This is a movie that really missed the point. It's about a very sophisiticated letterbox that allows the owner to send correspondence exactly two years into the future or past. The title of the movie itself sums up the margin by which this movie misses the point. What about the Lakehouse??? Aren't we talking about a magic letterbox here?
Not only did this movie fail to explore the possibilities of this unique magic letterbox scenario (lotto numbers, stock market data etc) but it mianders off regularly into irrelevant, sickening and unimaginitive details of the lives of two insipid actors (Sandra and Keanu) - which are at best uncompelling.
In the end the magic letterbox saves Keanu's life, despite all it's potential for good and profit, and the story wanders off on another tangent about how this makes Sandra feel. Letterbox be gone... all you need is love and slobber.
I feel "The Letterbox" had great potential, but award "The Lakehouse" an Absolute Rating of 8 out of 10... where 10 is "Absolutely Despised The Retard Movie". Still I would be interested to see where a different director could take an appropriately titled sequel "The Letterbox 2"... who was it that directed "Big?"
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Good point. I found the movie very frustrating and maybe you've hit on why. Or maybe it was the acting. Dodgy.
It's at LEAST ten years since I saw "Big", but I thought it was good... Wasn't it good?
Was, 'Big', good? Well...that's hard to say. Like so many other intangible queries - "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day"; 'Was "Turner and Hooch" good'? Hard to say.
If the magic letterbox is made into a movie though, I think it should be owned by the magic pudding. He-he! I would see that movie in a second!
Was.... good?
The Money Pit - Yes
Turner & Hooch - Yes
Sleepless in Seatle - No
Big - yes
Joe v The volcano - No
Road to Perdition - No
Green Mile - Yes
Philedelphia - unsure
Cast Away - Yes
The Terminal (aka Cast Away II: Lost in civilization) - NO
What! I liked Sleepless In Seattle!
We regularly went to the restaurant where one of its famous scenes was filmed.
We took mum and dad there, and mum fell asleep at the table after half a glass of cider.
I was furious that I couldn't get my camera out fast enough to catch her sleeping at the Sleepless restaurant.
Hey - I had 'Big' down as that Arnie movie, which didn~t really fit with what seemed a common thread... but turns out that was 'Twins' and it just happened to star someone Big. You can see where I tripped up there...
Anyway, for nostalgia's sake: http://www.cinemovies.fr/fiche_film.php?IDfilm=2000
a snap of Tom back when his hair was a la moda. Great stuff Aaron, but can you write every day?? plsssss....cheers, m
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