If your a male and made it thru this movie
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Mellow-Fellow — 10 years ago(October 24, 2015 06:08 PM)
30 year old man here Just watched this alone, along with "Meet Joe Black" a couple weeks ago alone. And I feel this strange sensation in my groin area as if my manhood is receding and a sudden influx of estrogen throughout my system
These were terrible movies. The impossibilities of such I can accept like "Man from Earth" where he was like 1000 years old, the whole movie takes place in one room basically and its a fantastic movie. This movie had no story arc really, no character development, other than her to "Stop running!" well, we all saw that coming fast. Awful, I like good romance films too which is why I even gave these a shot. Guess I'll have to stick with the good novels, movies are failing lately in that genre, either that or it's just so predictable it either goes one way or the other, love or don't love. Not much you can do with that, mix it up add love triangles Jerry Springer crap, but in the end it's boy meets girl and it works or doesn't. -
chiluvr1228 — 10 years ago(November 04, 2015 09:54 AM)
SPOILER IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE MOVIE YET
I'm a woman and thought this movie was complete drivel. I don't care much for romantic comedies and less so for romantic fantasies. Logic dictates that the odds of Adeline getting put into a state of hypothermia at the same time electricity strikes not just once but twice is ridiculous. That she falls in love with the son of the man she loved in the 1960's out of all the people in California is another implausibility.
It was also rather predictable right down to her finding a gray hair at the end. I wish Hollywood would concentrate on quality of movies rather than quantity. Too many theatres so too many crap movies are being made to fill those theatres. Every once in a while a gem comes along but not as often as they used to.
Plus I didn't think she was a very good actress. And Ellis was a stalker.
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Mellow-Fellow — 10 years ago(November 04, 2015 11:35 PM)
Tons of implausible events. The mathematical likelihood of her getting those 3 things to happen at once with the lightning alone is in the trillions (screw you Brits and your billiard, its a trillion, live with it).
Then While she was in UK no less she meets a guy who happens to be the father of the guy she loves oh so much back in America. That's even more improbable than the first one, maybe. Were getting into the one in a quintillion or sextillion at any point. It's a movie so we are meant to accept outlandish possibilities because movies are "Amazing Stories". But his was too impossible.
At least he can ask his dad how she was in bed 40 years ago, or whatever, if that's like family dinner table talk. It's a giant elephant in the room right? I mean "hey babe Just curious but well Who is bigger? Was I better than my dad? I bet they didn't do that tongue thing back then right? Right???". So many insecure guys and Ellis strikes me as one as a guy, compensating, incessant philanthropy isn't just a cause of being a "good guy". People that dedicated to serving are either very religious or feel they've done very wrong and believe in Karma or something. Or they are acting in movies and don't really exist. Ah-ha. -
Mellow-Fellow — 10 years ago(November 12, 2015 09:31 PM)
Yeah ok, It's just so unlikely it's hard to remain attached to the story, I guess that's how movies are made though, it wouldn't be an awesome tale without extremely unlikely events liking together to form the story.
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gcarras — 9 years ago(January 04, 2017 04:48 PM)
And just to make it equal I am straight guy and enjoy the romantic and surreal drama of this and the surprises. But I';m glad to see a woman that breaks the stereotype.. It allows us straight guys to like it (assuming you're straight)/
(Though, no problem with the characters or cast, I do, and this is in reference to seeing Adeline's loving sister, get a bit freaked out when a sibling (Ellen Burstyn as Flemming) as Adeline's sister stays aging. Maybe she should have been the same age all the time
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The DAY I TURN in my MAN card, chilvr, Original Poster, and everyone, IS the DAY a MAD MAX or a POPEYE live action is remade with Mad Max or Popeye with a AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION!!!!!! THAT kind of film makes ME, especially if dragged..THAT's what makes ME turn in MY man card.
I actually loved the film's laid-back, surreal tale of an ageless woman, but to finsh this, yeah, I admit, it's rather hard for my fellow alpha males to sit through it.
"And that's SHOWBIZkid."-Roxie Hart.
PROFILE PIC:Courtney Thorne-Smith.
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RagLagertha — 10 years ago(March 12, 2016 02:28 PM)
I m a 32 year old lumberjack (well forest worker i think it would be in english) and I watched this and now I m about to watch the little mermaid on the couch under a blanket with hot chocolate.
It looks quite funny, especially with the whip cream in my beard probably, but I ll tell you a little secret;
If your manhood depends on the movies you watch, the women you date, the job you do then you are either a teenager still needing to find his place in this world or quite scared of other peoples judgement. -
gcarras — 9 years ago(January 04, 2017 04:53 PM)
"I m a 32 year old lumberjack (well forest worker i think it would be in english) and I watched this and now I m about to watch the little mermaid on the couch under a blanket with hot chocolate.
It looks quite funny, especially with the whip cream in my beard probably, but I ll tell you a little secret;
If your manhood depends on the movies you watch, the women you date, the job you do then you are either a teenager still needing to find his place in this world or quite scared of other peoples judgement."
And now my defense THIS time in agreement with the above! Thanks for being part of my legion.. You'd on don't have to to be a gay guy or a girl to enjoy this unique story with more than chunks and dollops and lumber logs (inspired by your posting) of story twists.. I have it on Amazon.com, and also saw it in the theaters. AND ADELINE-I mean, Blake Lively, looks downright GORGEOUS, especially the famous movie poster when she looks at her leading man behind the film title.
"And that's SHOWBIZkid."-Roxie Hart.
PROFILE PIC:Courtney Thorne-Smith.
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xanxei — 10 years ago(March 20, 2016 01:27 PM)
From a female who mostly hated this movie: a real man doesn't need YOU to approve of his taste in movies, OP. A real man doesn't give a sh!t what little brats with machismo on the brain think of him. A real man will pass his time however the fnck he likes, and own it. A real man will scoff at the concept of "man card" because he knows that HE defines masculinity, not the other way around.
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dakowill11 — 9 years ago(April 11, 2016 02:50 AM)
UhI made it through this film not once, but three times! Twice with my twin nieces!
And not only that, but I've watched the special features, including "Style Throughout the Ages" and "A Love Story for the Ages"!
Granted the plot wasn't the best and could've been much better. But, the cinematography and score alone more than made up for that in my opinion. Visually it was just exquisite!