In Reply to: Couldn't agree less posted by Road Warrior on February 2, 2006 at 11:09:35:
that a guy with good looks and a good forehand could marry a mogul's daugher--- and the mogul would be damned grateful, to boot! And so would his usually snobbish wife!
Let me tell you... that ain't the way the world works.
You didn't find the split personality of the film a weakness?
Do you think murderers act so... impulsively, especially when it's planned?
I mean, we aren't given any reasons to expect he'd become murderous, are we?
A filmmaker owes it to his audience to create reality--- and it can be different from "real" reality--- which obeys its own laws. The worst sin is to violate these laws.
Woody was inconsistent in a major way. This film deservedly is sinking fast. It may be better than most of his latest fare but that's not good enough.
Woody doesn't know shit about the English and it shows.
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Follow Ups
- Of course, a woman would like to believe - tinear 16:39:52 02/02/06 (10)
- Tin, since the cats out of the hat - Road Warrior 19:59:55 02/02/06 (9)
- Tennis bums may latch onto a discarded old wife - tinear 06:26:39 02/03/06 (1)
- Ol Laura and George - Road Warrior 08:00:25 02/03/06 (0)
- FWIW here's what I didn't like. - sjb 22:12:04 02/02/06 (6)
- No offense, but you and tinear apparently just missed a lot of what was going on in the film. - Audiophilander 10:58:06 02/03/06 (4)
- Yea, what he said * - Road Warrior 12:18:16 02/03/06 (3)
- I guess it boils down to one of two things - sjb 12:52:04 02/03/06 (2)
- I'm not trying to beat this dead horse into submission, but... - Audiophilander 13:36:30 02/03/06 (0)
- Daughter was, in a word, Plain - Road Warrior 13:30:04 02/03/06 (0)
- Exactly, poorly written as well. How many scenes or tropes were - tinear 06:29:38 02/03/06 (0)