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Lazlo
10-17-2013, 01:46 AM
IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1937449/reference)

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Ezee E
10-17-2013, 02:59 AM
Oh yeah, this counts for this year. I saw it last year at Telluride.

I'd put it lower then Aftershock, along with a WTF Bahrani?

Lazlo
10-17-2013, 03:15 AM
Oh yeah, this counts for this year. I saw it last year at Telluride.

I'd put it lower then Aftershock, along with a WTF Bahrani?

Yeah, it's fucking mind-boggling how bad this is. So overly melodramatic and message-y, terrible performances from good actors, horrendous dialogue. So bad.

I loved Goodbye, Solo. What happened here?

ledfloyd
10-17-2013, 07:54 PM
Yeah, I liked all of Bahrani's films a great deal and this one doesn't even register.

NickGlass
10-18-2013, 04:02 AM
Ugh, this movie is the worst. Like one of the most horrible early bird special matinee "issue" melodramas you could ever experience.

Raiders
10-18-2013, 05:03 PM
So this is like when the Polish brothers thought that the best follow-up to Twin Falls, Idaho and Northfork (films I didn't like a whole lot, but clearly had some striking and idiosyncratic sensibilities) was to make the most godawful, piece-of-shit feel-good film in The Astronaut Farmer? It still might be my least favorite film from the last ten years.

This looks bad too, though a lot of what I have heard elsewhere makes it sound a little better than you guys are.

NickGlass
10-20-2013, 08:31 PM
It's Bahrani's attempt to package an issue into a soapy family drama (one he would previously present with a more sensitive sensibility), yet he can't handle the exaggerated and exposition-ridden rhythms of a more Hollywood-accessible format.

The Heather Graham character (every line of her drunken, slutty caricature could've easily been "I've been stuck in this no good town my whole life") is almost hilariously egregious.