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I burst out laughing when...

posted 10 years ago by mille-91651
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My husband and I had never seen this movie before and decided to watch it last night. Neither of us were enjoying the movie much at all - the acting was wooden, we didn't understand why the two main characters liked each other so much after a few sentences of poorly-written drivel, and their accents were pretty bad.

When the bird flies from the chapel and it cuts to Inman, who has just been shot, he has the most hilarious expression on his face. My husband and I both just burst out laughing! We stopped the movie and watched something else.

[–] cousinsKLG 9 years ago

Could not agree more. Hadn't seen this since it came out and I couldn't remember if I liked it or not. I'm about 25 mins in and it's laughable. How did they get all these normally good actors to be in this?? I feel like I'm watching a parody of Gone With the Wind.

[–] mille-91651 8 years ago

I'm so glad we're not the only ones!!

[–] redban (6776) 3 years ago

Wasn’t there a scene where Jude Law was getting nursed by the goat-lady... he starts crying and says, “I hardly know her”

Inman and Nicole Kidman’s character didn’t really know each other so well. They clung to each other more as a reaction to the war, as sort of a coping mechanism. When Kidman’s father died, she had nothing left, and that’s why she wrote Inman to say “Forget the war and come home.” She just needed someone, anyone. As for Law, he didn’t believe in the Confederate cause (he wasn’t racist at all), he got injured, and he experienced trauma. He saw Kidman, the woman he hardly knew, as a way out of the damn war.

[–] Wuchak (8855) a year ago

Also, don't discount the love-at-first-sight phenomenon -- a profound mutual attraction, perfect chemistry.

[–] Zarkoff (2395) 14 days ago

That's a great point. They didn't really have much. Nicole Kidman was something for Inman to cling to.

[–] GrayBush (100) 14 days ago

It's too bad we can not view these original posters list of postings. We'd get a better idea of who we're dealing with. Now we are left to our own prejudices.

[–] Zarkoff (2395) 14 days ago

I'm not sure what to make of your last sentence. I was just agreeing with Redban that it wasn't hard to believe that Inman or Nicole Kidman would fixate on each other like that, through the war.

[–] GrayBush (100) 13 days ago

I was stating that we can't consider the source when we are unable to pull up their history. It was nothing offensive or directed at the current posts here. I like the movie very much but I would seriously like to see what movies the original poster found entertaining.