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phantom - wrote on 07/12/10
I just couldn't get past the fact that she's basically cheating on her fiance. Oh and the guy she supposed to be falling for has all the charm of a bump on a log. He's a jerk to her and then all of a sudden we're supposed to believe that she's fallen for him. NO! And he not even as cute as her fiance. Now her fiance has a Spanish accent (Spanish accents way more sexy than English). He's a chef who cooks yummy things for her and took her to Italy. Where is the choice?
Oh and she gets all annoyed at the fiance cause he's working with his suppliers for a restaurant he's opening back in New York. I'm sorry, but he's working get over it.
Basically this movie is telling you to go with the Anglo (Nazi poster boy) aristocrat over the Mediterranean swarthy working class guy that you're engaged to.
Aside from this I have been to Verona, it's my favorite city in the world. And aside from a few birds eye view shots you hardly see any of it. I could forgive that if they didn't make up stuff.
NOBODY tapes their letters to the wall of Juliet's house!!! You mail it to her or you can send her an email from the museum that Seyfried was in since she was hanging out of its balcony. I know its a little detail, but if you know its wrong, its annoying. Also the entry way into the courtyard is perhaps has the most graffiti I've ever seen, with white walls that are painted over every year. Whereas in this film its a bare stone wall. WTF? stand in walls? are you kidding me?
P.S. Venessa Redgrave is wasted on such a film, even if it is a reunion with Franco Nero who was in Camelot with her.
