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I liked it but...(spoiler)

posted 17 years ago by Jerry-137
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...I didn't like the ending. I hate it when the "hero" dies even though I guess that was the only possible ending unless they sent him to a POW camp and he came back and married the "heroine". I thought Julia Ormond was great, but the kid played by Antoine Van Lierde was excellent. Bill Paxton has never impressed me as an actor. I don't know why but there's just something that always tells me he's "acting" and I can never get into the character he plays.

I give it a 6+ for an entertaining hour and a half.

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[–] cmcurrie2 17 years ago

I thought 'Resistance' was fairly awful -- and I try to not be negative as everyone has their own preferences -- but the film seemed like a contrived effort to set up an extra-marital affair -- just to say it was justified, and oh, gasp, soooo romantic.

The boy who didn't follow his parents' compliance with the Nazis was a bright spot -- but then they reduced that to his need for hugs and entertainment.

The shopkeeper mini-plot was authentic and well acted, but as one of the other reviewers said of the Naxis -- she showed up from time to time when the film wasn't going somewhere else.

And the pilot -- saying he wanted to be seen in public, what were the writers/director trying to say? That his idiotic efforts to get them all killed by the Nazis was brave and heroic? I guess he lost a few brain cells in the crash. No excuse for the writer or director though.

The Resistance fighters deserve much better portrayal of their risks and sacrifices. And so do the military.

[–] dollfacecrafter 17 years ago

the book is way better in portraying the romance that develops over time (it is absolutely heart-breaking actually), I didn't like Bill Paxton in this, he seemed too wooden. the movie doesn't live up to the book, which tells the story before the plane crash and others survived the crash besides the pilot and he lives in the end. he doesn't "save" Claire like in the movie, she goes to prison for awhile and so does he, but they both survive and she has a baby, but it is mentally challenged because she was "starved" in prison. she never sees Ted again, but his son comes back to meet her and his "half-sister". she married again and moved to Spain.

[–] cmcurrie2 17 years ago

Thanks for the reply -- I now realize it was the screenwriter who turned out such a wayward characterization. The Resistance was an amazingly noble group -- they most definitely dewerved better -- during the war, from the Vichy governtment, after the war and now -- most people do not know how much the victory was because of their efforts.

[–] vicky_lc2001 (1907) 6 years ago

I liked Paxton in the ff films:

Aliens
Frailty
Weird Science