I meant mobsters as in the muscle men, not the bosses or associates. I don’t recall these two movies having that. But maybe Im wrong?
Awww, how sad 
Makes it more understandable to me, then. A lot of writing draws bits and pieces from real life. That poor little girl
The funny part is that the true story was considered by his editors to be “unbelievable” and so he changed it for the fiction:
[spoiler]In reality his friend was struck by lightning out of the blue:
“Over the next several months, Paterson put the story of David and Lisa on paper. Bridge to Terabithia ultimately became the tale of Jesse Aarons and Leslie Burke living in rural Virginia rather than suburban Takoma Park. Nor was Leslie struck by lightning (editors said no one would believe it).” [/spoiler]
I totally understand the “but…WHY?” reaction to Bridge to Terabithia - I found the movie and the book heartbreaking. I think the point of the story is for us to deal with our own reaction to the tragedy. We often have no control over life’s events, so our only choice is to react to them as best we can. The boy turns tragedy into hope at the end of the story. (This sounds corny, I know, but I can’t think of any other way to say it.) What I’m trying to say is that I can understand feeling anger at the movie (or book), but if that’s all you feel then maybe you aren’t done with it yet, maybe it needs more time to process.
Brian: There’s no pleasing some people.
Ex-Leper: That’s just what Jesus said!
I don’t remember the very end of the book – the sad part left such a mark on me, especially because the teacher who was reading it to us burst into tears when she read it to us. I think I was just so struck by the fact that this was something so awful it made a big strong grownup who I respected weep (she didn’t just tear up, she was sobbing and had to stop reading for a few minutes) that I never really fully absorbed the very end, when maybe there was something that would have made me feel better.
I’m in a minority, but Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. When I first saw it as a teen, I was incensed. “He’s getting away with breaking the rules!” I so wanted him to get caught and suspended for a semester or something. And I was mad that all the authority figures were portrayed as complete dolts.
Later, as I got old, I learned to appreciate the humor a little more and didn’t take it so personally. But it really turned me off Matthew Broderick for a long time.
The Bridge To Terabithia is one of my favourite films of all time, and although it made my heart ache painfully in places, I still came away from it with a sense of the wonderful positivity of the human spirit.
Yes! Thank you!
I had similar complaints about Bridges of Madison County and Brokeback Mountain. Adultery makes me angry.
Serendipity gave me the same reaction. Cusack & Beckinsale’s characters each dump a long-term relationship so they can hook-up with each other. Maybe it’s my history but I couldn’t get past the pain they caused their former loves. Just seemed overly selfish. Not angry about though.
America’s Sweethearts was a lot of fun. In general I like John Cusack films.
By about 85 lengths. No, more. 100 furlongs. Maybe more.
As for Mel Gibson, I strongly suspect that he would have played Christ in that Passion movie had he been a little younger. However, I ought not comment on the fillum since I have not seen it. I suspect further that he does indeed indulge himself in private in the manner described above - but maybe more of us would too, if we had that father of his as our father.
Movies that make you angry because you wasted your time and money? * August Rush* springs to mind, the latest in a sad list of mistaken trips to the cinema.
And of course the fact that he’d have to play a filthy Jew. :eek:
I think *Bridge to Terebithia * was a horrendously sad book, though I didn’t see the movie yet. I cried when reading it as a kid (and my brother made fun of me, that’s what I remember most about that experience). There is some redemption at the end, when Jess becomes closer to his little sister (who had been previously scorned by him), and his art teacher becomes involved in his life.
Here are some movies that made me angry because I didn’t think there WAS any uplifting, redemptive bit at the end. Just totally negative, horrible, tragic. I’m a fan of a well-done tragedy, ala Shakespeare, but these just left me feeling terrible, and then angry. The fact that they are well-made and acted only makes it worse, because you really care about the characters and then, they get completely fucked over:
The Pledge, with Jack Nicholson. Talk about a protagonist trying to do the right thing getting royally fucked over by random happenstance.
House of Sand and Fog: psychos ruin the life of an immigrant family.
Dancer in the Dark: I will never see another von Trier film again.
But . . . but . . . Jesus wasn’t a REAL Jew!!! :rolleyes: :eek: :rolleyes: :eek:
It is one of those sweetly precious oddities I treasure, that some Christians can’t accept Jesus’ birth family.
Sometimes I feel a bit sad for Gibson. He was wonderful in* Gallipoli*, but when you stop to think of it, he was nailed to a cross in that movie, too. (And that movie made me angry, everything about Gallipoli makes me angry.)
Boy, were you a square. Didn’t he just take one day off?
Well…
He does basically use his girlfriend’s little girl as human bait to try and draw out the serial killer. If you believe the ends justify the means, all good, but I’d also say it’s an example of a guy perhaps going too far.
Actually, I remember that he took something like 9 absent days but changed it via the computer to two.
Still, I totally wanted to be Ferris when I was younger. (Well…date him, anyway.)
I despised that movie, too, but not for your reasons. Afterall, I was no stranger to breaking the rules and skipping class every once in awhile.
My problem was simply that I hated that smarmy, manipulative bastard. He was a user and a cheater who thought nothing of lying to his family and friends to get his way and who ultimately suffered no repercussions for his selfishness. Weirdly, I empathized most with his sister, who should have sold him up the river when she had a chance instead of covering for him. I actually felt betrayed by that.
This movie pisses me off to no end. People treated it like its this powerful commentary on modern day racism, when its just a bunch of cartoon characters without a trace of believability. Heavy-handed doesn’t even begin to describe it. I’m getting angry just typing this.
re: The Pledge
His motivation was to save the child from the serial killer, and he thought the only way he could do it was by catching the guy. Otherwise, he couldn’t proect the child. The fact that it didn’t work because the killer died before he could be caught in the trap is what made him look like a crackpot who endangered the girl for no reason. And the consequence was that he died alone, a broken alcoholic, reviled and misunderstood. Arguably he went too far, but holy shit! That was a fucking HARSH ending.