Dumb movie


This movie sucks. It is such a waste time. It tries hard to be like an American movie while at the same time trying to establish a Dutch/European identity (in the vain of "we're cool too!!). The movie steals ideas from American movies (Meg Ryan's fake orgasm scene from when Harry met Sally) and the overdone insecure girl finding her true self. What really irritated me were this underlying and at times overt superficial comments about Americans in general. This weird self-congratulatory European Ennui in NYC demonstrated by characters like Gupje and Phileine along with the not so thinly disguised Dutch feelings/thoughts of false superiority are just super boring and irritating to stomach.

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I totally agree. I also found that the final tirade against doing sex scenes was undermined by all the sex scenes that happened before.

I really wanted to like this, because a friend of my wife was in it, but it really was 90 minutes of my life wasted.

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I read the book today and I thought it would be a good idea to watch the movie on the same day. I reckon I should've sticked just to the book.

I actually quite liked the book. There are some good paragraphes and some nice dialogue. But so much was cut out of the book, the movie is just bits and pieces. I saw 'Ik omarm je met 1000 armen' (also from Ronald Giphart) yesterday, that movie is so much better than this one. Said movie is a real dutch movie, everything in it is dutch. This one reminds me more of American cinema (and I don't mean the good movies). Of course, you might say it's because it's shot in America. It's not that, it's the feeling you get when you've finished the movie. Yesterday, it kept running through my head. I actually felt kinda heavy. When I read the book today, I felt kinda heavy again. With heavy I mean that it doesn't get stuck in your cold clothes (like we Dutch people say...) After this movie I felt nothing. It was a weak masturbation (like we Dutch people say...again) of the book.

BTW, gareth, who was the friend of your wife, if you don't mind me asking.

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Everything in moderation.
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WTF!!!!
This movie is awsome!!!!!!
It's hilarious!

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The movie ís dumb, I loved the book though! Ronald Giphart is AWSOME!!!
They should've sticked to the book, they used some jokes from the book, but if you havn't read it, you don't understand them. It was a waist of the casts's time!
(But I do think Kim van Kooten was perfect for Phileine.)


'En iets harder, misschien wel té hard, voegde ik eraan toe: 'Sorry dat ik besta.'

AFTITELING

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Funny that all the people in this topic, who call the movie dumb, can't even spell. Oh well, this movie isn't a good movie, but it's a fun movie.
If you don't like this movie, don't bitch about it, toddle your way to your nearest store and rent something different.

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I don't mind the "I don't like this movie" attitude. Cause I can easily understand why you do or don't like the movie. It's the arrogant American attitude that bothers me. Who the hell do you think you are, you think you're the only ones that can make movies? "oh no, they stole from that. The movie wants to be American so bad!" Wake up people, there are other countries besides yours too. And you say that with every movie! Nightwatch, a russian movie? It just tries so hard to be American.

Not everyone wants to be American, get over it!

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http://former.imdb.com/title/tt0376994/board/thread/69179793

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I'm with dogsoldier!

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actually it does want to be "american" lol as in "someone please buy the rights to a remake from me" LOL

And the ending was pure "Omnipresent american modesty" LOL come on Dutch girls are easier than that , surely.

the AIDS thing , come on !! No AIDS in Holland.....

if that movie was Dutch the boyfriend would have been BLACK and the play would have been Othello :D

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Quite funny. as for spelling, which country has bastardised the English language.

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You should read the book to understand the scene that references to 'when Harry met Sally'. It didn't steal the idea.

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