Kevin & Johna .com

Last weekend, Johna’s dad and I went to see Cars. Hilarious! I think you’ll get the most out of it if you’re up on your NASCAR racing, which I am not (as much as you’d expect anyway). Lots of funny jokes in this one. Its cool to see a world from a car’s perspective (especially the end sequences during the credits … if you go, be sure to stay for that).

This weekend Johna and I saw The Lakehouse. Since it had Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock, I assumed it would involve the two of them being trapped in a house on the lake that can’t go below 50MPH or it will explode. Apparently, those two can be in a movie without speed… as long as the space-time continium is involved. Here’s a synopsis, guy style:

Keanu buys a house on the lake that’s uber cool. Looks like something that was pulled out of Main Street at Disneyland and put on stilts. He drinks beer and is too cool to give any attention to the mild hottie at work who’s interested in him.

Sandi B. also buys the house, but two years later (2006). She leaves to sell out and be a doctor in Chicago. She writes a note to the new home owner and leaves it in the mailbox out front.

The mailbox happens to sit within a hole in the fabric of space-time (the only explaination I can think of for how this movie “works”). They discover they are able to send messages to one another through this whole and romance ensues.

Some may have a problem with this saying that it goes beyond normally accepted cinematic suspension of disbelief. I say “yes” but not because of the “mailbox in a hole in the fabric of space-time” thing… because this movie asks us to believe that mailmen (or women) do not exist in either 2004 or 2006… since you never see one picking up the mail that is left there for the other person! … Hollywood: you’re on notice.

Normal space-time rules apply here: (a) doing something in the past can change the future  (b) something from the future can be sent back to the past.

So, while this is largely a chick-flick, and while Keanu is quickly becoming an actor who is painful to watch, it is a good movie. I’d encourage other guys reading this to do what I did… call it a “date night” and say you’re up for a chick-flick … and tell yourself you’re going to watch something along the lines of “Back to the Future” or “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home” (they go back in time in that one). That’ll get you in the door, once the movie starts you’ll see, it’s really not bad at all!