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this is a movie about a woman who
has emotional problems played by Kate Winslet I'll living with her son
and I they gets kidnapped
or held hostage by a mistake on replay by shot
Josh Brolin awesome James Brown I Josh Brolin
who ends up the in a a interesting relationship
it becomes kinda becoming a rage story that takes place over the course of
Labor Day weekend in the eighties
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eighteen years for murder and be grateful if you let me stay tonight
called someone were to come by would need to look like a kidnapped you
what happened is known to more historians
in a papular you know we have you would recast
this movie with like you know Dean Cain and Teri polo and put on lifetime
you could call you know my captor my lover I don't be the same movie you
like I mean it is you know it is it's based on a novel by Joyce Maynard who
was you know JD Salinger's
much younger girlfriend was not all weird stuck in his house in vermont
situation so
her insights about women who paula with captors like mine a little questionable
this whole movie is this bed is very squeaky as far as
the power dynamics and and the the rule the rule over Elizabeth was worse with
me investor them here
you know what I'm what's unfortunate this movie is that the execution in here
almost saves a almost makes it work
I I think the source material really holds everything back here but there's
you know that foreseen for instance when Josh Brolin
take is in the store talking to them is terrifying
I found that to be really effective and consequently there's a scene at the end
of the movie
where it's you know towards the climax of the film in
and you start wondering whether or not think you know people
you know whether or not land will %uh weather on the plane what he told us
they wanted
going it's very effective in very tense
and there's there's pockets at the seams in the movie
that really work and then then there's the scene with the pockets and then
there's a
you know then there's these really small team really misguided scenes yet where
they like
Josh Brolin becomes the dad the kid needs in the lumber that the mom needs
and
it he it it's like is the magical Negro buddies the magical convict you know
yeah it's it's frustrating because there's there are
you know six or seven really solid scenes in here and so when the movie
drops the ball
because the good things are so good the bad ones like you realize I gloria oh
god what the hell's going on here good
well yeah because its record by Jason Reitman whose you know tell the guy did
not in the air and and you know and and young adult
I just don't know that he we has an affinity for this material he's trying
to do something different than I admire that but
are Robert Abel who does the the true detective recaps with me here and look
up like
had a great line everybody goes he is shooting for Douglas urged any land on
Nicholas Sparks
absolutely and I saw that that can only that it is very small t this movie and
not in a way that even sort of forgivable e oh well it's corny it's
whatever
now you in a movie from this director with you know top flight actor like
Brolin and wind what you're expecting
smarter and better and and more insightful about the human condition
there are times where you think you know the way the story goes down and that
this guy takes this
this family hostage and then start a relationship
they the kinda sell that in certain parts of it and that's
a risky storytelling sure and I think that
be able to make that work and take those risks that make that
story and make that relationship honest and believable
yet to take a lot arrest to sell that and yet the problem is is
summer the other story elements and the way they go about making that
relationship work
it's all just too convenient yet all too easy unit you could tell that story but
you have to tell it in the writer
provocative and pricing way you know a long line to tie me up tie me down
like that's a very interesting one that manages to tell a similar story and make
it much more provocative mmm
and this one I feel like you know I get theirs elements that are are provocative
but when it gets schmaltzy when the movie you know when they dropped the
ball in the fall back on the weakness in the source material
yeah I think that's really what happens here I think that
there are scenes no hole seems that I would have taken out of this movie and
done some major rewrites now
and I think you can end up with something that's really great and then
you have this
really painful epilogue are the characters are older and what happened
to them or you're just gonna
so yeah there's a reason is we got like the tiniest 'em
a you know and most hopeful award releases in December and is now being
dumped in the latter days in January despite the talent involved it is not
anybody's best work here yeah and it's frustrating because you know again and
beginning a move to get through this could be really interesting and then
starts to fall apart and I just found myself getting more and more
disappointing I mean it's beautifully shot at the you know a lot of the
elements are there like you said rights doesn't
they don't mail the landing so numbers I
4.7 I was also thinking 4.0 this is we are right boring as we zag ring on shift
so apologies for that
are a row ever to the four point seven is that a 49 percent on the tomato in it
out
I home so yeah this is probably not a movie that
between this and that awkward moment your best bet this weekend watch the
Super all
I go sleep frozen again anything you know
anyway thanks have a good time was the exam