IMDB Plot Synopsis: A young widow discovers that her late husband has left her 10 messages intended to help ease her pain and start a new life.
- This movie isn’t as terrible as the trailer looked or as critics claim it is. Actually, this movie is deceptive in that it is pretty terrible and yet it’s enjoyable despite how bad it is. I hate it when that happens.
- Hilary Swank put me right off in this movie. First she was an insufferable stereotypical insane woman, the kind that help men believe that all women are crazy by purposely misinterpreting everything her husband says, constantly trying to add a layer of subtext to everything when there just isn’t one, and then getting upset when she’s trapped her husband into accidentally saying what he thinks she thinks she wants to hear. Then, because there are multiple flashback scenes, we find out that she used to be a carefree art student with a penchant for wearing mismatched thirft store finds and clearly we are meant to understand she was a much happier person when she was “creating”. Christ on a cracker. And why do characters like this constantly show up in movies? I know they’re standard rom-com fare but come on, it would be nice to see some female characters who aren’t deliberately quirky (read: annoying) or neurotic or awful.
- Speaking of which, Hilary Swank is completely wrong for a role like this. She doesn’t really pull off that “I’m cute but I don’t know it” vibe that all rom-com women are written as having.
- Gerard Butler’s character was ridiculously one-dimensional. Having only two main character traits (“cute” and “Irish”) are not enough to get you through an entire film, even if your character is dead.
- I think both Hilary Swank and Gerard Butler need to fire their agents, FYI.
- I wish I could be impoverished the way people in movies are because that apartment, the one they kept whining was way too small for them, was pretty sweet. I’d also have a sweet collection of designer shoes.
- Didn’t dig Harry Conick Jr.’s character ogling Hilary Swank’s character while they were at her husband’s bloody memorial service. I mean, I know it’s being held in a bar, but a little propriety would be nice.
- I love how this movie is all about moving on and letting go and yet the movie strongly implies that Holly will end up in some way with Gerry’s childhood best friend who is nearly identical to Gerry, which isn’t difficult considering he also possesses only two character traits: cute and Irish. This is healthy, I’m sure.
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