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Moonstruck (1987)
I'm not a fan of romantic comedies. Considering that Moonstruck wasn't nearly as painful experience as I feared. It's not exaggeratedly sweet, and most of the characters seem distant and flat (except Cage, of course, and he's the only one that annoyed me). Unlike so many of these films, it doesn't resemble sugarcoated fairy tale but, at least to a degree, life.
My main issue with this particular brand of comedies is the fact that they're not especially funny. While there isn't much (anything?) to laugh at in Moonstruck, it's at least an easy watch that keeps a good pace throughout its whole lighthearted 100 minutes. Maybe Cage's character is meant to be funny, but to me, he feels out of place in this film. He's like a mental patient among the normies.
It's hard to come up with anything to say about this film. Moonstruck is the movie equivalent of muzak. It manages to kill time, but there's nothing to remember it by. I can't hate it, but I definitely can't love it either. It just is and draws no emotions whatsoever.
I'm not a fan of romantic comedies. Considering that Moonstruck wasn't nearly as painful experience as I feared. It's not exaggeratedly sweet, and most of the characters seem distant and flat (except Cage, of course, and he's the only one that annoyed me). Unlike so many of these films, it doesn't resemble sugarcoated fairy tale but, at least to a degree, life.
My main issue with this particular brand of comedies is the fact that they're not especially funny. While there isn't much (anything?) to laugh at in Moonstruck, it's at least an easy watch that keeps a good pace throughout its whole lighthearted 100 minutes. Maybe Cage's character is meant to be funny, but to me, he feels out of place in this film. He's like a mental patient among the normies.
It's hard to come up with anything to say about this film. Moonstruck is the movie equivalent of muzak. It manages to kill time, but there's nothing to remember it by. I can't hate it, but I definitely can't love it either. It just is and draws no emotions whatsoever.
, Bradley Cooper, etc, etc. 
I did have one weird thought, that I never thought before while watching a movie: the film must have had more sequences (shots) than any other movie I've seen before. And it struck me as financial decadence. I kept thinking what else could have been done with all those scenes. In someways that pissed me off and it seemed like the director was showing off. I'm a firm believer in less is more. The end montage had way too many unnecessary scene shots in it and that for me deluded the ending and made me conclude the directory was indeed singing his own praises. That then put me off and so did my notion that his movie idea is lifted from Solaris. But there's no dening it's superbly made.
