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For Hardcore Baleheads Only

posted 12 years ago by country_woman
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Hardcore baleheads are a notably unchoosy lot. All that a movie requires to be good is Christian Bale.

Anyone else will see this movie for what it is: a wildly implausible eco-fable full of unrealistic characters and plot holes.

First, the Bale character gets away with causing the road death of a truck driver. This major plot strand is never dealt with. He just wanders off and doesn't have to answer for his actions in causing a serious accident.

Second, John Hurt character is an escaped murderer. He killed his wife because she was materialistic. Not only that, but he ends up with a lot of cash money to live on the rest of his life. None of this is dealt with. It's ridiculous, as well as immoral. Is it really right to kill a woman because she wasn't as into ecology as Hurt was?

Then the whole last act turned into a cheapo action revenge flick.

Bale's performance was very good but this movie was a stinker.

I think he should be embarrassed about this, not NEWSIES.

[–] daidvito 12 years ago

I don´t think it was necessary to focus on that matters, whenn the film is only trying to capture the pure nature. I mean it shows evething that conforms nature, from the litlle animals that haven't the ability to think, to the human who has it, but lost his/her concious from time to time. Those things that you mention are part of nature, god, bad, naive. I don´t think it´s a movie to discuss, it just showing how nature works in all their states.

Sorry for my bad english. Hope you get the idea.

[–] Great_Gothamite 11 years ago

You might want to put a spoiler alert on the subject line. Just sayin'. Here's my own SPOILER ALERT for this post.

I don't think anybody apart from Mr. Summers witnessed the truck crash, so responding authorities must've assumed it was just another road accident.

As for Mr. Summers' shady past, I don't think he killed his wife for not being into the environment like he was, although that may have been part of the reason, or simply the straw that broke the camel's back. He says she was "false". I took that to mean that she was a deceiver. She only married him for his money, and it's possible she may have also been unfaithful to him. One day he just couldn't take her lies anymore and he snapped. He also burned her body, I think. If the police can't find a body, he can't be charged with murder. Not so sure how he got away with all that money, though. That one's a bit harder for me to believe. Maybe bank security was more lax back when he did the deed, probably some 20 years earlier.

EDIT: I was going though the other threads just now and I saw someone mention that Mr. Summers simply withdrew all of his money from the bank. He didn't actually rob it. I'll have to watch the movie again to be sure.