This film is garbage.

Glad you liked it. However, the premise that he would give the store clerk a loaded gun and keep an unloaded gun on him and expect to get away with it is unreasonable at best. They were attempting to make the character a "good guy", but it just ended up coming off as lame and unrealistic to me. It's silly that such tactics could consistently work for a petty crook.

Awful film. By far the worst "couple on the run" movie I've ever seen. There is no sensation of the lead characters even being on the run. This movie makes "Pure Danger" look like a masterpiece.

I guess your parents were hoping that you'd understand the point of "The Way We Were", because in some way, it probably related to them, but weren't able to convey it in any other means than having you watch it. The film is actually more difficult and relates to themes that a ten-year-old might find hard to grasp.

Long story short for "The Way We Were":
If memory of the synopsis of "The Way We Were" (which I haven't seen) read from Wikipedia serves me right, then the point of it was that two people deeply in love with one another had to give up a lot to be together in tenuous times, but eventually split for greener pastures to have a life — or what they thought life meant for them at the time — lest they be forced to be much worse off by events and powers beyound their control.

Time moved on and they met again, being in an age past their prime youth. Reminiscing, they realized that they were actually at their best when staying together when young, yet far too many events had gone past, and they had grown too much apart of one another throughout all that time to be like the way they were.

In my view, the movie probably warns people not to break precious relationships too easily, advising them to ponder the merits of a loving relationship further than just face value. The film also suggests that young people (perhaps by their nature) possess lesser amounts of detachment to recognize the gift of love in their midst.

(Note: Deeming my text a bit more valuable, I published all this first in a blog post, because forum threads here are deleted after their storage quota reaches a limit and new forum threads crop up.)

I'm watching this film in this very moment, in the (probably doomed) hopes that Watty and Starlene or what her name was will be captured in the end, but I doubt it.

So far, we have Watty running around acting nervous, while Starlene gives him the doe-eye look.. and they just married.. having to threaten the guy with a gun (and who said romance was dead?). This is too much for my sensitive system. I usually like movies like this, but Starlene's braindead behavior just annoys me. "Oh, Watty, do whatever you want, as long as you marry me and don't bring your criminal pals to our home."

EDIT: And I failed to watch it to the end. *feels shame*
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"Yahemar! Of course we don't let him go!"

wow, i never realised that was peter fonda. i thought it was some unknown stacey keach copy. i came across it on showtime i'm pretty sure, i didn't get it, but what made it enjoyable for me was that parent who made those funny sounds with her voice.


what's waiting up front,
where do they come from,
trouble from all directions since a while on,
fearful soul,
remind me i don't belong,
and any day now i'll be gone,
couse from all directions,
they're out to get me,
no peaceful days, trouble won't let me,
when the evening sun is over town,
they may break your door down,
haunt you on some meadow ground,
never know when it may come around,
gonna have a last bite of cake,
as i'm hiding in the shade.