Among all of those 1999 classics and a bunch of seminal teen movies came Forces of Nature, the year's second-biggest grown-up rom-com.
If you take a look at almost anyone’s list of the best movies of 1999, you’re probably not going to find many romantic comedies, and even fewer if you’re looking for movies about adults. It might look rosier from today’s vantage, when rom-coms are theatrically released even less frequently, but almost every famous movie romance from the most revered movie year of the past 30 years is about teenagers .
, is clearly trying to strut her stuff, and for a while, the sheer visual business ofmakes for a fascinating experience. Even before the Netflix age of ultra-clean over-bright lighting, romantic comedies of the 1990s were more baseline competent than visually arresting, so it’s a kick to watch one with major stars where the camera keeps pushing into their faces, hovering around them with handheld jitteriness, regarding them from canted angles.
This would all work better were it not in service of nonsense – if the lovely location-shot scenery when Ben and Sarah climb up to the roof of their stopped train while it chills out on a massive bridge were backdropping something that it would make sense for a human being to do, or that conveyed some kind of greater yearning than Ben feeling nagged by his attraction to a woman who is not his wife, not his type, and yet… there’s something about her, and so on.
Come to think of it, Bullock and Affleck might match better now; they’re both capable of affecting a kind of world-weariness, despite an additional 25 years of living their rarified lifestyle.very much strands them at the tail end of the ’90s, making them seem downright ill-suited for the decade that birthed both of their careers.
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