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Liked it until the boat trip part

posted 11 years ago by A_Fistful_of_Pennies
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For me, I enjoyed this movie until they decide to go on a boat trip with strangers to New Orleans. It just felt like they needed to throw something in there to make the movie long enough. I personally felt their friendship developed pretty fast, they could have spent more time earlier in the movie building up to them becoming friends. I feel a kid like Erik would be more apprehensive about hanging out with Dexter at first. He basically just goes over there and they strike up a friendship fast. I feel it would be more powerful if Erik really didn't like Dexter at first and we see a major change in his character. I guess that's just me. The movie got pretty silly and unrealistic for me at the boat trip part. It also just felt like it dragged and wasn't really necessary.

[–] Sean_Pierce 11 years ago

I've said the same thing in another thread but YES.

I've recently rewatched this movie for the first time in years and I am mad at everything that went on with where the story went. Whole movie was great 'til the boat journey. I personally feel that the movie would have been so much better if they stayed at home and stretched the character development a bit there. I thought drinking that flower was a climatic point but then he they decide to go on a boat ride. Sigh. I loved everything about that suburban neighbourhood, the scenery was great, even the way some scenes were shot. There's a whole lot of stories you can tell between neighbours I mean. But they just had to go on a heart-felt boat journey that went no where. Such a wasted setpiece / opportunity for the whole movie.

David Gruisin's score for this movie is really the only high point. It even got nominated for best score at the '96 Grammy's.