Of all the movies that I've seen over the last 12 months, there has only been a handful that made me regret paying for. Autumn in New York brought me one step further. I almost decided to leave half way through but decided to stay in case things turned around plus I thought it would have been unfair to review a movie that I only saw half of.
Richard Gere plays a successful restaurant owner that has a reputation of being a bit of a womanizer. Winona Ryder plays a young woman that Gere pursues (and gets) only to find out that this young woman is dying. As you guessed, Gere falls in love with her and does everything in his power to save her. There's a bunch of stuff mixed in there but you get the gist of the plot line.
What made me almost want to leave? There are some amazingly cheesy lines. I've seen quite a few romance type movies and have to admit that I do like them but this movie had some really bad lines. A few times there were scenes that just made me shake my head and wonder if Hollywood execs ever did any test screenings. In my opinion, they should have redone the writing for the first half of the movie.
You wonder why I say the first half? The second half deals with Ryder's character's health declining so the focus of the movie moves from romance to drama. The movie gets slightly better but not much. I guess the decision to not have any interviews before the release date was a good one from a business perspective but from an audience perspective, I feel like I've been suckered in.
I've seen Richard Gere and Winona Ryder in much better movies and if I were their agents, I'd screen scripts a little better. It was painful watching them deliver some really, really bad lines. This one was not worth the price of admission. For you Gere and Ryder fans out there, see this as a matinee or wait until it comes out in the dollar theatres. This way, you won't feel AS cheated out of your money.
The only thing I liked was the cinematography. There are some nice shots of New York but other than that, not much else. Sorry folks, this was not a very entertaining movie.
Richard Gere plays a successful restaurant owner that has a reputation of being a bit of a womanizer. Winona Ryder plays a young woman that Gere pursues (and gets) only to find out that this young woman is dying. As you guessed, Gere falls in love with her and does everything in his power to save her. There's a bunch of stuff mixed in there but you get the gist of the plot line.
What made me almost want to leave? There are some amazingly cheesy lines. I've seen quite a few romance type movies and have to admit that I do like them but this movie had some really bad lines. A few times there were scenes that just made me shake my head and wonder if Hollywood execs ever did any test screenings. In my opinion, they should have redone the writing for the first half of the movie.
You wonder why I say the first half? The second half deals with Ryder's character's health declining so the focus of the movie moves from romance to drama. The movie gets slightly better but not much. I guess the decision to not have any interviews before the release date was a good one from a business perspective but from an audience perspective, I feel like I've been suckered in.
I've seen Richard Gere and Winona Ryder in much better movies and if I were their agents, I'd screen scripts a little better. It was painful watching them deliver some really, really bad lines. This one was not worth the price of admission. For you Gere and Ryder fans out there, see this as a matinee or wait until it comes out in the dollar theatres. This way, you won't feel AS cheated out of your money.
The only thing I liked was the cinematography. There are some nice shots of New York but other than that, not much else. Sorry folks, this was not a very entertaining movie.