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Before Sunrise (1995)
Contrived chemistry
Perhaps I missed something. Too trite conversation and contrived chemistry. I did not for one moment believe these two we're falling in love, just acting like they were. Perhaps it was just the actors falling in love with their own performances.
I rented this movie with then hopes that I'd be enthralled as so many others claimed to be, and the eventually move forward through the trilogy. Maybe I expect too much, but this seemed a shallow little movie. For perspective, I thought both Shrek and Moonstruck were wonderful love stories but thought the Titanic was hopelessly unappealing. I would be interested to know the general demographic for whom it held such broad appeal.
Jericho (2006)
Nothing special
In a TV land of Breaking Bad, the Sopranos and Mad Men, Jericho is nothing special at all. It is a GREAT premise, however, the whole production lacks realism. Just a few examples from the first three shows: they manage to pick up a faint TV signal from somewhere in Asia, but no one thinks of grabbing a shortwave radio from the nearest hardware store. Their hand held radios have unbelievable range, but somehow a few nukes have apparently wiped out all A.M. radio broadcasting capabilities across the entire United States. Trains en route with goods and planes that made emergency landings have been mysteriously abandoned even though they are no where near cities that have been bombed...
Reviewers who have given this a good rating should revisit their tolerance for plot holes.
Couple that with characters that are little too cliché to be believable, not to mention the fact they really don't seem that terribly upset by it all, and you have a mediocre show that could have been so much better.
2 Days in Paris (2007)
Emotional abuse is not entertainment
I found the depiction of this relationship appalling. I may show it to my teenage sons so they recognize what emotional abuse looks and sounds like. Nothing about the female lead character is endearing. She excludes her partner, makes him look and feel ridiculous, lies to him and is frankly very mentally ill. Her issues were not little insecurities that he should learn to live with and love. They were catastrophic and destructive. I watched it to the end to see if she might redeem herself, and she sort of did, gaining some insight into her own behaviour. However, if she truly loved this man, she should have undergone a couple years of intensive therapy before even thinking of beginning a relationship. Movies like this trivialize the seriousness of this type of behaviour. I did not like the happy ending; that kind of irrational behaviour does not just go away and leave the one who bears the brunt of it to live happily ever after.