The Lake House

So I got home from work last night and decided to watch a movie since it's summer, and there's nothing on TV I particularly want to watch (that means you Mark Burnett and anything that you could possibly produce). Now I wish I had read a book instead. Anything had to have been better than this very lame movie.

The basic premise is that Keanu Reeves, who plays Alex moves into a lake house that his father built. He receives a letter in the mail from a previous tenant, Kate, played by Sandra Bullock. To make a long story short, it's 2004 when Alex is living in the house, and 2006 where she is. So two people corresponding seperated by two years. Oh, and somehow they also managed to talk to each telepathically as well.

My biggest problem with this movie was two fold, one it turns out that Alex and Kate have not only met in 2004 but they also dance together at her surprise birthday party and share a kiss. 2) once she knows who he is, why doesn't she google him? Come on, we've all googled people that we've gone out with, or want to go out with. She seems pretty computer literate. She wasn't even curious. However, she does send him a book about his father that is published in the future after his father dies. WTF?

And lastly but not least, I totally knew how it was going to end about halfway through when she waited for him at dinner in 2006 and he didn't show up.

Apparently this movie is based on a South Korean film, but it reminded me of a movie with Campbell Scott and Jennifer Jason Leigh called The Love Letter. If you haven't seen this movie you should, it's awesome. It's up there with Somewhere in Time. In this movie, Campbell Scott and Jennifer Jason Leigh are seperated by over 100 years. She lives during the Civil War. They communicate by leaving letters in an old desk that he buys. In fact, if I remember correctly he actually researches who she is (unlike Sandra Bullock).

So Lake House C-

The Love Letter A

Thanks for reading,

EKM