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Good Movie. Really enjoyed it.


OK, it's not The Sixth Sense but...who came back for you?

For some, the whole thing will be too predictable. I never saw it coming. And it ties really well together. The pay-off is excellent.

Absolutely. We all get a second chance to love.

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Have to agree. This movie was awesome. the people who keep posting negative things about the movie do not seem to get it. Too bad for them.

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the people who keep posting negative things about the movie do not seem to get it.
I'm one of those people. I knew the end from the start, found it a mish-mash of gendres (from spooky to to soupy romance and then back to the unsurprise ending), didn't think much of the acting (although the haphazard writing and storyline might have had much to do with that) and was just generally unimpressed with the disaster.

Maybe it's just me, but the studio did decide to not release the flick in theaters except for a couple token U.S. shows and a few international venues (total international box office less than $6 mil.).

But perhaps the studio that made the movie and I missed something....please explain what we did.

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I really enjoyed this movie. I really don't get the hate for it. And to be honest, who really guessed the ending with Anne's character being one of the dead passengers on the plane? There wasn't any hint to that at all.

"I am the ultimate badass, you do not wanna `*beep*` wit' me!" Hudson in Aliens.

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Sorry, but I have to tell you . . . I just picked up the movie half-way through a TV broadcast. After about 20 minutes of watching, when the guy sees his dog and says "I didn't make it through the crash", I guessed they were both dead.

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So you only watched the last 20 minutes of the movie? That explains your disappointment in it.

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I loved this movie. It didn't break any new ground... but I thought it executed familiar themes very nicely.

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i did like this movie too...

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Such a brilliant movie !!

The part where the truth is being revealed to Anna and she sees her Aunt and teacher, and the music at the background, really touched me.



Darkness lies an inch ahead

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I enjoyed the movie myself as well,, you don't know if the passengers exist, were alive, or are dead.. very creepy and mysterious,, thumbs up
are you going to bark all day little doggie,, or are you going to bite

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I enjoyed it as well.

Some folks complain that it was a genre-switching movie.

I don't understand that complaint. Many mysteries have twists and turns.

I myself have no problem handling those kinds of transitions in a movie, so long as they tie together -- make some kind of sense eventually -- which they did in this film.

Some posters are complaining that it could have/should have been a more action-packed type of thriller/mystery. To them, I would say pick a different film, then. That was not the intention of this movie. The mystery was much more subtle than that and the film had themes of grief, loss, regret, and coming to terms. It wasn't supposed to be a fast-paced gritty type of mystery/thriller.

The predictability? Some of it I guessed before the end and some of it I didn't.

Even if I *had* guessed the entire film at the very beginning, that would not necessarily ruin it for me, as I as a viewer am more interested in the exposition and how the themes play out. I don't watch movies to get some kind of 'Where's Waldo' thrill out of them.

I have lost some very important people in my life, a few of them tragically taken too soon, and I gotta tell you that I have watched this movie 3 times now and the ending STILL gets to me.






~~ If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story ~ Orson Welles

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For embracing all the new age spiritualism crap in this movie.
Don't say I didn't warn you.

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Enjoyed the performances and thought it was an interesting film.

A bit sad, a story about a love that could have been and some lives that were cut far too short. That said it was worth seeing. A nice reminder to us to appreciate each day we are given.

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I really enjoyed this movie too.

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Cool.

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