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I just found it so difficult to like them (spoiler alert)

posted 10 years ago by Tessicat
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I love Drake's films, and his style of directing, I really do. But Breathe In failed to grab me emotionally due to the fact that I just did not like Pearce and Jones'characters. His wife and daughter were so lovely and welcoming to a stranger in their home, and from the offset Sophie was a very self involved character, who didn't seem to care what her actions did to affect others. She went off to Manhattan with the guy who her roommate clearly had a thing for, which a good friend would just not do. Things like that just really ruined her character for me, and I thought both mum and daughter would be better off without them, shame they didn't do a runner!

I'm usually an emotional sap at films so I was expecting this to move me, but unfortunately it didn't.

[–] minhal92 10 years ago

They made it obvious that Sophia's character was flawed (in my opinion). We heard her say many times that she just wanted to be free, above all else. And from the beginning of the movie she had wanted to go to New York and hence does so when she gets the chance.

[–] timlin-4 10 years ago

The wife practically spit in her husband's face every time she saw him without exception, and she is "nice"? The daughter acts like she is 3. Goes to show that while chicks are so "perceptive" about relationships, men are just there for them like rocks.

[–] GiovanaSamara 10 years ago

Gosh, IMHO, his wife was a b-otch! She belittled him every chance she got, called his real passion (playing with the simphony) a 'hobby', made fun of his early dreams (being in a band), refused to let him try and rekindle those dreams by moving back into the city...

She's the kind of person that subtly undermines the person next to her, so that her own mediocrity doesn't stand out so much.

I'm a woman, but if I were that guy, I would have left her, for sure! What a drag she was! Thinking he could ever be content with that 'bland' life they were leading, when he wanted (and could do) so much more.

[–] DCI77 10 years ago

It's amusing that the comments here are avoiding the OP's point and just turns out excuses for the other characters. Then again, these types of movies attract certain apologists.

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[–] Niqqeronius_neanderthalis 10 years ago

Interesting, coming from someone that gave avengers a 9. It's quite obvious which movies captivate you and they surely aren't movies of substance.

[–] DCI77 10 years ago

You have no clue what you stepped into.

If you weren't being reactionary you would realize my 9 for Avengers - though being the highest (I believe) out of all the movies I've rated on IMDb (not all the movies I've watched received a rating) - that it wasn't the lone high score (to me, anything 7 and higher is "good"). Some high scores were foreign or indie. Some were not.

Not only that but if you cared to read my profile, which definitely came before my ratings -- in fact, I have had a list of ratings spanning from 2011 till present in my bio -- so you must've seen it (but not read it) also notes that I enjoy watching foreign and indie films besides mainstream movies.

Before you go "Why don't you watch Transformers," (a movie which I thought was quite good, for what it was) try not to resort to stock responses that, ironically, gives no substance to your "rebuttal" and just shows that you are no deeper, insightful or intelligent than the "No blood and explosion? This sucks," group.

I'm way too familiar with your type of mentality - smug because they watch film that "deal with the greyness and the hardships of life", are more "real/reflect life", or are more "intimate."

>>It's quite obvious which movies captivate you and they surely aren't movies of substance.

You crossed someone who is familiar with the works of Bergman, Fellini, PTA, Kurosawa, Allen, Kubrick, Goddard, Jarmusch, Hitchcock, the Coen Brothers etc. It just so happens I also enjoy good mainstream movies. I bet there are movies "of substance" somewhere in said directors filmography.

I even keep a personal check list of selected movies from the Criterion Collection (if it matters).

To all you film snobs and "of substance" people who let movie making (and art in general) think you're "special" or better (in whatever way) than the Average Joe: Go f_ck yourself.

[–] Niqqeronius_neanderthalis 10 years ago

Lol. Avengers 9. After reviewing your ratings, it's pretty clear how meaningless your long winded story is.

[–] DCI77 10 years ago

Lol. Avengers 9.

I also rated Let the Right One In (2008) a 9 and Wings of Desire a 10. Just admit you can't defend your BS towards me.

Unless my ratings gave blockbusters all the high scores and all the foreign & indie ones, the ones that are listed, abysmal scores your post has nothing of substance, ironic as that is. You made horrible judgments and now you pull the "Psshh. You write too much," back peddling response.

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[–] Fuzagi 8 years ago

Can you answer the questions clearly:

This part I agree with wholeheartedly:
It's amusing that the comments here are avoiding the OP's point and just turns out excuses for the other characters. Then again, these types of movies attract certain apologists.

But I also agree with *beep*s comment:
Lol, Avenger's 9.

Can you explain without turning both questions into one jumbled brew?

[–] porn_warren 10 years ago

I hate movies like this it was 2 selfish main characters and a later episode of maury. Didnt even finish it disliked the characters so much. Love the actors though. Just was not my cup of tea. I put it up there with the lives of dentist.

[–] xxx131000 10 years ago

I don't watch a lot of romance movie and I'm not sucker for happy ending, but in this movie I want the two leads to get their happy ending maybe because I can relate to Keith's character, when you get older most of the times life becomes less interesting , you do job that you hate in order to survive so I can understand if Keith wanted to runaway and just be free so he can live the life that he always wanted.

[–] emvan 10 years ago

Actually, one of the points of the movie was that Sophie did care. She kept on volunteering to Keith that she should move out, and he kept on telling her to stay. She asked Lauren if it was OK to go to NYC with Aaron, and was skeptical when she answered yes, asked "are you sure?," and Lauren was emphatic that it was OK.

In general, it was clear that she was taken with Keith immediately, and was incredibly cautious about pursuing anything, to the point of deciding, initially, not to take his class, even though one of her reasons for coming to America was to continue to study piano.

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