Things that bothered me...


Overall I found this movie to be watchable. Things that bothered me however...

1) Why didn't Adaline google Harrison Ford at some point since the advent of the internet? She would have known he was an accomplished astronomer and made the connection when Ellis mentioned his family. Did she not google Ellis either? For someone who was in fear of the law, I would think she would do some recon work on (creepy/stalker-y) gentlemen callers like Ellis. It seemed like Ellis was pretty high profile and internet article or wiki would have mentioned his father.

2) And, yes, Jones is a very common last name. But if I were Adaline and the ONLY men I decided to be with in the 60 years since I've been running from whoever were both named Jones as a last name, I would do some digging. She was way too intelligent and wise to not ask questions or google.

3) I didn't sense the chemistry between Adaline and Ellis. Surely Adaline over the decades must have met other men that she had much more chemistry with. I find it hard to imagine that Ellis' game was that awesome that it made Adaline break her rules and let her guard down a little. I just didn't see it with them.

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4) Am I the only one who wanted her to end up with Harrison Ford? The characters seemed to have quite a connection, at least in flashbacks and she did love him. He loved her so much. I kept hoping they would kiss at the end lol. I think that if she didn't end up with Harrison Ford, she shouldn't have been with Ellis. Ending up with your former love's son is weird! She should have cut her losses, leave that family alone and date someone else.



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i didn't really see why she wanted to be in a relationship with anyone. What was the point? Nothing ahead for her but heartache and loss as he grows old and she stays young. The most unbearable thing though would be outliving her daughter - every parent's worst nightmare is to outlive their children, and for her it is an inevitability. it's a horrific existence. What happens to her is a horror story, but it is disguised as a sentimental romance.

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Just watched half of this today because Harrison Ford was in it but I didn't even make it to when he finally had his bit part in the movie. The two leads are horrible. When she first met him and got into the taxi I thought, thank God, he is not going to be in the movie anymore. Then I realized he was on the movie poster.

It reminded me of why I don't watch sweet, syrupy, romantic movies. It's such a fake and shallow world. Not as bad as Disney used to be but still extremely dull. Though I'm sure everyone can relate to these two and the upper echelons of San Francisco society. I'm all for romance but he just kept plugging away and it became so annoying. At least the lead female character gets to see her beloved SF taken over by the Silicon Valley people.

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Also, Adaline met William when he was in medical school. When she got to know Ellis, he talked about his father being an astronomer on faculty at Stanford. Plus with a last name like Jones, I doubt she'd have her guard or suspicion up. She met him at a high society NYE party, so she was in her element meeting an Ellis type without feeling a need to google him. Plus she was so closed off to love that she didn't even think in terms of modern dating with google searches. She was a class act. I wouldn't google a person I just met, I'd just go with the flow, because the truth always comes out and though he seemed aggressive in wooing her, he also seemed very kind and intelligent, and megarich. She just finally opened herself up to a dalliance with Ellis knowing she was moving away, wham bam thank you man.

I'm just wondering if Adaline could get pregnant. Nothing screamed menopausal about her, so maybe she didn't want to get pregnant again after having an 80+ y/o child.

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Yeah, the writer didn't really have to make the guy the father of Ellis. They could have gone to a party, for example, and the guy could have been an older mentor instead.

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It's because actor Michiel Huisman has no charisma at all. Yet they keep putting him in movies.
He was horrible as Daario Naharis 2.0

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