pointless movie

It's only pointless if you miss the point, which you apparently did.

The fact that you especially dislike Away We Go because you enjoyed Revolutionary Road says nothing about Away We Go but quite a bit about your film evaluation skills. (Why would liking Kate and Leo impact Away We Go?)

I just watched this, was discussing it with my husband and said the exact same thing, this movie was pointless. It was a mixture of funny, kind of charming scenes but ultimately they didn't jive too well together and didn't further the story. I'm left wondering what was the point of the movie, the characters didn't seem to overcome anything or change at all?

The ending just seemed to be tacked on and was way too slow, sorry why would the audience care about her house that much, the movie in no way built to that moment to make it significant, other than throwing in the orange tree story at the end to try to force it to be significant but it didn't work.

If I had to describe this movie I would say it's a slice of life movie. And those don't usually have a big rambunctious plot. It's just an inside look into some one else's life. It's cute. It's sweet. It doesn't have a point, because there is none, except to see a couple preparing for their first child and exploring different types of parenthood.

"What's Pre-Revolutionary France doing on a spaceship? Get a little perspective!"

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I believe a big point in this movie is parenthood. Burt and Veronica are about to have a baby though are not married (or is even planning to). They travel around to find the perfect place to raise a family. Each place they go reveals a different parenting situation. The couple in Arizona who talk about their kids in front of them, or ignores them. The family who are wonderful loving parents, though can't have kids themselves, so they adopt. The weird hippie people who doesn't believe in the "normal" parenting techniques. Burt's brother's wife left him, and he's worried about how he could play the role of the mom and dad for his daughter. And Burt's parents who would rather live in Germany then to be there for their son when the baby is due. All shows different parenting situations and wether it works or it doesn't. So perhaps it's a journey for Burt and Veronica to find their ideal parenting situation. Just a thought.

To me the point of a movie is what me as the viewer gets out of it. I can't tell you what you took from the movie nor what you should take from the movie. What I can tell you is what i got from the movie.

In the beginning we see 2 unsure people who classify themselves as *beep* ups(cardboard window scene). So these 2 set off on a trip to discover a place where they can call home. Along their way they discover other parents and parenting styles. Montreal is a good example of something from the outside that looks perfect and "grown up" but at the core life actually is still going on with the inner turmoil of not being able to give birth. The trampoline scene to me is kind of a realization that maybe they have it together a bit more than they originally set out believing. Their odes to each other were cute and sincere and they cover the situations of the previous parenting styles they had witnessed in their vows. The tub time with the sister plus comments from other parties about her parents you could tell that it was still a very raw and emotional subject and the fact that they ended at her childhood home kind of ties the whole movie together for me. In my opinion it is more than just "Home is where the heart is" It is also a self discovery through the lives of others.

Kind of sort of reminds me of a Common Rider Song True Rulers. Overall I loved the movie.

Aren't all movies essentially pointless? I mean you don't need any of them technically.

The movie is not pointless. It's just that you are not much of a romantic. And I don't mean romantic in the amorous sense, but romantic in the sense of taking something as it is and turning it into something personal with your own imagination. That's neither a good thing, nor a bad thing, but it does mean that you would not enjoy movies like this, you would't like art which doesn't have an immediately obvious meaning, and you'd get bored with sunrises if there's no one else watching it with you.