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Lifetime movie? (SPOILER ALERT, not that you should see this movie)

posted 16 years ago by fmmulholland-1
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I saw this on a friend's recommendation. Its pretty much horrible. Its a bad lifetime movie.

7 oscar nominations? are you kidding me? Just goes to show you what those awards mean.

"I say them in praise...I say them in regret...Lowenstein, Lowenstein." Oh, so lovingly whispered on the wind...Come on...that is ridiculous. Its terrible, stupid writing. So cheesy.

And how could three people get raped, a front door get broken into, half the living room furniture and a number of dishes and lamps get destroyed, 3 soaking wet people get killed, two with a shotgun and one with a knife (COME ON, imagine the blood and bullet holes in the wall!!), 3 bodies get buried on the property in pouring rain, and then dad comes home to dinner and has no idea anything happened? I understand he was supposed to be emotionally detached and sort of dumb, but come on. And what time was dinner? Midnight?

This movie was terrible and tiring. I cannot believe anyone with a straight face could nominate this for best picture or would even make a movie out of this story.

"Lowenstein, Lowenstein" come on, give me a break. so stupid.

[–] dav0002-2 16 years ago

To each their own.

[–] highdopaminelevel 16 years ago

as i've just decoded from reading your comment, you didn't like the movie--a lot..or you wouldn't have said as many a stabbing adjectives to describe this movie..i've seen it and i find it to be a fantastic movie and a beautiful adaptation--as you might find VERY hard to believe..i don't know about the 7 Oscar nominations cause that's pretty hard to explain, now is it? maybe you can ask the New York Times why the book where this is based on-which curiously has the same title as this movie- became a #1 best seller for them..or why it has been called the "love story of our time" by critics who might i add actually read the book..i don't know what you would've done if this movie did win an Oscar..jump off a cliff? lie in front of a speeding train? embed a bullet in your brain?

Come to the supermarket in Old Peking..