Romance doesn't work: Ciaru00e1n looks old enough to be Lisa's father
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Grabbers
spotlightne — 13 years ago(December 31, 2012 06:00 AM)
This movie would have been a lot better if the writers had not made a romance between Ciarn and Lisa.
A divorced middle aged drunk fancies a young woman in her early 20s. Nope.
As well as looking more like father and daughter, their romance just makes a poor film even worse.
It doesn't work and often distracts from the alien invasion. The movie is a big flop. I initially gave it 4/10. I think I was far too generous. I should have only gave it 2/10. -
erik-29-381626 — 12 years ago(April 23, 2013 04:53 AM)
Never ever! Only couples that are ever attracted to each other, are the ones who are born within 2 months of each other, at the max!
I can believe blood sucking sea monsters that are nothing but tentacles and teeth but a romance between 2 people who aren't the exact same age?! NEVER!!
I gave this movie a 7. It was entertaining, had a few stupid things but was good fun, like it promised. -
Swanson-d90 — 12 years ago(July 16, 2013 04:03 AM)
I thought it was a little weird but overall I don't think it is a terrible idea. Most of these horror comedies have two characters that end up together and I just expected this. It's a stereotype think like in first person horrors otherwise known as found footage movies the main cast all die and when you think it is finally going to be okay the last two characters that survive or last character (who is always a girl) will meet a horrific fate.
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rickwj324 — 12 years ago(October 27, 2013 12:35 PM)
The age difference between these two is the same age difference between my wife and I.
Haven't seen this movie yet, but definitely want to check it out. I really like the main actor in this film (his character in COUPLING was awesome).
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paddy-2 — 12 years ago(October 29, 2013 12:11 PM)
You might be interested to read the last sentence of the first paragraph of this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Coyle
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DoctorStrangelove — 12 years ago(November 25, 2013 10:07 AM)
I think some of you are either quite young, or crazy. He doesn't look that old, for one - and two, she doesn't look that young. She could be anywhere from 22-35 and he's definitely under 50. (Just checked - he is 41.)
I'm used to seeing 40ish women who look almost as good as she does - maybe in your parts of the world women age much more poorly than they do here?
The Doctor is out. Far out. -
redwoodfey — 12 years ago(January 02, 2014 01:27 AM)
What? No way. I thought he was very attractive, and noticed they had great chemistry right away. They were hot together. I think divorced middle aged drunk fancying a young woman in her early 20's is pretty realistic. That she look back, maybe not quite as realistic. Although if the divorced middle aged drunk looks like this guy did, probably.
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regularfellow — 12 years ago(March 05, 2014 06:37 PM)
I've copied and pasted from a post I wrote for the "Earthquake" (1974) board
The same argument was made for "Final Destination 2" (2003); the characters of officer Burke (Michael Landes) and Kimberly Corman (A.J. Cook). She was nineteen or twenty at most, he was in his mid 30s. Considering what they had gone through and what she did for him (for the both of them) at the end; who cares? They're both honorable people, who made sacrifices to save others. The age difference was/is immaterial.