ThePriestess is offline ThePriestess Post #1  April 20,2008, 11:36pm
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What did you think of this film?

My youngest sister saw it and recommended it to me. I found myself lacking in empathy towards Dan ...and didn't see himin the wrong where his middle daughter was concerned. Maybe it just wasn't developed well enough for me.
 
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jamisco is offline jamisco Post #2  April 21,2008, 12:07am
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I thought it was an okay movie... just a little too predictable.
 
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I thought it was cute but that could be because Steve Carell is such a cutie.
 
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I liked the movie a lot and laughed rather hard at many things in it. But then I have never once walked out on a movie before or been very critical of many movies so I'm not a very good critic.
 
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I thought it was o.k. It suffered from a common movie flaw: man and woman spend 34 minutes together and are somehow bonded for life.

I didn't really feel a lot of connection for any of the characters, to be honest.

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I felt like I wasa rock skipping a long on the plot. It was just all on the surface. I didnt care that he was a single dad with three daughters. I didnt think that there was any build up on the past. And I am sorry but whos' family gets together to do excersises? I mean really.....

I get bored and annoyed with a lot of movies these days though.
 
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I thought that the movie wasokay. I didn't see the basis for a relationship between Dan and the woman that he fell for. I liked Dan's character though. Steve Carrell was hilarious and believable as a man who kind of lost himself for a while after his wife died. I thought the traffic tickets were a funny little side note and he finally had to let the olderdaughter drive them home. I couldn't relate to the problems with the middle girl; I agreed with Dan's character on that one.

Overall, I liked the movie. Steve Carrell is justtoo funny. Put it on my tab!
 
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I loved the movie! What I thought it was saying was that life can be unpredictable, things happen when you least expect it, go with the flow. I thought the point about his 2nd oldest daughter being in love and his saying you can't be in love after 3 days....made a point later in showing him how that was wrong. Even as an adult he fell quickly for a woman he met in the bookstore and for him I think it was love at first sight. I think it also showed how life is complicated, answers are easy, don't be prideful, act like a child sometimes (innocent) and take what life throws at you. In the end you are responsible for the direction your life takes (destiny).So, Priestess, watch it and tell us what you think.
 
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landstar59,105680 wrote :
I think it also showed how life is complicated, answers are easy, don't be prideful, act like a child sometimes (innocent) and take what life throws at you. In the end you are responsible for the direction your life takes (destiny).
I meant to say in life all the answers are not easy....[img]library/editor/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-smile.gif[/img]
 
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I liked the movie in general, was rolling at the conflicts with his daughters, 'cause teen girls are really like that, but I was irked at the notion that he could really love a woman he'd only known for a few minutes (or over the course of the weekend). He could be infatuated, yes (just like his daughter was), but not love in a complete sense. So the idea of him even considering moving in on his brother's relationship was horrible for me - and I don't buy that everything could work out so peachy-keen between him and his brother. Even if the brother's attachment to wotzername was relatively shallow, Dan's actions would still have been felt as a betrayal, and the hurt would last.



Same problem I had with The Family Stone - all those instant Twu Wuvs that conquer all. grr... life ain't like that.
 
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