You've Got Mail (1998)'s comments

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yix_ng

Love this classic! I could watch it over and over again without getting bored.

13 years 4 months ago

Jay AK

I just love this movie. Tom Hanks especially was great

7 years 10 months ago

I hate to be this cynical about You've Got Mail, but its formula feels quite artificial to me. After Norah Ephron's success with Sleepless in Seattle, it makes sense that Hollywood would team her up once again with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan in a romcom inspired by a Golden Age classic, this time The Shop Around the Corner. And then throw some product placement into it, and essentially tell us that the big superstores deserve to win against small businesses. It's more or less fine until the third act - I mean, if you can believe at all that Mr Nice Guy Hanks is a corporate big wig - with a a lot of acting talent (even many of the bit parts are, or would become, recognizable faces) on screen, and Ryan and Hanks being charming as usual. The third act makes makes a painful mistake, however. It thinks that Hanks holding all the cards and manipulating Ryan to get her to fall in love with him is somehow "cute". And further, though there's the mention of a "special project" which you think will save her little bookstore, no such solution materializes, and so a final rejection is required. That's of course not what we get. The movie is completely wrong-headed and lacks a moral compass, so it's going into my spam folder.

3 months 3 weeks ago

Brantastic16

Like most romcoms, it's not funny enough to truly be a comedy and it's not passionate enough to truly be a romance. It's kind of somewhere in the middle, which kind of makes the film seem underwhelming and forgettable. It has its charms though, and it's got an interesting premise.

12 years 8 months ago

chunkylefunga

Shouldn't really be in the comedy classification.

9 years 1 month ago

IreneAdler

Definately a dislike. I LOVE Tom Hanks and I realize this is supposed to be a pretty classic love story, but I was just bored and not drawn to the characters at all. Dunno why, personal taste, can't help it...

9 years 8 months ago