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i almost love that movie but it contains too many "clichés" !

posted 8 years ago by usa-mike
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hi,

sorry for my english expression, this language is not my natural born one.

i almost love the movie.
Almost because :

as a fan of Julianne Moore, i do love that role in the movie, great performance but "too expeditive".

as a normal fan of " Ellen Page", i am not satisfy enought of her performance.

as a fan of Steve Carell, i do like his performance, very funny. (first degree and second one)

as a romance movie, it is a total failure.

as a drama movie, it is almost failure because appearance of Steve Carell characters brings comedy in the movie where there should have not be.
Steve Carell's first appearence was really a big joke that ruins the serious heart of the movie.

as a movie about "fight against the cancer", i am not really satisfy.

as a huge fan of Michael Shannon, i love a lot his little role but i remain hungry of him.

as a "community" homosexual gay or lesbian movie, it is plenty of failures, too many clichés :
- a couple of lesbian with one in a "boy look", short hair, boy hobbies : total cliché! shame for lesbian woman representation.
- a gay man in the police : total cliché too ! of course that "gay" one is handsome, like a top model... cliché, cliché again...
- the end titles song sing by a lesbian singer (at least a bisexual) is cliché...
- i am not sure, but i don't want to googling it, but Ellen Page is lesbian (or bi) isn't she ? well, why only a lesbian actress must play a lesbian character ? : cliché!

last cliché :
the message of the movie :only a "minority" person can represent or defend a question of minority to gain equality ----> this is the most important failure of the movie.

so, i almost love the movie, but i just like it, it was entertaining enough. i gave it a note 7.

have a good day, or at least a good movie moment !

ps : i am french, what is the real meaning of "freeholder" ? is it "tuteur" or "adminstrateur de pension", i don't see what in french culture , a freeholder is.

[–] djungelsoda 8 years ago

You do realize that the story is based on a true story, and that the characters were people who actually existed..? Cliché or not, it's what actually happened...

[–] dxben99 (63) 7 years ago

While I can agree that the movie jumped a bit in tone from love story to homosexual acceptance drama to cancer drama to court drama, I think you're way off regarding the cliches.

This is based on a true story and in real life the two look way more masculine than the characters in the movie. So not a cliche, but real life!

Regarding the gay cop: So, if we have gay characters in a movie, they need to be ugly? I don't get your problem with this character. Nothing cliched about him.

Regarding Ellen Page casting: Yea well, maybe you could deem this a PR stunt, maybe it was a role she wanted to do for a longer time but only felt comfortable with after having come out, I seriously don't know. But she did a good job. It shouldn't matter whether the actress is gay in real life, but evenso, this was only one role. I doubt she'll only be playing lesbian parts from now on.

Regarding lesbian singer: I doubt many people watching the movie realize that, and even if, so what? Does this really lessen the quality of the movie? I mean the movie is literally over at that point. ;)

"last cliché :
the message of the movie :only a "minority" person can represent or defend a question of minority to gain equality ----> this is the most important failure of the movie."
- Sorry, but what exactly do you mean by that?