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This movie is an affliction...

posted 17 years ago by Mccadoo
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My god, this had to be the most depressing piece of crap I've ever seen, but unlike movies like "Leaving Las Vegas" which at least has some redeeming qualities, this movie is just a black hole.

I wouldn't have a thing to do with any of the characters in this movie. And yes, I know such people exist but the rest of us usually spend our lives avoiding them. Why in the world would I want to watch a movie about them.

A total piece of crap.

And if anyone out there is reading this and rushing to their key board to tell me that I've missed the "message" this movie puts forth don't bother, because I didn't because there isn't one. And besides, if you're looking for life messages in a movie starring Nick Nolte then you need to GET a life.

The title says it all.

And it's two hours of my life that I'll never get back.

[–] Disardor 10 years ago

There's no purpose ("message" makes it sound like a work of art wants to teach you a life lesson) to this movie or in the novel upon which it's based? What an arrogant fool you sound like. The Defoe character sums up the basic point of the film when he says that an entire generation of young men had its capacity to love and be loved ruined by fathers like Wade's. That's the point. That's the "affliction."