Costner is enjoying a morning coffee when an unnecessarily angry man walks into the restaurant and starts running his mouth. The fight in Message is a sudden blast of middle-aged violence. It is refreshing to have a brawl between two grown men who have a decent feud. I went through the fights and deduced that the Message in a Bottle brawl is the best of the bunch due to the sheer randomness of it. A one-dimensional jerk does something jerky and the hero punches him. During a morning breakfast at a diner Kevin Costner gets into a slugfest with his deceased wife’s brother that involves chairs, tables and butt kicks. It feels totally out-of-place and it got me thinking about other fights in Nicholas Spark’s films. Amid all the schmaltz there was one scene that really stuck out. The book was written by Nicholas Sparks and the adaptation cemented down a blueprint for the following Spark’s films (lots and lots of melodrama). I recently watched the totally pointless 1999 film Message in a Bottle. “There’s nothing more enduring than watching Kevin Costner engage in an all out brawl in a romantic film written by Nicholas Sparks” That is the quote that opens up Nicholas Spark’s new movie The Best of Me. “There’s nothing more enduring than first love.”
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