that 80s music, that was it for me, i just turned it off. Plus the cinematography was bugging me, so I just figured *be
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Quanfa — 12 years ago(July 20, 2013 01:17 PM)
Considering the movie was made in 1995, we weren't that far removed from the 80's. watching it today, yeah, any saxophone is bad saxophone, but overlook it. Hoosiers was ruined by bad music, Crossing Guard was not. I cringed when Jack cried. He just can't pull it off. Sean Penn should've done 30 takes every time Jack had to cry. "Nope, do it again, still not buying it."
Jack is one-dimensional, but like Jeff Goldblum and William Shatner, he knows that dimension very well. His understated emotion in Terms of Endearment was much better. Also he was too old for the role, as was Angelica Huston. They are not parents of 7 and 8 year old kids. They are grandparents to teenagers. As Good As it Gets had the same problem miscasting with Jack. Not as bad as Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn, but still bad. Oh, and the very end. I like the conclusion, but awkwardly holding hands and crying? Again, it wasn't done well. The rest of it was fine and the way they shifted focus on Booth, I liked that. Much like Dead Man Walking it presented two sides of the emotion, not just one and it wasn't poorly done. My favorite was when David Morse talked about the actual event, although it might've been more powerful with some emotion, but maybe 5 years of prison messed him up a bit. Anyway, I enjoyed it. Not as good as Rabbit Hole, but a different perspective. -
bootblack987 — 12 years ago(October 28, 2013 05:36 PM)
Wow, you really missed out. I thought the opening (and closing) song, "Missing" by Bruce Springsteen is one of the best songs EVER. And the movie was pretty wonderful too. Hope you'll reconsider your decision not to watch this one!
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doubl3 — 10 years ago(July 29, 2015 05:48 PM)
I thought about turning it off as soon as I saw Sean Penn's name. But I hated to stop watching it when I had planned to see it. I ended up liking it, though, partly because I considered it a comedy when it would present his typical liberal propoganda. Feel bad for the criminals and anyone who doesn't is crazy.
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cryconscry — 9 years ago(May 06, 2016 03:48 AM)
Considering the content, 2 minutes is a pretty short amount of time. While it wasn't a great film in the end (mostly due to direction and editing issues IMO) it could have easily been and you would have missed out for your odd intolerance. Your life.