It's bad!
Take my word for it...it is bad. Superficial, stupid, implausible. Yet, I watched it...it is a Lifetime movie...they are a hit or miss. This is one to definitely MISS!!
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MovieChat Forums > Seventeen and Missing (2007) Discussion > It's bad!
I really don't wanna be rude but WHAT?????!!!! In what way is it superficial??? It's realistic and interesting. How could you not love it?? I never knew what was gonna happen next which is them most exciting part. Even though commercials are torturous they were even MORE torturous when I was watching the mvie. I Felt I could be in Lori's situation. The movie is very a hit.
shareFirst of all, how is this realistic even in the slightest? This is a movie about a woman who magically has visions of what's happening to her daughter whenever she touches something. And then she uses this never-explained power to rescue her daughter, whereas in real life she would have to go to the police.
I personally found it appalling that the writers would use a very real and traumatic situation as the springboard for a less-than-half-baked sci-fi hook. The OP is right, this is a terrible movie.
Big Gulps, huh? Alright. Well, see ya later!
I agree with the OP. I don't get why many are saying they liked it, pleasantly surprised, all that. I thought it was very unbelievable and boring. I was tired but stayed up through the end and was like "...that's it?" I mean the last hour is the mom and dad running through abandoned barns climbing through dirt piles. No I'm not one that needs action. Just substance. The part with the creepy dude and her were okay, but those only lasted about 5 seconds then he got hit by a car.
It was just stupid. Like a rip off of the Dead Zone when the mom touched people...but it was just too convenient. Like, inconsistent. Sometimes she'd see the present, sometimes the past, seemingly based on what she wanted to know at the time. Like...where's her daughter being held? Let me touch creepy dude and wow, what do I see, a huge shot of the street name where she is. Come on. It was just hard to relate to b/c it was so silly/implausible.
I know! The whole time I was watching it, I was thinking, "It sure is a good thing the mother has those magical psychic powers, otherwise they would have never found the daughter!"
shareI agree with you and the OP. This being a Lifetime movie, I wasn't really expecting much. Initially it did seem interesting and different. But overall I thought the movie was very contrived, predictable, and at times downright stupid, in my opinion. Like you said, every time the mom touched something, she saw exactly the clue she needed. There was never a time she touched something and saw nothing (which would've been more realistic). The scene of her seeing a vision of the dirt road with the brand-new looking street sign name in super-clear black and white lettering (while the rest of the surroundings were old and dilapidated) was ridiculous. I've never seen street signs anywhere that looked that corny, not even out in the country. It's like the set designers didn't even try to make it realistic. Perhaps a small detail in the whole scope of the film, but it just stuck out like a sore thumb to me. And maybe it was just me, but both parents looked a bit young to have a teenage daughter, unless they conceived her when they were both teenagers themselves. Mom didn't look a day over 30 to me.
Just my 2 cents.
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Well, not taking your word for it (because I didn't know you had a word before I started watching it), I watched it anyway, though not in its entirety... I liked it... people's opinions of movies are subjective... what one finds endlessly boring, another finds incredibly interesting... thank goodness we're not all alike, eh? Variety (and a difference of opinion) is the spice of life.
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