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Why, oh, why, did they have to have a romance?


It meant nothing to the story as they could have just continued as friends trying to survive. Plus, Bullock was a quarter century older than the guy. This was an unnecessary diversion.

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100% agree. It did not feel organic at all, outside of the fact that in a high-stress situation two people might be prone to cling onto each other.

The film would've worked better without it.

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Yes, it totally took me out of the movie, even his first remark that she was "hot."

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I have to agree with that. The terror and trauma that those people would have seems to me like it would preclude obsessing about sex, but there was also the other couple that stole the car.

I also have to think that if they had not gotten romanticly involved someone would be complaining that it was racism or something. Someone's always gotta gin up some annyoing angle on everything that happens in every movie.

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They lived together isolated for 5 years! On what planet would two attractive people who are basically living on a deserted island not hook up?

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UncleRuckis agreed. I don't know why people are making such a big deal about it. They're adults, and they were all each other had, and yeah. They were both attracted to each other. Remain just friends for what? please... Any one here would do the same thing if they were in their shoes.

You gotta make the best of things because you never know how much time you have left in this world.

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What do you mean?
Thanx

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