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Had Potential To Be Tremendous But Sunk Into Sappiness

posted 17 years ago by who_wants_a_pony
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why the funk would they kill off the mother ??

just horrible.

then the movie got bogged down at that point and turned into a sappy mess.

had the potential to be a great film.

[–] muetze-nein-hut 17 years ago

What are you, expecting lenthy replies to that?

[–] dshortt-1 16 years ago

Just watched this movie, and I agree with the OP. There was some interesting camera work and the acting was satisfactory, but the story itself was overly - sentimental, even mawkish, and the plot was predicatable, cliched, and contrived. 6/10 in my books.

[–] rosabelverde_1127 16 years ago

I couldn't disagree more.

Regards, Rosabel

[–] rosabelverde_1127 16 years ago

why the funk would they kill off the mother ??

And why not, for heaven's sake? Don't those things ever happen? That's a funny question, I have to say.

It would have been nice if you had marked your thread title as containing spoilers, BTW.

Regards, Rosabel

[–] jack_helltoy 15 years ago

I disagree with the OP as well.
Quite the opposite.. I don't think it got overly sentimental or sappy at all.
It could have, and looked like it might head in that direction a couple of times, but never took it too far.
In fact, I thought the story took a couple of nasty, unexpected twists that made it all the more more interesting.

[–] timlin-4 11 years ago

Oh, come on, the final scene couldn't have been more melodramatic