Wow, this is a powerful movie from an older point of view.
Sam Elliot is a great actor and just sucks you into this guy's
world. It is amazing.
I am wondering what the heck was the think with the Laura
Prepon character? Is that the viciousness and aimlessness
of youth, or major unresolved daddy issues?
It was very cold what she did, and yes there are women like
this.
It was a very different type of movie.
I wasn't surprised at what Charlotte, Laura Prepon's character did. When she admitted she was a comedian, I had a sinking feeling where it would go. She took a life experience and expounded on it. When Lee told her what was going on, she showed how much she cared about him, she didn't bail out on him.
It had a very abrupt ending, you had to guess he would have the procedure, work on his relationship with his daughter, and be happy with Charlotte during the time he had left.
I felt bad for him when that reading got to him and he couldn't handle it.
Sam Elliot is great and he did very well in this role.
>> When she admitted she was a comedian, I had a sinking feeling where it would go.
Then you are a lot more clever than I because I did not see that coming. But I also wondered why the Sam Elliot character would even talk to her after that humiliation. His character was very trusting, or maybe he was just horny for some young stuff.
They make it sound like pancreatic cancer is just this thing that other than knowing you are going to die fairly soon with a relative high probability that you are OK, but I do not think that is true, there is a lot of pain. Also, is Charlotte going to be there for him through chemo and all that?
I guess it is a major credit that Sam Elliot can make all this come to live in a believable way, but to me that kind of made the movie sad and a cheat. It said really nothing about the human condition, except between the lines of what was a kind of silly movie. The scenes were good though as you said, both with Charlotte and his drug dealing friend.
Movies like this give me a kind of insight into how they conceive a movie and make it tease people into its world. If you like Sam Elliot you might check out the series Justified where he plays a kind of crime kingpin with the same intensity. Mary Steenburgen is also in Justifed, also playing a scary criminal type!
"I wasn't surprised at what Charlotte,..."
I knew where that was going as well. It reminded me of an episode of "One Day at a Time" where the mother dates a comedian...and then she's surprised when he talks about her during his act.
I was hoping for more from this movie. Although I did like the recording at the beginning (his voice was great for that commercial), and the emotions he portrayed regarding an award he felt he didn't deserve that he was receiving from a group that he'd never heard of.
I'm glad I watched the movie... worth it just to see Sam Elliot carry this movie... he does...
It's a smaller movie than it needs to be, but that is the way things are these days and Elliot makes the film feel a lot bigger and more naunced than it is...
Yes, but Elliot really does deserve a great role, and this this was not it. He is really good in justified playing the bad guy.
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