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Originally posted by Diane_Keaton
I'm not putting this movie in my top 10 list or anything.
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Then why are you so offended that you make an uninformed comment about my avatar and fail to exercise your command over the understanding of the word "genre" as it applies to Stripes and About Schmidt?
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Originally posted by Diane_Keaton
But I do not see the movie as trying to be a documentary or real at all. On the contrary, I thought the assorted characters were symbols of the silly values and traditions Americans treasure (the awkward toast at the wedding where the speaker says how great the couple is, the annoying lady in the Winnebago who overanalyzes a stranger as a "sad sad man", that nobody else cares for a description of how your childhood house was set up -- tire store scene -- the pathetic "retirement dinner.")
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Well, that's one way to look at it. Another way to look at it is that someone took what was probably a good book (where the nuances of the main character and the story could be given the attention they deserve) and made a movie out of it, in which the most important thing was capturing the actual feel of this man's life. Capturing the feel of something boring might be impressive to movie-makers and some movie-goers, but it remains categorically unimpressive to me.
That's what I took from it and until I read the book, that'll be my opinion of the movie.
TM
