painful to watch

Yeah, it's not good. Barbra and Seth are both great, but the writing is terrible. Who would actually hit someone in a bar? And he's been trying to sell his product for five years, but still hasn't realized how bad his presentation and product marketing are? I'm about halfway through - and now they're stereotyping Texans as people who eat tons of food. Ugh.

We'll see how the rest of it goes...

I'm with you. The first 20 minutes was awful and I put the movie on pause. I came back the next day and it got better, but not much. I was expecting some laughs and I never got any. I would never go across country with my mother. I went across country twice with women my own age and nearly dumped both of them on the highway.

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I think it takes a more mature person, and I don't mean age, to understand this movie. It deals with a complex relationship, which i'm sure anyone who has experienced would love this movie, that of a single mother and her only child, her son. I related to the way he was irritated by his mother but he loved her and the conflict between those two feelings. I, now older and wiser, related to her need for his attention, he's all she ever had and she devoted her life to him for many years, all she knows and he's gone.

People are watching this movie expecting pineapple express and are then disappointed, somehow Seth Rogan has been pigeonholed and so people don't expect him to venture outside of that hole. I though 'Funny People' with Adam Sandler was a similar issue. I feel that these people are then unable to open their minds and experience the touching film before them. I didn't laugh hardly at all during this movie, but I smiled a lot, it was very cute and close to home its just a shame it wasn't marketed that way.

I hope more people see this film and enjoy it. I thought the closing shot at the airport depicting all the sons and mothers was a very subtle but poignant shot.

It gets an 8 from me.

Its better to die on your feet than to live on your knees

"Sad" summed it up for me too, but I was also mad; mad that Barbra let the best years of her movie career slip by when she should have been churning them out. Now she's stuck playing "mother" to the current flavor of the month; in this case, the completely mediocre Seth Rogan.

I watched it all the way through and liked it but Seth is so hard to watch, he always looks as though he has a dip of Skoal in his mouth and it constantly looks like a big dollop of spit is going to spillover his bottom lip and spill down his chin.
Also he has a constant 5 o'clock shadow, as if he has whiskers of steel that are impervious to any razor made and that makes it hard to look at him for any length of time. He may be going for the sexy Miami Vice look but he's not the type that can pull that off, he's no Don Johnson.

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