Forces of Nature

Forces of Nature

Plane crashes, pickpockets, hurricanes--heaven and hell is moving to prevent our able hero Ben (Ben Affleck) from marrying his sweetie (Maura Tierney) in Savannah. At every turn he runs into someone else despairing about the woes of married life. And of course, temptation proves overwhelming in the face of traveling companion Sarah (Sandra Bullock), the wild woman whom he can't seem--or doesn't want--to lose. After a wayward bird flies into the engine of his airplane, Ben is forced to find another way to his wedding. He finds himself stuck with Sarah, whom he carried from the plane after she was whacked in the noggin by his laptop. The heat between them is unmistakable, and the drama in the film comes from the "will he or won't he," both in terms of sleeping with Sarah and meeting up with his bride. Forces of Nature is a fun and sentimental road-trip film, but Ben is such a strait-laced noodge, you can't help but want him to fall flat on his face just a little. Bullock is the life of this film, although her free-spirited ways get a bit tired (responsibility is not all bad). The highlight of this movie, though, is definitely the cinematography. The beautiful rain shots and the colors of the scenes lend to the unsettling mood. While the jokes are not rip-roaring, Forces is to be reckoned with for those times when a lighthearted film is what you need. --Jenny Brown

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Stars: Ben Affleck, Sandra Bullock, Maura Tierney, Steve Zahn
Production: Dreamworks Distribution
  2 wins & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.4
Metacritic:
46
Rotten Tomatoes:
45%
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PG-13
Year:
1999
105
5,468 Views

Ben Holmes:
Quoting Bishop Jeremy Taylor, "Marriage hath in it less of beauty but more of safety, than the single life; it hath more care, but less danger, it is more merry, and more sad; it is fuller of sorrows, and fuller of joys; it lies under more burdens, but it is supported by all the strengths of love and charity, and those burdens are delightful."

Ben Holmes:
Are you going to be here when I get back?

Sarah Lewis:
You know me.

Ben Holmes:
I would not presume.

Sarah Lewis:
I don't deserve heaven.

Ben Holmes:
Oh Sarah, you deserve so much more than you think you do.

Ben Holmes:
I haven't known you that long, but I think there may be something wrong with you.

Sarah Lewis:
Two wayward travellers stuck in a Geo with a guy named Vic.

Sarah Lewis:
What other options do we have? We have no options. None!

Ben Holmes:
Yet somehow they seem more appealing than this.

Ben Holmes:
Bridge, ya know, I mean, what I always thought was that there was this one, one perfect person for everybody in the world, you know, and when you found that person, uh, the rest of the world just kinda magically faded away and... and you know, the two of you would just be inside this kind of protective bubble. But there is no bubble, or if there is, we have to make it. I just think life is more than a series of moments, you know, it's... it's... we can make choices and we can choose to protect the people we love and that's what makes us who we are, and those are the real miracles! Stop me when it becomes glaringly obvious that I have no idea what I am talking about...

Ben Holmes:
Sometimes the people we meet change us forever.

Ben Holmes:
Sarah, everybody loves you, you just... you just think they're all wrong.

Alan:
Okay, I'm not... payin' for that. It was already chipped.

Sarah Lewis:
Ya, you're right. Sorry. I wasn’t thinking about that when I was unconscious and bleeding from the head!

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  • Haiti Ho
    Haiti Ho
    You complain your life, none stop, all the time. It is all your fault, you are a beautiful and incredible woman, you can get any guy you want, but you are keeping picking these losers, and the only thing I can think of is you chose these guys whose Intellectual inferior you, so you can control them, but still feel conveniently wounded when relationship bans, you are the one afraid to commitment, you back at every job you ever had, you run away any one and anything, you think you are unconventional liberating , in fact, it is just coward and juvenile, and unable face the real world. 
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