Amazing
I just paid $5 to watch this on Vimeo and it was worth it! It is a beautiful story and had me drawn in right away. The ending is thrilling and has the perfect amount of build up. Do yourself a favor and see this movie!!
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I too was initially pulled in because i'll watch anything Joss does; thankfully and like always he does not disappoint.
It's very good. Seriously.. the story is fresh and exciting. Go watch it!
It's sonic! Totally sonic! I am sonic-ed up!
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Just watched this on Vimeo too and LOVED it! I am usually more of a girl who likes boy type movies/shows like Avengers, Goodfellas, The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones etc..in other words, not much into Romance movies but this was REALLY REALLY great!!! Thought it would be just sort of a silly movie (okay I did literally laugh out loud at the slapping scene...LOL!) but this movie was trully a gem from beginning to end! Loved the two leads! Definitely worth the rental! Way to go Josh Whedon!!! Very impressed with the directing!
shareI'm a Buffy, Firefly, Avengers, Cabin in the Woods fan. Although the premise for this film drew me in, it really didn't make any sense story-wise.
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It wasn't that it was a fairytale, it wasn't really surreal, but the plot never added up.
Dude gets hit for losing to someone in pool? What?! That guy woulda been happy to win money.
Rebecca lies to everyone she knows about what's going on and just lets them think she's crazy, and they are villains because of it?! Not quite fair.
Both characters throw their whole lives away at the end to jump on a boxcar, with no future plans? She broke out of a mental institution and he's a wanted felon all because he wanted to run non-stop across the country to see her. There was no rush. Why would Dylan not just work with his parole officer to go see her? Giddens said there was nothing that would surprise him even. They never tell anyone about what's going on, when its something they could easily prove.
Dylan could have taken a cab to get her at the end but instead tries to rent a car without a license (why?) and then steals one!!! Why?!?!
Why didn't they buy bluetooth headsets so they had an excuse to talk?!?
It had issues, some of which you said, but nothing really that broke my suspension of disbelief. Some dude at the bar could have any number of issues going on and I don't mind that he didn't behave rationally. In the moment I just assumed he'd lost the next game and blamed the protagonist.
But, yeah, the ending was sort of contrived or rushed. I think that the stakes weren't communicated well -- his actions would make a lot more sense if she had no hope of exiting the institution, or at least not with her soul intact somehow. That her husband was being vindictive and punishing her for what he'd been told took a little too much inference, as well. Highlighting that might have helped ease the previous issue.
Her husband was definitely a villain from the get-go, though. I hated him from the very first party scene, for substantive reasons. And her "friend" was pretty obviously somebody who liked spreading gossip and seeing relationships destroyed. I think that was made maybe too abundantly clear in the short amount of time she was a significant scene presence.
I don't mind that they don't tell anybody. Yes, they could prove it if they were able to arrange all the parties to be in contact, but getting to that point would be a nightmare of uncertainties, and not wanting to do it -- especially when you've grown up with this sense of sharing your viewpoint with some unseen presence -- makes emotional sense to me.
I totally wondered that about the car rental scene too. Maybe he had credit cards or something, but even then he'd just be a bad criminal for using them so he could be tracked. It shouldn't have even made the script.
I didn't worry about the bluetooth headsets really, although I should have since her car was a 2010. I saw his flip phone and no other notable gadgets, so I think it just felt like early 2000s to me.
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