Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Sleepless in Seattle


Just finished watching Sleepless in Seattle on Netflix Streaming. I love Netflix and I also admittedly love this movie... Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks are just the perfect romantic comedy duo. 

However.... 

On what planet would any new relationship survive any of the psycho things that Meg Ryan's character does??? 

First, she listens to him on a radio program and becomes infatuated with him... whatever, I can get past that. Then, she decides to use her job at a newspaper and pretends that she's writing an article on call-in talk show radio programs-- she could get fired for this but her manager is her bff and is totally supportive. So she hires a private detective out of Seattle to follow Tom Hank's character around and take pictures of him. Then, she spends nights in a closet while her fiance is in bed listening to the radio program featuring Tom's kid. She writes the dude a letter and throws it away but her friend mails it secretly. The letter tells Tom that she wants to meet him on top of the Empire State building on V-day.

She decides to fly to Seattle so she can go talk to Tom-- I guess she'll just pretend that she's writing an article... She tells her fiance she's going to Chicago for something else. She stalks Tommy Boy a little and watches him play with his 8 year old child-- CREEPY. She asks her girlfriend, aka Rosie O'Donnell, if she's crazy and Rosie responds "no." Good friend.

She decides she's living in a fantasy world (you think?) and tries to just live it up with her fiance. Meanwhile, Tom's kid gets on a plane BY HIMSELF to go to NYC on V-day to meet Meg. Tom finally catches up and is relieved that his child was not murdered. Meg breaks up with her fiance (he's not too broken up about it), sees a heart on the Empire State building (thinks it's a sign), goes there and sees Tom. They hold hands and live happily ever after.

Here are my questions:
What happens next??? Tom seems to think it's normal that this woman, who lives in Baltimore, wrote him a letter. He also isn't bothered by the fact that he bumped into her twice in Seattle. He doesn't seem to be creeped out at all. I guess he doesn't know about the private detective or the fact that she was watching him but I think eventually those questions would begin to surface. 


Do you see what this is doing to perfectly sane women in America? It makes them think it's okay to be stalkers! Like, no biggie, just follow him around and watch him... he'll think it's romantic. Not true. This would not go over well in REAL LIFE. This is not how meaningful relationships form. Stalking does not equal romance. Oh Meg...



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