50 First Dates
Published May 16, 2024
Film info
- Title 50 First Dates
- Director Peter Segal
- Year 2004
- Run time 1hr 39m
- Genres Comedy, Romance
- Tagline Imagine having to win over the girl of your dreams... every friggin' day
Harry is a commitment-phobic vet who rethinks his lothario lifestyle when he meets the adorable Lucy. But since an accident has left her with no short term memory, Harry must win her heart anew - every single day. As refreshing and dipsy as a sea breeze.
Live blog
| Time | Comment |
|---|---|
| 2:30 | Fake spy talk is fun. |
| 4:44 | Pet penguin. |
| 10:04 | Honey, your waffles are smoking. |
| 16:16 | Love the van pulling out and revealing them dancing. |
| 19:47 | “I’m a tax attorney, we never get to have any fun.” She says, on holiday in Hawaii. |
| 24:48 | Not sure the father should be enabling the situation with the newspaper? |
| 28:17 | Spoiler alert. |
| 37:13 | This meat cleaver is really being threatened as a weapon a LOT! |
| 42:20 | He’s been listening to a lot of the Cure lately. |
| 46:59 | Ringo McCartney. |
| 50:09 | “Sweetie, you’re sort of dating him.” |
| 1:01:37 | Can’t believe her first question was about the cow. Adorable. |
| 1:09:42 | It’s like the song on the plane. |
| 1:15:09 | Journal is a great idea. |
| 1:30:33 | The boat doesn’t seem big enough for four people. |
Thoughts
I’m not really sure what to make of this movie. It’s not good, right from the start it was clear this wasn’t a GOOD movie, but it was fun and watchable and got better as it went on. There are a lot of problems with it, though. The medical side is completely questionable, there’s a lot of cultural appropriation and insensitive remarks that haven’t aged well. And I didn’t quite get the tone, sometimes it was really well done and serious, sometimes it was adorable cute rom-com, and sometimes it was Adam Sandler making a walrus vomit on a colleague. But for every negative, you also get scream-crying the lyrics to Wouldn’t It Be Nice which is worth it all.
Rating: 2 / 5