Day 12: Hope Floats

Day 12: Hope Floats

Okay Day 12 gets some definite mixed reviews in my book. There are moments in Hope Floats that I just feel all gooey and absolutely love, there are some all too real scenes like where the kid is begging the dad to take her with him that make me weep and thus do NOT fall in my category of RC and then there are some of the dumbest dissolves that I thought for sure the director or editor’s are on crack when they made this right? So, this movie is just all over the place for me. I have some friends (and now coworkers) with very strong opinions for and against this movie and I must say, I just feel sort of "eh" about it.

Lets just get right to my list hmm?

• Giddy: We have some great giddy moments here, like the dancing “Dancing is just a conversation between two people…talk to me”, and pretty much anytime Harry Connick enters the screen, not to mention that over the top cheesy end where she sees the one clear picture of him standing there with flowers.

• Lies: No lies.
• Big Emotional Outbursts: We have them here. The scene with the daughter begging for her dad, that scene rips me up, but to be honest somehow doesn’t belong in this movie.
• Dance Sequence: We have the mom trying to cheer up the daughter and the sizzling scene on the dance floor with Harry and Sandra.
• Wedding: No. boo.
• Rewatchable: Yeah but probably after all 30 other movies I now I own J
• Love: Ah well… there is supposed to be this great love with Sandra and Harry but honestly, all I see is a guy pining over a girl that isn’t ready to love him. And then she just changes her mind after seeing a picture of him at work. Hmm.. I needed a bit more.
• Fantasy: It being set in a small town in the south can be sort of a fantasical setting for some.. I grew up in the South… so not really for me.
• Journey of the Main Character: She has to come to like herself and accept what’s been thrown at her. Do I believe I see this transition… well…
• Body Count: 1! The Grandma dies. And MAN was she cool!
• Music Montages: There are a ton in this film but I’m not crazy about the songs so…
• Strong Female: The Grandma definitely is. And well… I think that is the goal for Sandra’s character, to become strong and independent.