Movie Review: Runaway Bride

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Julia Roberts, Richard Gere starring movie “ runaway bride” is reviewed by a lot of people. Many of these reviews are acceptable though a lot more are very much out of context and have no sense of understanding for the multi starer movie. Review One such review came across my sight. This review is by Cynthia Fuchs Pop Matters Film Editor taken from http://popmatters.com/film/reviews/r/runaway-bride.html. The lady has no doubt reviewed the movie but the review, which comprises of around 9 paragraphs, has more than 5 paragraphs containing nothing but her sympathies and care for Julia Roberts, the main lead of the movie. I am not stopping her from liking some one and expressing her concerns for that particular person, but all this can be done in any other article exclusively written for Julia. There is no doubt that the movie was an average and was just meant for the fans as after watching pretty women people were expecting more from Roberts-Gere duo but alas! I personally liked the movie my self as I m a huge fan of the duo and I love to read reviews before and after watching a movie as this gives me more insight to the film. This habit of mine is just like any other average American or for that matter any other individual as people want to read reviews to get to know more about the movie, its cast, how they are performing, the technical aspects of the film, the sounds, the songs and last but not the least the story line and rating of the movie. But after reading this particular review one felt as if a whole biography of an individual is written and instead of knowing the technical, visual, graphical style of the movie one gets to read the writers sympathies for the lead character. Thus, all in all the review is scrawny and vulner...

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...g through the motions, her eyes tearing up, her lip quivering, the music swelling. It's too much and I resent it, but it makes me worry. I'm certainly not worrying that the plot will not go exactly how I know it will go. I worry, instead, that it will go that way. I worry that she'll stop running, that she'll move to New York to be with Her Man, that she'll say she's sorry for whatever shortcomings she might have displayed during their brief and apparently enchanting courtship, that she'll change herself to fit his idea of what she should be. She has to do it and I know she will. But it still makes me sad, knowing that she has to do this to make everyone else feel secure — again and again, in movie after movie — that they're also making the proper apologies and the right choices, because any other choices are unimaginable for Pretty Women and their gonnabe mates.

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