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Two *beep* kids ruined the movie.


God, talk about annoying, obnoxious kids. A shame they didn't bite it during the opening credits.

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IMHO, the writing is seriously flawed by the unnecessary and annoying distraction of the dysfunctional family story.

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IMHO, the writing is seriously flawed by the unnecessary and annoying distraction of the dysfunctional family story.

True, but this is a Spielberg film - dysfunctional families/absent fathers are part of his motif. It's like he can't help himself.

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Really? What other movies where that's a motif? Anyway, the dysfunctional family stuff seemed unimaginative, unnecessary, and annoying to me. If the story could've used a negative family situation to contrast with them pulling together in crisis there are more effective scenarios.

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E.T. - absent father

Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade - "it was just the two of us, Dad. It was a lonely way to grow up..."

The Color Purple - dysfunctional family

A.I. Artificial Intelligence - dysfunctional family

Close Encounters of the Third Kind - dysfunctional family & absent father (cos of them pesky aliens)

Jurassic Park - absent father (and mother) + annoying kids...



There's probably more.


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Now that you mention it it is true that a lot of movies out of Hollywood feature atypically negative Amercian family situations. I am not surprised.

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Basically, I agree, but I think that only Robbie needed to be eliminated. Then, a less screamy Rachel would have made for a perfectly serviceable child-in-peril movie.

Spielberg missed and easy one.
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The son was a little *beep* and the daughter was likeable at first by by the end I was wishing she'd get killed just to stop her constant screaming from battering my ears.

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whoever wrote their parts needs to be slapped in the face
i don't blame the actors one bit

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It would be pretty refreshing if instead of a dysfunctional family being the main characters, it should be a completely wholesome and functional family, complete with the best morals, and values. Kids respecting their parents, and parents making choices that protect their family, without arguing amongst each other.

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