Forces of Nature

Released: 1999
Comedy, Romance
Director: Bronwen Hughes
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Ben Affleck, Maura Tierney
Rated: PG-13
Running Time: 105 minutes

The breakdown: After a mild plane crash, a soon to be married man and his seatmate join forces to try to get down to Georgia from New York during a terrible hurricane.

So at first, I thought I was continuing my current trend of watching bad movies, but after the initial scenes I got used to the idea that this movie might work.  I like both Bullock and Affleck and they didn't lack for any on screen chemistry.
After sitting next to each other on the plane, upon attempted take off the plane never gets off the ground and kinda' crashes.  Nothing too dramatic, but if it happened to me in real life, I'd be terrified to fly again.  Anyway, there's a big hurricane headed for the gulf coast and Bullock and Affleck need to get to Savannah, Georgia for different reasons.  He's about to be married and she's going to visit her nephew and brother, at least, that's the story she gives.
They team up with a third person and take a rented car south.  They end up getting arrested due to the fact that the third person they hooked up with is transporting marijuana across state lines and had a suspended driver's license.  After they get released they need to find an alternate way south again.  They end up catching a train, but miss the right connection and end up traveling towards Chicago.  After they jump off this train they head for the closest Greyhound bus station, but it's closed for the night.  They end up spending the night at the local K-Mart killing time and buying some clothes and knick-knacks.
During some time at the local laundromat, (and this is all in the same night) they both get their money stolen while Affleck is sleeping, and Bullock is outside wrapping a present for a child.)
So, the next day they hitch a ride on one of those time share buses taking a ton of touristy elderly couples to Florida.
This pattern continues, where whatever method they use as transportation, it gets derailed and they get a lot of time to know each other over the course of a couple days.  They are very attracted to each other, but there's lots of things to keep them apart, like his soon to be wife, and the fact that Bullock is slowly admitting she's currently married, has been divorced, and has a 10 year old son.
SPOILER______________________________________________ALERT
I'm discussing the whole movie here.......so..................this is your last chance to stop reading if you have any desire to see this movie, though, I discourage that (seeing the film that is.)

So, they pretend to be married to stay on this tourist bus and end up having to stay the night at a local hotel.  It just so happens, the groom sees his best man there with the maid of honor.  They end up seeing him with Bullock and think he's having an affair.  They give him the chance to leave with them, but he can't leave Bullock.  He tells her his feelings for her and that he doesn't think he wants to get married after all.
The people on the bus are told by the best man and maid of honor that the groom is about to be married, but that's not his wife.  So they get kicked off that bus tour and run from paying the hotel bill.
Affleck ends up dancing at a gay bar to make enough money to afford a terrible old car to get down to Georgia with.
He and Bullock kiss and I enjoyed the development of their relationship.
MEANWHILE, back in Savannah, Affleck's soon to be bride is in touch with her fiancee every once in a while, but is still very concerned as to why it's taking him so long to get to her.
She attends some parties there with her friends to keep her mind busy and ends up meeting up with an old friend from high school.  He confesses he should've asked her out a long time and has strong feelings for her.
She's upset at the lack of her groom and ends up making out with this guy.
I don't think they sleep together, but she never reveals any of this to Affleck in the end either.
Anyways, Bullock and Affleck end up driving up to the house where he is to be married and there's a terrible storm happening.  Tables and flowers are blown over, everything is getting destroyed.  Affleck tells Bullock to wait for him as he goes in to tell his fiancee that he can't marry her.
He arrives and everyone is mad at him as he is very late.
He finds his girlfriend and they start talking.  He confesses he's always loved her from the minute he saw her and nothing will change that, but they should get married later on their honeymoon instead of during this terrible storm.  She says that her maid of honor has told her what she saw and says she believes Affleck and trusts him and knows he didn't cheat on her.
After the talk, Affleck turns back to find Bullock and sees that she's gone.  She was watching the two talk and figured they would end up staying together, so she went off to see her son.
Affleck and his girl end up getting married in Hawaii and the closing scenes show Bullock living with her son.
The end.

I was so disappointed.  This is not the way the movie should've ended.  I really liked the chemistry that Bullock and Affleck had.  The way the shots of the movie made it seem they balanced each other out nicely and really lived while they were together.   Affleck kept talking about how he didn't want to get married and how he was so attracted to Bullock. 
He just didn't have any chemistry with the girl he was supposed to marry, and she was off making out with someone else who had no doubt about he felt about her and desperately wanted to marry her.
Why not have Bullock and Affleck stay together and the jilted bride could've ended up with the old high school friend?
I would've enjoyed that much more.
So I liked it, up until the end and then the ending ruined it.

So for that, I can only give a 1 out of 5 for ruining what could've been a really good movie.