In Reply to: I liked it posted by Analog Scott on November 23, 2006 at 10:15:30:
An, you didn't feel, as I said I did, that the characters VERY unbelievably got themselves into many of the messes and then compounded them? That's the hallmark of poor writing: a realistic dramatic dilemma cannot be invented so the writer creates a ridiculous one and then what follows similarly must be ridiculous.
The boys repeatedly fire at vehicles full of human beings and are shocked they hit a person? Sorry, but kids aren't that dumb.
Pitt explodes at the police when a fistfull of cash would have bought his wife transportation?
The guys on the bus show NO human feeling for a mortally wounded woman? Is any of this how people really behave?
The girl "beaves" a bunch of guys at a bar... she's in "shock" that deaf kids aren't always well-received? Believable? Her activities with the detective: so horribly incredible I could barely watch: I was embarrassed for the writer and director.
The entire Mexican stuff also was ludicrous: a woman who for sixteen years is a governess has NO resources to help out in a crisis? She gets across the border with 2 blond kids? Huh?
Her son decides to run a US Custom's roadblock?
She decides to start walking in the night, while in the desert?
At some point, one doesn't care about such dumb folks, or rather the dumb folks invented by dumber "artists."
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Follow Ups
- SPOILER inside: - tinear 16:54:06 11/23/06 (4)
- Re: SPOILER inside: - Analog Scott 19:08:50 11/23/06 (3)
- Re: SPOILER inside: - jamesgarvin 08:48:42 11/24/06 (0)
- One man's gibberish is another's babel. Like I said, ridiculous film. nt - tinear 05:36:28 11/24/06 (1)
- Well gosh, if you said it, it must be so. - Analog Scott 07:22:58 11/24/06 (1)