After watching the movie, the least I can say is that the movie should be having ratings at least in the lower 8s just for the great performances it has.
In addition the movie knows when to laugh, cry or care for it's characters showcasing if you will the "humanness" of it's characters.
Because its a pastiche of scenes that come to together to present nothing!!! I love quiet people films like Stanley and Iris, or Franky and Johnny, the Pacino/Pfieffer version, and Tortilla Soup.
But this movie was nothing but a bunch of actors scurrying around like around when the studio lights came on. Aurora is always pregnant and Emma calling night and day, talk to Flap, talk to Aurora it or to into it. One repetitive scene after another. They move here then move there, he is always late to class blah deblah deblah. And in the end. Zilch to go away with at the end of the film. Ive never seen Shirley Mclaine in such an out of steam character. A waste. And Jack Nicholson???? An older fatter Randall P McMurphy with brain intact. Thats all he was with a touch of Witches of Eastwick in his swagger.
It's the proof that most IMDb users don't appreciate such brilliant films which are touching perfection in every aspect and is a result of collaborative contribution of acting, directing, screenplay, music...
I believe this film is totally underrated. For me is one of the most perfect films and none every managed to even touch it.
Watching so many years the rating in this site I observed that most people cant control their enthusiasm. That's why every new film is released is rated so high and soon you can watch it in top 250 without even deserving to be high rated from some others. People don't consider this. Some others films though get low rating before even get released because people are so prejudice about them. It's been a long time since I stopped being rely on IMDb's ratings.
Cause its international!!!
I gave this a 6.
I like the story, it's a movie focused entirely on people and their lives.
I don't like the execution that much, however. The movie tends to feel unnatural, the drama is always stylized, Debra Winger is always on "Debra Winger mode" (too many mannerisms, unnecesary little screams here and there, her usual quirky character), Jack Nicholson is in "Jack Nicholson mode" (suave, smiling little devil trying to seduce women, with a touch of maniac), Shirley MacLaine is always in "Actor's studio mode".
Scene after scene of the three leads trying to upstage everybody, like I said, this is a stylized drama, too stylized for my taste. I don't see people, I see actors trying to be as dramatic as possible, even when it's not needed. Nothing subtle. Oddly enough, I think the most realistic performance here, was delivered by comedian John Lithgow.
I do think, however, that this is a good, adequate movie.
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Its because the best film ever is apparently The Shawshank Redemption, at least according to IMDB. I don't get it. When Shawshank came out, nobody even heard about it until it started coming on TV every weekend years later.
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It's underrated...they don't make movies like this anymore. All the good dramas are on television now anyway. The mindless rabble will only flock to explosions, shiny things, CGI and the like at the theater. Most wouldn't have the attention span to sit through TOE nor understand it's meaning.
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