WTF?!?


This is, without doubt, the most pointless movie I have ever seen. I was quite enjoying it for the first three-quarters, and then that ending turned it into a complete waste of time. What kind of conflict resolution is that? Does he get even? Apparently not. Does anyone reap the bitter harvest? Apparently not. Does anyone find epiphany or consolation? Apparently not. No sir, twelve months later and it's as if nothing ever happened. His unfaithfulness leaves no lasting marks on his marriage. Her backstabbing and manipulation leads her all the way to, what?, a regional marketing manager, married to the guy she abhorred earlier in the movie. It almost seems as if the writer just got bored of the story, or couldn't come up with an interesting conclusion, and so he just decided to render everyone contentedly mediocre. "Once upon a time, they all lived happily ever after." Pathetic.....

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Pathetic? You think this was a "happily ever after" ending? Maybe even if the characters were in fact happy at the end, it was more content because they had to make the best of the crappy messes they put themselves in. Plus the ending is quite ambiguous, as to (SPOILER) whether Pete was going to try and start up an affair with Susan again. That's not a feel good ending. Susan wasn't happy either; rather she settled with the guy she hated because in the end all she wanted was a kid.

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What? Actually, Susan is now head of marketing at the ACS national office in Los Angeles, CA. So it DID pay off for her...and she had a baby too! So they all live in LA now - notice the new home near the beach and CA plates on the new VOLVO. Obviously, Pete took a new supermarket marketing job via the "Advantage One" headhunter that called him a year ago...a six-figure income.

So in the end, Susan got the things she wanted with regard to an ACS career and baby. And Pete did not lose his wife and prudently decided not to enter a low-paying job in the music industry. So financially and with regard to his marriage, all is in its place.

It's just a practical "real-world" ending. No fairytale here.

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If you have worked in an office of any large corporation you will recognize all the characters in this movie. This movie doesn't have a Hollywood ending, it has a real life ending where people just move on and they become someone that you used to know. In real life there are no happy endings, in the office its dog eat dog where someone has to be sacrificed every month to keep the Head Office glass tower gods happy. The only thing you can be certain of in an office is change, those that cant handle change disappear. Gen Y are taking the back stabbing bitterness to a new level. I got out but I fear for the future.

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oh, don't sugarcoat it; tell it like it really is. 

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It felt like an extended episode of some melodrama. The minute the guy from Gilmore girls showed up that just cemented it for me.

Maybe they should make a series out of this. They could do a lot more with it

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