I wouldn't be on this board with this rant but I was lead to believe this was a good movie from critics. I was bamboozled! This movie is just plain bad. I wouldn't expect it to be so since Peter Weir's Green Card was an excellent movie.
This movie would is on par with TV movies. The acting is really subpar and the characters and not really engrossing. The story is just plain boring.
An overall bad movie.
Not bad, but rather obvious, broad and predictable in its handling of post traumatic crisis. Feels more like some streamlined Spielberg movie rather than something truly interesting or insightful.
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I really liked this film. Mostly for the acting and the relationship issues. I recommend it.
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Agree ~
And, I actually anticipated bits of the dialogue prior to the actors delivering the lines; also, when 'Max' gets that 'enlightened' look right before doing the toolbox thing, I knew exactly what he was going to do.
Those are just a few examples of the 'predictability' aspects of this movie for me.
I love Bridges, but I wouldn't call his acting excellent in this film.
Frankly, in some of the extended close-up shots, he has a rather dumb, open-mouthed look about him (which is too bad because he is quite an attractive man).
I didn't like the character of Max much. Yes; I know about some of the more subtle aspects of PTSD, that he had been through quite a rare experience, and that he was a conflicted man.
Just too bad that he couldn't comfort his own wife/child as he had done for others on the plane. The character came off too cold and, frankly, selfish to me, for me to care much about him (his experience, yes, but not the character himself).
There were some interesting aspects to this movie and I had no problem with the pacing. I liked the support group scenes. I liked the bits about the little boy who kept coming to visit Max. I loved the strength of Max' wife. The plane experience was very well done, IMHO.
Also, Hulce as the ambulance chasing attorney was a bit cliche and over the top, IMHO.
So, overall, I think it is worth a watch but I wouldn't call this film spectacular.
"I will not go gently onto a shelf, degutted, to become a non-book." ~ Bradbury
I think the OP is just a troll, baiting us. It's one thing to have valid critical opinions, but no one could be that stupid, to say the things they said about this film and mean it.
"Everyone else may be an a**hole, but I'm not!" - Harlan Ellison
I always find it funny when pseudo intellectuals excuse a mediocre screenplay simply because it appears clever, and they wanna feel clever by agreeing with the critics.
Gonna hit a nerve here - but people with real intelligence can see that it's pretty weak.
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I always find it funny when pseudo intellectuals excuse a mediocre screenplay simply because it appears clever, and they wanna feel clever by agreeing with the critics.
Gonna hit a nerve here - but people with real intelligence can see that it's pretty weak.
I was just wondering how the same Peter Weir could make such shlocky, predictable crap as Green Card when he has made some of the most intelligent, spiritual and thought-provoking films ever, including this one and my favorite of all time, Picnic at Hanging Rock.
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Really? I’ve always found it to be one of Bridges’s better lesser known movies.
shareI kinda agree -
At the same time, for those having gone through near-death experience, this may indeed be a film that would have a profound impact and allow them to process their emotions or lack thereof.
For me, in this phase of my life... I found it dull, despite having great actors in it.