This movie is balls-out retarded. Don't see it.
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This movie is balls-out retarded. Don't see it.
Really? It's been getting crazy hype.
Any reason why you're not recommending it? I wanted to check it out.
All I know is it they set their studios up right next door to where I work(at Laconte rink in Medford) and every single day trying to adjust to that job (it was my first week) while they were filming was an interesting nightmare.
We totally finangled like 25,000 dollars out of them too. It was like that episode of The Simpsons where they were making the Radioactive man Movie and the town played em for chumps.
Yeah, I guess I should elaborate on my hate.Quote:
Originally Posted by aren
While avoiding spoilers as best as I can…the movie started out very, very solid, with good acting and a very gritty, real atmosphere. Good stuff. Then a plot twist happens that basically ruins the entire movie. Any normal person would look at the situation presented, see a simple obvious solution, go for it, and the movie would have ended. But these people in the movie instead take a completely different route that involves this cloak-and-dagger conspiracy which gets several people killed and breaks the law. What makes it especially stupid is that everything could have been done 100% legally with far, far less effort and harm and much greater speed. I know this sounds confusing, but you can liken the plot twist to a guy wanting cup of coffee on the way to work and instead of just driving down to 7-11 and grabbing a cup, decides to fly down to Columbia, pick his own beans, grind them, brew it, and fly back. Same result, but it makes no sense. It's just a basic flaw with the script- I can’t understand how anyone involved didn't look at it and say, wtf? This shit is retarded.
Anyway, that's why the movie sucks.
You're going to have to elaborate Dole. I saw the movie and liked it. I can't even tell what you're talking about.
I don't see how such a shitty actor can possibly be a good director.
I don't even like this kind of movie but I enjoyed GBG. I could see someone who actually likes cop dramas thinking it's great. I did not think the twists Dole was talking about were contrived, the explanations in the movie were totally believable. All the players had valid motives and reasoning, and I am always a stickler for believability in movies.
The theater I was in was packed, and there were a lot of people who didn't get up when the credits started to roll. A lady right next to my group was crying. I am always annoyed when people fall into the debate you know the director of the movie was trying to start, but I couldn't help arguing about the ending. This movie shouldn't be spoiled, so I'll just say I'm with Casey Affleck. I can't see how anyone could take the other side, but my gf thought the exact opposite of me.
I recommend this movie to anyone who thinks it looks interesting.
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Originally Posted by stormy
The kid's mother was a shitty parent- a drug addict, left the kid alone without babysitters, stole major cash from a drug dealer which (of course) would put her and everyone she knew in danger, and once even left her in a car on a summer day with the windows up, resulting in the kid being "roasted alive." Like I said, shitty parent. Now, her brother or brother-in-law, whatever he was, he's concerned, right? So he goes to Ed Harris, who in turn goes to Morgan Freeman. Morgan Freeman, who's a POLICE CHIEF IN CHARGE OF A TASK FORCE THAT PROTECTS CHILDREN.
Now, in cases of blatant child endangerment, what would a normal person do? They'd report it to child protective services, of course. The mother would probably be investigated and the child removed from the home and placed into the care of a safe foster family. But Morgan Freeman isn't a "normal" person. He's a POLICE CHIEF IN CHARGE OF A TASK FORCE THAT PROTECTS CHILDREN. One call from him, just ONE CALL, and that whole process I described at the beginning of this paragraph would be sped up and intensified 1000x.
But does everyone involved take that course of action? Nope! Instead, they hatch this clandestine, cloak-and-dagger plot to stage a kidnapping of the kid, dupe the mother and her family, the police, and the detectives into thinking that she'd been killed, all of which results in several people getting murdered, others almost getting killed (including the brother-in-law), a media frenzy, and Morgan Freeman being forced to retire at half-pension because it looked like he bungled the investigation. And all so Moragn could hide out in a cabin in the woods as the girl's new adoptive father. And they never even bother going into how Morgan was planning on explaining to people where his new little white daughter came from to the locals.
If he wanted to take care of the kid, he could have had her removed from the home and offered to be her foster father and eventually adopt her. Shit, he'd look like a fucking saint for wanting to do that.
And that bitch girlfriend leaving Casey Affleck for blowing the whistle on Morgan Freeman? Just as fucking stupid. I mean, Morgan BROKE THE LAW. HE KIDNAPPED A CHILD AND GOT PEOPLE KILLED. What if he descided he liked it and wanted to do it again? Tell on him, then tell on the white-trash mother and have the kid taken away. Shit, with all the media coverage of the kidnapping, I don't understand how the fact that she was a horrible mother didn't surface anyway.
Just a stupid, stupid, stupid movie. Anyone that thinks that the plot twists were believable is...well, I don't want to insult Stormy, but I just can't understand how an intelligent, reasonable person can watch this movie and not think it's the dumbest piece of shit ever made.
But at least Stormy and I agree on Casey Affleck's girl dumping him for doing the right thing being stupid.
Since when has something being contrived stopped you from liking a movie?
Cough, Micheal Bay, Cough