I was enjoying the film until the female 'love interest' said it right after he told her he was ''just saving the world''. Made me cringe. Do people say things like that, out loud, to themselves in a public place?
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I will presume my comment was removed due to the mild swear word I used, and re-phrase my answer to you. If someone else's OPINION on a movie bothers you so much then you really need to look at yourself in the mirror and ask yourself ''Why am I such a vacuous individual?''.
Now, if THIS comment is removed, yet you are at liberty to call others 'idiot' and 'dumb' in your posts, I shall be very interested as to why.
You just got owned. Don't mess with the bull, you'll get the horns ;)
shareHow, pray, have I been 'owned'? You threatened to have me removed as a troll and have been unsuccessful in your endeavour. I merely had a post removed containing a mild swear word, yet here I still am, NOT loitering under a bridge. YOU just got owned boyo :)
shareUnsuccessful in reporting me as a 'troll', I take it?
Now was that '=pwned' owned or pawned? I'm confused.
shareNo surprise there considering how dumb you are. Pwned is when you are owned so bad it's embarassing
shareAaah, I understand. I'm not 12 you see, nor do I speak/write like a 12 year old. I use English, and am patently NOT dumb,(unlike you). For instance I wouldn't incorrectly spell 'embarrassing'.
shareI think reporting someone on IMDB is a little like running to mum to tell on somebody.
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Yeah, I like how Ricky Ricardo is not only a little girl, but he thinks he's "owning" or "pwning" them when he reports them. Nothing to be proud of little girl. I'm sorry your life is so meaningless :)
shareSpamming the moderators and preventing them from removing really harmful content.. What can you do, meh. :-/
shareIgnoring the playground argument that seems to have developed since the original post, I agree that it wasn't a particularly good line or plot development. It appears that she and Fentress were work colleagues who had been travelling to work together for some time with, apparently, no real romantic spark between them, yet, only a few seconds after he takes on a different character altogether, she decides 'he's a keeper' and that she has always known this (the point being that he isn't the person she's known up to now). That whole romantic sub-plot just doesn't work for me (although it provides him with a motivation to go back one last time, I suppose).
shareThank you, that was exactly what I meant by my post, you just put it better than me.
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The romantic subplot didn't work for me either. I have no idea why in movies like these they feel the need to put in a romantic subplot. Not every film needs this. And another thing I noticed, any dramatic thriller with Michelle Monaghan seems to have some romantic subplot. And I am not hating on her, it's just what I expect from her whenever I see her name on a film.
Always look for the positive in every situation.
"The romantic subplot didn't work for me either. I have no idea why in movies like these they feel the need to put in a romantic subplot. Not every film needs this."
I call it 'injected romance'. Someone has compared it to forced square dancing in every movie, regardless of genre or story.
NO movie ever needs injected romance. Why is 'romance' even a thing in any movies?
Because it's prorn [sic] for women. Women lap it up, and because women have money, greed dictates every (or at least almost every) movie has to have injected romance.
"The Terminator (1984)" is a movie about time traveling robot and protector human that come from the future, and the robot is supposed to kill a woman that the protector is supposed to protect. Time traveling, robots, 30 cops murdered? Let's inject ROMANCE into it.
"Back to the Future (1985)" is a movie about a teenager that almost erased himself from existence by traveling back in time and interfering with how his parents met, and terrorists murder his old (literally) friend. So, terrorists, time travel, plutonium? Let's inject romance into it! (Well, it's almost a central plot of the movie, but my point is, why is there romance in time travel-movie?)
It got worse from there.. any genre, any plot, any type, any kind of movie, regardless if it's a war, boxing, sports, time-travel, sci-fi, fantasy, space travel or any other kind of movie, INJECT ROMANCE INTO IT!
This is why I can't even watch movies anymore, because it's 99.999% likely there's an injected romance in there, that limits what the movie could OTHERWISE do.
Can you imagine romance-free movies, where ANYTHING can happen? Even The Matrix had to inject romance in the end, NO ONE DARES to make a movie without it.
But wouldn't it be refreshing to see a movie without romance? Even if just for curiosity?
The only movies I know that don't have romance, are.. Misery, Bad Taste, First Blood (all praised and appreciated classics!), and perhaps a couple of others.
It's the hardest quiz on this planet.. 'name at least 5 movies that do not have romance in them'.
Well, I am sure there's a world somewhere, where it's just as impossible to name 5 movies without square dancing in them.. but I'd rather live in THAT world.
Hmm.. 'Commando' actually doesn't really have romance in it, even though there's an unrealistic Mary Sue 'female empowerment' romantic interest in there. Another might be "Predator"... all these movies are universally praised, too, which proves that a movie does NOT _NEED_ romance.
I would say that 'some movies might need romance', if it wasn't such an oversaturated thing to put everywhere. How many movies have been made from those 'romance novels' women read more than men watch actual pjorn [sic]? Twilight, 50 shades, etc. etc. There are _SO_ friggin' many 'purely romantic' movies - why don't they have 'injected action' or 'injected sci-fi' in them or perhaps 'injected explosions'?
I agree. You make a good point, it turned a serious movie into a romcom type setup in that scene. I don't believe you are trolling. And I hate the term "trolling" so declasse.
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'love interest'.. was the problem and casting Michelle Monaghan, at that (plus everything else - maybe the movie needed a slightly different direction and it would've been fine). She already played a Sci-fi role in Eagle Eye *somewhat* similar, arguably.
She never said "he's a keeper."
HE said it, in his bio-assist imagination. (An absurd concept, but one you have to accept in order to watch this movie to the end without breaking things around you.)
She be dead. Her brain was liquified in the explosion. THERE WAS NO GIRL.
Sorry.
Her : You know what ?
Him : What ?
Her : I feel really good.
Him : Why ?
Her : Because I've been waiting for weeks for you to ask me for coffee.
Conductor : Ticket ?
Him (hands over ticket and looks at watch...looks at her again) Hmmmmm ok. Just give me a couple of minutes, ok, and I'll be right back. Gotta go save the world.
(he gets up and leaves her)
Her : (looking thoughtful) I knew he was a keeper.
Yes, "she" says it.
I think @cableaddict's point was, it wasn't the real girl speaking. She died in the original real explosion. It was her IMAGE in Sean's mind during his last eight minutes, recreated and extrapolated by the computer using SEAN's memories, that "spoke."
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I totally agree!!! It made me cringe too and pulled me from an interesting and thought provoking movie into a B movie cliche....But luckily that only lasted for a brief amount of time
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LOL.
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