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This movie is false

posted 9 years ago by NotSlowScott
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I don't know about you, but I love a good tearjerker. Untamed Heart and Terms of Endearment are great movies. I even enjoyed The Fault of our Stars quite a bit. This movie needed to calm down and take some Ritalin. It has an identity crisis. It is like the filmmakers wanted to make a tearjerker that appeals to the teenagers, but also wanted to gain critical respect from film snobs, so they added a bunch of weird camera angles and strange plot points as a way to show that they are fresh and original filmmakers. If they got rid of half of that garbage, the film might've worked. It is a shame, because the simple premise sounded interesting.

[–] ColinInLa 9 years ago

So, you would have made different artistic choices. Check.

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[–] NotSlowScott 9 years ago

What does check mean? It is like they wanted to make a sentimental tearjerker, but in other ways wanted to make something unusual and unsentimental. So they made a Wes Anderson version of a tearjerker. Basically when one sees a bad movie that has potential, you wish the filmmakers had made different choices, which would've resulted in a better movie. Just my opinion. If you like the movie, knock yourself out.