![]() This is a disappointing step down from Nora Ephron, who just four years prior as the screenwriter of the great When Harry Met Sally. As a male who has cried at both melodramas and violent war movies, I find this infuriatingly insulting and reductive to these two films specifically, and to the way that audiences use movies generally, and it gets at the thing that Sleepless in Seattle does with a rather free hand, which is to create two large, disconnected bins, one of them labeled "Girl Shit" and one labeled "Guy Shit", and toss everything including the cities of Seattle and Baltimore into those bins, and then ask Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks to stand in as their embodiments. ![]() Men, meanwhile, find this alarming, and watch things like The Dirty Dozen, a violent 1967 war movie, and experience no emotion at all, and indeed mock the notion that one might have an emotional relationship to cinema. Which is true of a lot of movies, obviously, but in this case it does it right in my backyard: see, women, according to Sleepless in Seattle, weep like leaky fire hydrants at An Affair to Remember, the 1957 melodrama classic starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr from 20th Century Fox, * and they do this because they sublimate all of their emotional experiences through the framework of watching corny movies. There are many charms to Sleepless in Seattle, but also a decent number of annoyances, and I hope you'll all forgive me if I just have to lead with the one that has been pissing me off since before I ever saw the movie, basically for the whole of the quarter-century it has existed: it is deeply invested in "men do this, but women do this" style gags of the hoariest sort. ![]() A review requested by flame_boy, with thanks to supporting Alternate Ending as a donor through Patreon.ĭo you have a movie you'd like to see reviewed? This and other perks can be found on our Patreon page!
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