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Inapropriate behavior

posted 18 years ago by Jeffthinx
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I like Cher, and I like legal dramas (especially when they involve officials behaving with malfeasance). But I just hate it when the filmaker injects inappropriate behavior (in this case contact between the attorney and a juror...and extraneous romantic contact on top of that). Gees, do filmakers think so little of viewers that they think their movies won't sell if they don't have some sex involved?...well, I guess that was a naive question. This could have been a better movie if they'd given the investigative prowess to Cher and left the Dennis Quaid character out completely. Let her have a boyfriend (Dennis Quaid, if they really wanted him in this film) if they want some romance. They could even have had him helping her. I just watched "Jagged Edge" (Glenn Close and Jeff Bridges-1985), and they did the same thing in that one too. Good movies both of these, I just wish they'd stop this irrelevent and unrealistic crap. I can't think, off the top of my head, of a movie which DOESN'T do this kind of thing. Any suggestions?

[–] onemansf8-1 18 years ago

A time to kill didn't have any of that nonsense. Though I doubt Matthew and Samuel would have done a sex scene with one another. LOL!

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[–] tbcuz 16 years ago

How else would you get women to watch without the anti-intellectual cheap romance novel injections?

[–] Jeffthinx 16 years ago

Well tbcuz, you might start by not assuming that women are anti-intellectual cheap romance beings. Are you as sexist as you sound? Or is it people like you for whom the film makers put in this gratuitous crap?

[–] TrentinaNE 15 years ago

The Quaid character's motivation was really murky. I couldn't figure out why he cared so much about this. Was he just hot for Cher's attorney and wanting to make her see that she'd misjudged him when she learned he was a lobbyist?

[–] bobbydallas (8099) 3 years ago

i also think if he didn't wanna bang her he wouldn't give a rat's ass about the case..

guessing the movie tried to portray him as juror #8 from Twelve Angry Men and failed miserably.