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This is a great movie?? You must be kidding!

posted 10 years ago by rukaku
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It is really surprising that so many viewers think this is a great movie. It is just another mediocre movie with a good idea.

The performances of Jeff Bridges and Tim Robbins was appalling. They have set the high standards with Big Lebowski and Shawshank Redemption or (Mystic River). The direction was very amateurish. And the plot holes and discontinuity in the scenes is explicit. I can list some great thriller movies for the deluded people that think that this movie is great: Se7en, silence of the lambs, psycho, shutter island, memento, sixth sense, gone girl, kill the messenger...(the list is endless).Arlington Road might be in the bottom half of the thrillers list. Just because the plot is about terrorism, people feel the compulsion or maybe feel "safe" by liking the movie. And for goodness sake please stop portraying this as a classic.

This movie is not a classic. It is far from being a decent one.

[–] morganseer 8 years ago

I'm with you, rukaku. On every point. I just saw this for the second time because I couldn't remember the ending. In fact, I couldn't remember most of the movie. I made myself finish it, but kept wanting to turn the tv off. Both the direction and performances felt mediocre to me.

[–] avatassos2004 8 years ago

well guess i drank the cool aid ...
i thought it was great from beginning to end. i loved the twists.
as for your choices of films, good pics. although with.. gone baby gone i thought it was garbage. not a fan of the...c word. hardly needed to make a great film

[–] dolemite72 (150) 7 years ago

I detest both SHAWSHANK and LEBOWSKI (as prime examples of 'Emporer's new clothes'......and little else)
Alongside the garbage you listed like SE7EN, SH*TTER ISLAND, MEMENTO, SIXTH SENSE, GONE GIRL and KILL THE MESSENGER.

Yet I love ARLINGTON ROAD (almost as much as I love BREAKDOWN)