50 First Dates was ADORABLE....

[radwriter0555]

Just loved it! Completely original story line, some really REALLY funny lines, politically correct and totally incorrect all at the same time, and just way too much fun.

A very sweet and sentimental story, great characters, lots of love and compassion. All warm and fuzzy and F-U-N-N-Y!

Not good stupid fun like "Dude? Where's my Car?" (which btw, there will NOT be a sequel too **sob**), but sweet, silly, goofy, CUTE, and rip roaring funny.

Good family fun! Of all people, Rob Snider was HYSTERICAL. I usually hate him, but this character had me rolling on the floor! The Sandler character was almost Mr. Deeds-like... perhaps a but more irreverent.

[terrya]

1. My trepidation about this movie has to do with something you mentioned...

Two words : Adam Sandler.

Admittedly, I was shocked...and pleasantly surprised...that Sandler has it in him to do films like "Punch Drunk Love". But, oh my...the rest of the dross you have to sift through.

I might take your advice and see it, though.

Terry

[Stephanie]

2. It's not original at all

That story idea was ripped off from an off-Broadway play written by David Abaire and produced at Manhattan Theater Club. I'm wondering if there will be lawsuits. The first date aspect is original, but the memory loss part is stolen directly from the play. As a writer I thought this might interest you.

[Stephanie]

6. Here's a review

I can't find the original off-Broadway reviews - the play appeared in '97 or '98 in NYC - but this gives you an idea of the plot. It was hysterical, BTW.

http://www.ocweekly.com/ink/04/21/theater-flynn.php

Fuddy Meers forgets the past, is doomed to repeat it
by Kelly Flynn

David Lindsay-Abaire’s Fuddy Meers begins like a Kafka story—or like any "suspense" flick that might have gone straight to Cinemax—with its main character waking up. Sweet-natured Claire (Mo Arii) suffers from "psychogenic amnesia" due to an undisclosed trauma, and as a result, she wakes every morning with no memory. Her husband, Richard (Patrick Gwaltney), keeps a small journal with all the pertinent facts she needs to know in order to greet the morning: she’s married, she has a son, she loves search-a-word puzzles. As Richard patiently explains the situation, Claire brightens to the prospect of a day full of new possibilities. She’s not a victim, and this isn’t a typical Lifetime network story of determined people overcoming disabilities.

[radwriter0555]

14. It's original in that it isn't the normal hollywood tripe garbage passed

off as 'scripts' and story lines these days, that's for sure.

As far as it being similiar to the play; COOL! I hope everyone gets paid cause it is a great story line.

[Stephanie]

15. Cool? I think it's stolen!

Doesn't it look like a stolen idea to you? This was a hit off-B'way play, widely reviewed. I think it's appalling, unless they paid the playwright for the idea.

[stevedeshazer]

3. So, it wasn't just about

beer, sex, and TV?

[underpants]

4. There is absolutely no chance I will ever watch that movie

Sander is bad enough but throw in Drew Barrymore and that is just too much.....er actually too little. No thanks.

[Lindsey]

7. I loved the "Wedding Planner"

which starred both of them. I'd definitely give this movie a chance.

[underpants]

10. Tripe mindless unfunny tripe

IMHO

I actually saw it and kept asking "when is the funny part?"

Sorry this is just a personal opinion but I think I have seen him do about one funny thing (the fight with Bob Barker ih "Happy Gilmore") in his entire career.

[radwriter0555]

11. I'm sure you mean "The Wedding Singer" ;)

Planner was ala lopez and mcconnaugh however the hell you spell his name.

[jimbo fett]

5. Someone told me that it was a rip-off of "Groundhog Day" basically.

[Goldberg]

8. Is 50 First Dates a "chick flick?"

It looked like it...

[YellowRubberDuckie]

9. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and I'm not really into Adam Sandler much...

But I love Drew, and I loved the kids and the animals, and it was such as sweet movie. I did a thread like this last weekend after I saw it on Friday, and everyone dissed me and my opinion and the movie. Go see it. EVen if you don't like Adam Sandler. The only thing regular about him in this movie is the song he sings to her at the dolphin tank.
Duckie

[radwriter0555]

12. Ya know, there isn't a thing wrong with liking simple films like this...

Me? I happened to have LOVED BOTH charlie's angels movies, can't WAIT to see Starsky and Hutch and will wait in line for a Jackie Chan / Owen Wilson flick ANY time of the day or night.

I will also stand in line for Tomb Raider III and ANYTHING by Robert Rodriguez.

I go to the movies for FUN and entertainment. Life, I know from already, living one with well and enough drama.

Movies I want FUN from! I want chicks who rock and men who are romantic and silly and tough, all at the same time! Yee HAW!

Life's too short to take too seriously, that's for sure!

[Lisa0825]

13. I thought it was a very good movie.

I LOVED parts of it, and laughed out loud! Other parts were just goofy, and one part almost made me sick!!! Overall, I thought it was very good. But then, I LOVE Adam Sandler, and also like Drew Barrymore and Rob Schneider.

I also can't stand to see movie snobs rip someone for having a difference in preferences, so since YellowRubberDuckie mentioned that, I thought I would chime in!:-)

BTW, maybe the amnesia bit has been used before, but that doesn't make it a rip off. Does that mean there should only be one story ever about a paraplegic or a shipwreck or a past life? My point is thatthere can always be a new spin on an old idea.