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Years Later I Can Still Recall the Hatred This Film Inspired...

posted 13 years ago by OriginalBigWhite
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... So offensive, enraging was this film, so many 'douche-chills' and so cringe-worthy, glurge glorifying and even 'creepy' was this film that even this many years later I still get a little 'puke' feeling if I recall it. Just hearing the name or remind of it.

In fact, about 3 years after I saw this movie I was invited to visit Ireland and though I had never been there I felt so much revolting memories of 'Once' I just declined. Rightly or wrongly I supposed I would meet some pretentious self-important cry-babies busking in the streets and I wondered if I could even control myself.. from vomiting in their guitar case or punching them in the guitar (as if an involuntary strike done from self-defense instincts).

I guess you have to give the film-maker credit here - that is how cringe-worthy and vain this film was. That it still evokes a sort of cringing embarrassment effect all these years later.

Anyone else feel that 'revulsion knot' in their stomach at the very memory of this film?

[–] HelveticaFont 13 years ago

You could go to worse places than Dublin.

[–] rck_n_rll 13 years ago

No. I save my hatred for worse things.

[–] surround_sound 13 years ago

tr*ll

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[–] Eye_Hate_You 13 years ago

You give me that revulsion knot in my stomach, I hope I never come into contact with someone as negative as you in person.

i don't suffer from insanity i enjoy every last minute of it

[–] OriginalBigWhite 13 years ago

You give me that revulsion knot in my stomach, I hope I never come into contact with someone as negative as you in person.

'Eye Hate You' (the clever screen name you created for yourself), my post shows you I am a positive person. I am opposed to negative people and avoid negativity. Like waling crying self-important guitar players who sing 'MMmmeeeeeeeeee! mmmeeee!' songs and create depression and 'douche chills' in the innocent people walking within earshot.

[–] leocdctalk_7 13 years ago

You are a sad, sad person if you can't see all the beauty of this film. Everything about it feels real, and maybe life is not perfect, but it shows that life is indeed a beautiful thing.

[–] doodle_bug00 13 years ago

Agreed. The beauty of this film lies within the honesty and simplicity.

"Trying to pull myself away. I'm caught in a pattern and I can't escape."

[–] Tamooshka72 13 years ago

Wow, dude, maybe you should finally write that Great Novel you are so nakedly dying to write, hmmm?

[–] gmagill 13 years ago

"I was invited to visit Ireland"...this makes me smile...pretentious moi?

[–] johnhubbard 13 years ago

Firstly, Dublin is my hometown and Ireland is my home. Please dont talk about it that way. You dont deserve to visit Dublin, you'd probably end up getting a good slap with your self-important attitude and delusions of grandeur.

Secondly, just because you dont like or connect with the film, doesn't mean that others cant enjoy it and people are stupid for connecting with it. I for one feel very emotinally connected with it and think it is simple and loving story.

D

[–] robi1138-1 13 years ago

I have a very strong negative reaction to this film as well. It has nothing to do, btw, with the directing, acting, or music (which was all very good). This is the first film in a long time that genuinely made me angry (for some odd reason that I'm still trying to figure out). It's not that the characters were whiny or anything like that (or that I didn't sympathize with them) but rather that they were both presented with a wonderful opportunity when they met each other and started to develop a relationship and then just as casually threw it all away to be with their last crappy relationship's other half. I just couldn't relate to it at all once they went their separate ways for no compelling reason.

[–] Schadenfunny 13 years ago

I get where you're coming from and I haven't seen the movie in a while, so this is in part a genuine question:

Do we have evidence to suggest that their last relationships were crappy, as opposed to just...had ended semi-recently, which leaves people in pain? Again, I don't recall the details super-well, and I could see HER relationship having been crappy given that she had a kid and seems to have been left high and dry. But was his crappy or did it just end crappily?

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