When I think of Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan together, I think of the two movies, You've Got Mail and Sleepless in Seattle. In my mind I keep them straight like this, the one is "bookstores and email" and the other one is "kid, radio show, and An Affair to Remember"
Excitement coursed through me. Here we go, I can take a trip back to the 90s when people actually had AOL and used it to send strangers email. When Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan were the king and queen of Nora Ephron land...an imaginary place where things always work out, cuteness abounds, and love triumphs in the end.
I start watching "Bookstores and Email". Meg Ryan is so cute, and I just fall in love with her children's bookstore, "The Shop Around the Corner"...the store she received from her mother. She keeps talking about "twirling" (one of the best thing about being a girl and wearing those frilly dresses) these books about shoes (Dancing Shoes, Skating Shoes.....are these real books?? Because if they are I feel the need to read them, Meg Ryan is so impassioned when she talks about them) Some of the things they say in those emails I feel so close to..."bouquets of #2 pencils" (I have a secret love affair with office supplies...shhh don't tell anyone!)
About halfway through the movie it hits me.....the reason I don't own this movie.....the thing that kills all of the warm fuzzy feelings deep inside of me......the ruination of Tom Hanks in my world. At the end of the movie, she has to close her bookstore. She looses everything her mother worked so hard for, her legacy. Gone. Ruined. Destroyed. Tom Hanks single-handedly tears her world apart.
....and then she just forgives him and they walk off into the distance presumably to live happily ever after. WHAT???? Who is buying this? Who can honestly watch this movie and forgive Tom Hanks for destroying her beautiful bookstore? Not me. I feel that loosing Helen Hunt and being forced to live on a deserted island with only a volleyball named Wilson to talk to was almost punishment enough for what he did to Meg Ryan and her Shop Around the Corner. Almost. Because in my world, apparently the two are related!
I agree. I have never been a fan of that show because I think it ends dumb and I would never be able to forgive him for doing that to me.
ReplyDeleteI have seen this movie but I don't remember very well or even not at all. I am not a big movie fan.
ReplyDeleteI collect old office equipment, which are like Meg Ryans bookstore. They had their time and it reminds me to bring reverent stewardship to today's technology. Its the people not the tools that count. I'm glad she forgave him. Now you can write their happily ever after story in your mind. Oh yah you did (banned to a deserted island). You make me laugh.
ReplyDeleteLOL Oh my gosh I love this blog! LOL
ReplyDeleteBwahaha! I never made the connection before but I'm pretty sure I gave up on TH after this one, too.
ReplyDeleteI have a hard time with a lot of romantic comedies because it seems that those situations would never turn out that way in real life!
ReplyDeleteI didn't buy the ending either. No way. And those are real books by Noel Streatfeild.
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I love this post! You caught all of the stuff that bugged me with that movie! Meg Ryan's bookstore was a place I could've curled up and forgotten about the world around me. And I also have a stash of stationary and office supplies that would do an office proud. (Except that I live on a farm with the chickens, children and a parrot) I LOVE YOUR BLOG!
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