OK. You didn't like the movie. That is your opinion and it is valid. You don't have to like it.
However, as you stated in another thread as well, you claim you felt manipulated and that bothered you. Well, that is what is supposed to happen in a movie. I suppose you only like movies where everything is revealed to you at the beginning and you dont have to actually pay attention to get anything out of it. Movie makers ALL try and manipulate you in some way or another. Every one of them.
Plus, although it has many similarities to Life Is Beautiful, it was in no way a knockoff. The only way to believe that is you didn't actually pay attention to the movie, or went into it with that idea because it looked that way on the surface.
I also hate to tell you, but those cards are the ones he plays in ALL of his movies, not just Life Is Beautiful. That is his niche. That is why people pay to see his movies. No one wants to see Schwartzenegger play Hamlet either, so he doesn't do it.
Sure there are plot holes....the movie is a fantasy after all. Just because it had a real life backdrop does not mean it wasn't a fantastical love story. There were plenty of plot holes in Life is Beautiful as well. Show me movie with no plot holes at all and we'll have a first on our hands. It's always easy to find plot holes when yur looking for them. It's especially easy when the movie is not trying to cover them up.
Lastly, yes, we do care when he finally reveals the truth. Why? Because that is the point of the movie. Without that moment, the movie was a lot of the things you claim it was. That moment tied everything up and made all of his ridiculous actions make sense. If you didn't care, then you missed the point of the movie.
Maybe you didn't like the point of the movie, and that's fine. But it would be nice not to knock it for unsubstantiated reasons.
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steve2005
15 years ago
oh, and you forgot to mention coincidences or coinky dinks are the backbone of storytelling, especially in movies.
there's a reason why people easily run into their ex-husbands on the streets of new york city, because it's easier than writing a scene where they go out looking for the person, calling around trying to find them, ask to meet at starbucks on 51st street where there's a million starbucks, so which one do they meet at. they continually play phone tag until they finally meet up and say hi.
would you like to see that in a movie or this:
man walks down the street runs into his ex-wife and says, hi.
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