I didn't hate it, but...


I guess I just didn't really get it. What was the point?!

My two best girl friends, and one of my best guy friends all just watched this.

It was okay... I don't feel like I wasted my time, though my friends sort of do... but I just don't really understand why.

I realized tonight that BOTH Robert Downey Jr (the love of my life for 20+ years) and Shia LaBeouf (my newfound cougar crush) were in it, and I literally raced down to the store and picked it up.

They were both great.

But it was slow and weird and pointless.

Can someone change my mind? I so wanted to love it.

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agreed especially that channing tatum was in it too... i just think the ending was just so BLAH that it left me wanting more




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Well, i doubt you'll check this, since this is coming pretty late but what is the point to any movie?

The point of this movie isn't to have some big, grand twist or anything like that (which American audiences have gotten so used to), it's a coming of age tale. It's supposed to teach a moral lesson.

It's him coming to terms with his past and being a real man. It's emotional fare between diverse characters. It's like a roller coaster. You don't go on for the "end," you go on for the ride. The ups and downs and what not.

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I get that, it just didn't seem like his life was a tale worth telling. It was like a snapshot into just ole anyone's life.

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"I get that, it just didn't seem like his life was a tale worth telling. It was like a snapshot into just ole anyone's life."

Seriously?

First of all, I hardly think this guy's life was run-of-the-mill. Secondly, I think anyone's tale is worth telling as long as it is done well. Most great films, in my opinion, are the ones that capture human emotion and the highs and lows of life. This is a story about loyalty/disloyalty, guilt, redemption, love, etc. People who live in areas like that not only have to deal with the danger and violence but they also have to make the decision to either stay and live in those conditions or to try to get out and abandon everyone they have ever cared about. Also, the relationships between these characters and the way they are all fleshed out (kind of amazing how the real Dito even empathizes with the guy who killed Mike, which is revealed to us with that "no conscience" monologue) is really amazing. Its one thing if you just couldn't really get into it or if you thought it was depressing or something but I don't see how you could think there is no point to it.

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This is in reply to the person who spooky just replied to (same person that i replied to)

I'm going to take a shot in the dark here, and guess that maybe you aren't that old? Say, less than fifteen years of age?

If so, i could understand why one (at that age) would have a hard time understanding why this guy's life was something to write a movie about.

Most people, before a certain age, aren't going to appreciate character dramas because they haven't had these emotions and/or interactions such as the ones presented in the movie, and thus can not identify with it, or even understand the depth of it.

If you are, however, older than that (which certainly could be a possibility), then maybe you aren't a hardcore movie fan.

I remember being pleased by movies such as Saw and Taken (which, if you don't mind some mindlessness are good in their own right, and just to add, because of nostalgic value, i look back on them fondly) before i actually started to really get into films.

Really, you just have to watch more films. Then you'll start to understand why the diversity of characters and the bounty of emotions to be found in this movie are actually quite welcome. So many movies today rely on the same cheap tricks, tactics, and stock characters to appease casual audiences.

Movies such as this, which don't get critical acclaim for that very reason, are doomed to be unmentioned. Regardless, they are beautiful movies, and as such, should be treated in that regard.

Hopefully my post has shed some light on this debacle.

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"I get that, it just didn't seem like his life was a tale worth telling."

I think that sums it up perfectly.

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On the opposite of you, I hated it and felt like I wasted my time.
As you said, Shia and Robert did a good job, but the film wasn't worth it.

Boycott movies that involve real animal violence! (and their directors too)

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