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Absolutely boring

posted 15 years ago by miizsasha
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SPOILERS! SPOILERS! SPOILERS!

I found Tideland absolutely boring. The point of Jeliza becoming friends with Dell and Dickens didn't go anywhere. In the end, Dickens eventually sets off his dynamite to kill the Monster Shark, which in reailty is a passenger train, and caused a train wreck. Then.. Jeliza finds her way to the wreck, Dell is looking for Dickens, a bit of blah blah blah, and then fire flies.

But before the snooze fest ended, in no particular order...

Jeliza and Dickens become "silly kissers", Dell and Dickens preserves Jeliza's dad, they all tidy up the grandma's house, have Thumper for dinner, Dell bangs the delivery boy, there's a bee story, a squirrel's life, four doll heads, and some more bing bong gong with imagination in between.

Point is, nearly two hours of my Sunday afternoon was wasted.

[–] marousha_n 11 years ago

Let's see:

The point of Jeliza becoming friends with Dell and Dickens didn't go anywhere.

If Jeliza-Rose wouldn't have befriended Dell in the first time, no one would have preserved her father's body, he would have rot eventually. Probably the child services would have taken her.
If she wouldn't have met Dell and followed her, she wouldn't have met Dickens. The thing that saved Jeliza-Rose from the abandoned house was the train wreck caused by Dickens. He only had the courage to blow up the "big shark" after he met and befriended her.

Then.. Jeliza finds her way to the wreck, Dell is looking for Dickens, a bit of blah blah blah, and then fire flies.

Did you completely ignore the part when the woman found her and took her under her wing? Or the fact that in that moment she was a child again, mentally unharmed by all the horrors that happened?

Friendly advice: stop watching movies that require you to think or have a bit of imagination. Stick to some popcorn action flicks, for sure those ain't boring.

"Hollywood is run by small-minded people who like chopping the legs off creative people" T.Gilliam