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i just can't get into it

posted 12 years ago by LTUM
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i want to, and i am trying to. i think it's well made, well cut. but my writing teacher once said he has a hard time enjoying a movie where the viewer is supposed to root for the bad guy.

and that is how i feel with this one. i am not sympathetic to them at all because they are doing ray liotta so wrong. i can't excuse that. i can't look gently upon their 'romance' when it built upon another person's loss and hurt.

and just because they want to, doesn't make it okay.

this is what is wrong with the culture now, all around, people so any thing they want to regardless if it hurts another. so be it. they say what the hell, i am getting what i want so it doesn't matter if you lose something in the bargain.

she said 'i never felt this happy, i never felt this' ...i am sorry but that is not a justification.

this is why i don't like this movie.

drugs...changed...everything..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8MGBn3KawM&feature=related

[–] LTUM 12 years ago

to add to what i said, the premise is flawed IMO

to compare this to the count of monte cristo is ridiculous. edmond dantes was not an immoral character, and had not wronged his friend. the friend was the immoral one, with envy and jealousy as his motives. so that was a moral man beset upon by an immoral man, giving the moral man a revenge motivation over time. he had a legitimate beef.

but in this lame movie, joseph feines was wrong IN THE FIRST PLACE to go pursuing another man's wife. so when he got 'punished' ...IMO he deserved that. i would have beat his narrow arse too.

then he shows up later all noble and checking in on his 'lover' whom shouldn't be his lover at all, anyway, since she is married.

nah, the whole thing is just jacked. and after seeing this, and how schafer made an antihero out of travis in taxi driver, i see a pattern emerging; he has kinky needs and gets his rocks in these movies he makes

that's my take on it.

but again, comparing this to count of monte cristo is ridicuous

drugs...changed...everything..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8MGBn3KawM&feature=related