. I will never watch this movie again. The best part for me was noticing that the little boy and the other kids in the school play were using real sign language. |
Brenda1966 | Tuesday, February 18, 2003 - 09:40 am     Interesting Hermione, I didn't sense violence in the sex although I'd describe it as a bit "raw". Grooch -- I'm still waiting for your review! |
Hermione69 | Tuesday, February 18, 2003 - 09:55 am     I liked "A Walk on the Moon" much better. |
Dahli | Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 02:39 pm     There were so many things both big and little in this movie that didn't make sense to me which took away from the experience... who would wear spike heels and a skirt to shop for birthday supplies on a day you KNOW has winds of 90 miles an hour??!!! Who would have an 'encounter' in a public bathroom like that with people you know sitting mere feet away?? Why would you give someone a gift that was so recognizable and part of a collection??? These are piddly issues I know, but unfortunately I have been involved in a situation similar to this and even so none of these things made sense to me. |
Hummingbird | Friday, February 21, 2003 - 09:00 pm     1. Spike heels -- Not me but then I am older than Diane Lane. 2. Not me! But the excitement of the moment overpowered common sense. 3. In New York City who would think the two would meet? She probably didn't think Hubby would have her followed. This could have happened. |
Bananaclip | Friday, February 28, 2003 - 08:42 am     One question, did he turn himself in at the end? I noticed that the police station was right next to them when they were stopped at the light. |
Muse | Friday, February 28, 2003 - 11:30 pm     SPOILER alert...SPOILER alert... I think that's left up to the viewer to decide, Bananaclip. |
Curiouscat | Saturday, March 01, 2003 - 03:15 am     Bananaclip, I rented it on DVD and in the special features area the alternate ending answers your question. |
Grooch | Saturday, March 01, 2003 - 03:52 am     Geesh! Now after watching this disturbing movie that I never want to see again, I have to go rent it to know the ending? Never gonna happen. Curiouscat, my email address is in my profile. Will you be kind enough to email me the ending? Thanks. |
Crazydog | Saturday, March 01, 2003 - 07:24 am     I'm going to talk about plot points, so if you haven't seen this movie and don't want SPOILERS then please skip this post. I rented this movie yesterday, because I wanted to see what the hubbub was all about concerning Diane Lane's performance. I thought the movie was terrible, and I didn't think she was all that great. I don't see how her performance was Oscar worthy, and I would have given her nomination to Meryl Streep for "The Hours" instead. This movie was so ridiculous, from the whole windy thing in the beginning to the guy's apartment to the diner encounter to the snow globe. They live in the suburbs, and we're supposed to believe it's windy all across the entire New York metro area? The guy is "borrowing" the apartment from his friend, yet it seems like he has moved 10,000 books in there permanently? And what woman, alone on a deserted street, would even consider going inside some stranger's apartment? Especially in New York of all places! I don't understand why there wasn't a comment from her as to their age differences. And I thought her acting was dreadful at times. The scene on the train when she is leaving the city and is reliving their sexual encounter in flashbacks - there was one point where I couldn't tell if she was laughing or crying. The ending - the director says he made it purposely ambiguous so you could decide for yourself what he does. In the deleted scenes, he turns himself into the police. Frankly, I think the entire premise of the movie is ridiculous and I think the ending where he turns himself in should have been kept. The way they left it in the final cut essentially says, have an affair, kill the guy in a jealous rage, cover everything up, and then pretend none of it all happened and leave the country. Ridiculous. Then again, the movie is condoning adultery so I suppose along the same lines it would condone murder as well. I also hated the little kid (Dewey from Malcolm in the Middle). He is annoying on that show and he was annoying here. He's 8 years old? Seemed kind of slow on the development, didn't he? When I was 8, I would never have put the toilet seat down while in mid-stream. The very last flashback, when she is sitting there thinking and imagines herself never having gone up into the guy's apartment - yeah, that's what she should have done. |
Hummingbird | Saturday, March 01, 2003 - 04:22 pm     I have to disagree on one point. I don't think the movie condones adultry. I think it would scare anybody away from the thought! |
Curiouscat | Sunday, March 02, 2003 - 10:05 am     ***Spoilers*** Do not read any further if you haven't seen the movie yet. I'd like to add my 2 cents as well. I'd consider watching the movie again just to pick it apart more. There were a couple things that really bothered me. One was the seeming incompetence of the murder investigation, but then again, maybe I watch too much CSI. Another was the inane need to say the murdered man was married. Last, but not least, I was angered over the indifference to killing a person and throwing his body in the dump, whereas the couple's self-centered angst was highlighted. |
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