The Lake House - a Review and yes **SPOILERS**

[LynneSin]

We wanted to see "An INconvient Truth" on Saturday but got there late so we saw "The Lake House".

Here's my review in a nutshell - THE PLOT LINE DOESN'T WORK BECAUSE IT'S FRICKING 2004/6 IN THE MOVIE - WHY DIDN'T SHE BOTHER LOOKING HIM UP ON THE INTERNET SO SHE COULD FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM!!!

That little fact alone bugged me throughout the entire movie. She's a doctor, he's an architect and the son of a famous architect and not once did she think about googling his damn name to find out what he was doing today. I mean if you love someone that much go pay fricking $5 at the local internet cafe to log on and find out how to find the guy.

:grr:

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

1. Thanks for the review Lynne. I'll wait for it to come out on DVD...

BTW, the lake scenes were filmed about a mile and half from where I live.

http://www.dailysouthtown.com/southtown/tgif/161tgmvr.htm#lake

Maple Lake Forest Preserve, known throughout the South Side of Chicago as the place to go to watch "submarine races" in the late 1960's and early 1970's.

[LynneSin]

2. Is that a real house - it was absolutely beautiful

I mean, I would live there but not necessarily in Chicago - that thing had to be a bitch to heat in the wintertime

[GCP]

3. Not to mention unbearably hot in summer

I actually liked the movie, and I was on edge at the end whether it would work out or not.

[GalleryGod]

4. We Really Liked it ! Quite Entertaining !

[LynneSin]

6. But didn't it bother you that (again **SPOILERS**)

She didn't once use any kind of modern technology anywhere out there to find the guy ESPECIALLY when in the end they just randomly picked an architect to redesign their home with any knowledge of who that apointment would be with. Hell, when I make a doctor's appointment I know the name of the doctor I'm seeing even if it's the first time going there.

For a woman who professed her love she surely didn't do all she could to find out who the guy was or track him down today (which yes, would have pointed her to what really happened to him).


If this movie was done even 20 years ago I would have believed it but in 2006 it was just not believable. Even if Kate & Alex were major technophobes (as shown by them each driving cars that had to be about 30-40 years old), you'd think this unbridle passion would have put one of them on the computer to find the other

[GalleryGod]

7. "Suspension of disbelief" How many times has everyone heard that

phrase on "Inside the Actors Studio" in the past 10 seasons ?

If I had the reaction that you expressed, I would've demanded a ticket credit, which is ALWAYS an option at the RITZ 16 in Voorhees.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

9. No Lynne, it isn't a real house. It was torn down after they filmed the

movie. As well, there is no swimming allowed in Maple Lake, never has been, at least in my lifetime.

The entire area is owned by the Cook County Forest Preserve District. I could be wrong but a lot of the Forest Preserve land was planted by the CCC during the Depression and there are no "private" residences allowed to be built on Forest Preserve land. There are houses on some Forest Preserve land throughout the County, but I believe they're leased by FP employees that are caretakers and the like.

It's a beautiful area, in fact, I drove right by Maple Lake earlier today on my way home from Lemont. Another interesting note about that particular part of the Cook County Forest Preserve land, about 1 mile from Maple Lake, the nuclear waste from the University of Chicago's and Enrico Fermi's project "splitting the atom" was buried in Redgate Woods.
However, I do believe that particular "nuclear waste" was removed sometime in the mid-90's because it started to leak.

[dolo amber]

5. I give this review

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:


:D

[GalleryGod]

8. Why Quibble..but

Can't do it, Ange !:rofl:

[tjdee]

10. Do they end up together at the end? Because really, that's all I care abou

t.

I'm willing to think they're totally dumb and neither of them says gee, the internets will help us.... but only if they end up together. :silly:

Seriously, do they?

[LynneSin]

11. Yes 2 really dumb people who manage to become an architect & doctor

:crazy:

And I won't spoil it that much