its labeled a love story but it seems to me a movie on two mens selfish motives - not love. They knew they had feeling for each other before they got married and had kids. Ennis never spent time with his girls and ruined his life for what? I know the character had confused feelings. But make up your mind before having children. I didnt feel for the guys at all. I was upset that they did not think before they acted. They had an oppertunity to get together but instead had kids and a wife they didnt want, and in the process destroy a whole bunch of lives. My question - Do u feel the same?
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I don't think that the point of the story was that it's okay to lie, but the fact that relationships and feelings can be very complicated. And I think that the story makes people think about how important it is to know yourself and be yourself. Also, I think that at the time the movie took place their relationship would have been unacceptible.
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Well....I got a different view point. I feel that it's a movie that deserves multiple viewings.\n\nI will start by saying that this has undeservedly be panned by just about everyone! The fact is it wasn't what anyone was expecting, especially from Guy Ritchie. What everyone was expecting was cockney geezers and good one liners "do ya like dags?" etc, but this is far more mature than his previous works. I would agree that it is confusing but all the facts are there for us we just have to see them and listen harder, this film demands all your attention! Look past the cool and dazzling look of the film, try to listen to the dialogue rather than admire the performances and i think we will all get a more thorough understanding of the whole film.\n\nYes this has its influences from modern classics( fight club, pulp fiction etc ) but it is in the whole original in both direction and pacing with a music score second to none. I feel that if everyone watched this film over and over they would understand it a lot more and maybe appreciate it for the fine piece of modern cinema that it is and i hope also that Ritchie continues in this vain as i far prefer this to his mockney "masterpieces". \n\nThe brief plot outline is.............\n\nJake Green is a hotshot gambler, long on audacity and short on common sense. He's rarely allowed to play in any casino because he is a winner. Jake has taken in so much money over the years, he is the only client of his accountant and older brother Billy. One night, Jake, Billy and their other brother Joe are invited to sit in on a private game, where Jake is expected to lose to Dorothy Macha, a crime boss and local casino owner who can't play for squat, but always wins because people are too scared to beat him. Jake isn't afraid of Macha, and not only beats Dorothy in a quick game of chance, but takes every possible opportunity to insult the man. Jake and his brothers leave the game, and Macha puts out the order for a hit on Jake, who ends up working for and being protected by a pair of brothers, Avi and Zack, who are out to take Macha down.\n\navi and zack create the fictional crimelord mr gold to use in their big con to make macha and lord john destroy eachother without avi and zack having any direct involvement. \n\nthis film is about breaking free from mr gold, its more physcological than physical and thats obvious in the way its made. for once the physical actions in the movie mean so very little, you need to concentrate on whats happening to and IN the characters minds.
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The movie is about a set of twins (both roles played by DeCaprio). When they were born, the King told the Queen that one died and he placed that child in a "protected place" with a caregiver. The King believed this was a way of protecting the throne. \nOnce the King died, his son took the throne and was not liked by the people. He was a bad king (to say the least). Eventually this new king discovered that his brother never died, so he had him imprisoned in an iron mask to conceal his face/identification from the public. He did not want to share the throne. \nDuring his father's reign, there were four main muskateers which protected the royal family.\nThree of these men quit because they no longer believed in the new King's ways of ruling. The only one that remained was Dartangon. He had now become the King's right hand man. The other Muskateers could not understand why he would not defect like them. \nWhat the King did not know was that one of the defective Muskateers knew of his brother's, the other twin's, placement into the mask. This Muskateer comes clean and tells the other two. They form a plan to "break" the young man out of prison and to educate him in the ways of royalty and switch him with his brother during a royal party. (You see, no one else knows there are two children.) All goes well, until Dartangon realizes there is a change in the personality of the King. He catches on and finds there are two children. \nThe catcher is that he, Dartangon, is actually the father of the twins. He was having an affair with the Queen, who is still alive and very much in love with him too. He had been hiding the secret for years. He comes clean to the other Muskateers and they finnaly realize why he would never defect, eventhough he agreed the King was an awful King. \nThe King tries to kill his brother and all four muskateers are trying to protect the good twin. There is a "showdown" and the King accidently stabs Dartangon, his father, and kills him. With his dying breath his tells the twins he is there father. ALL of the Muskateers here this and are sworn to secrecy by the creed and they decide to put the King into the mask and his brother on the throne. The good twin is now King and places the bad twin into a nice seclusion with a deaf, blind mute so the secret will not be out. France is happy again and Dartangon is a hero muskateer.
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See the thing about the movie is that some parts are obviously real and some aren't.  Do you really think then ending with Pamela Anderson happened?  If that were the case he would'nt have made it to the parking lot to chase her.  It's obvious that he didn't really fight the fat guy naked but it's obviously real that his balls were in his face.  Overall it was a good movie.  I've liked Da Ali G show for years so I was expecting a little bit more but for anyone unfamilar I think that they'd like it alot.  At the theaters it was a little too surreal.  I think that was partially due to the film quality.  THe show was definitely more authentic.
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Maybe Ned is gay? Thants why he is so caring. Brokeback mountain kicked @ss this year, why not jump on the bandwagon
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This movie is being advertised as an inspiring love story.  It was not inspiring for their wives in the story or their children or the townspeople or even other gays as they are never tender with each other but violent and rough. It degrades an American icon of masculinity The Cowboy and in several states and cities the owners of movie houses refused to show it. It is a demoralizing and confusing movie.  The fact that there are more critics and people in the film industry that are gay is proven by the so called popularity of this movie.
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I've seen it in a chain letter before. Not sure about a movie. Here's the whole thing I've read:\n\nThe way their tears make you want to change the world so that it doesn't hurt her anymore.....Yet regardless if you love them, hate them, wish they would die or know that you would die without them ... it matters not. Because once in your life, whatever they were to the world they become everything to you. When you look them in the eye, traveling to the depths of their souls and you say a million things without trace of a sound,you know that your own life is inevitable consumed within the rhythmic beatings of her very heart. We love them for a million reasons, No words would do it justice. It is a thing not of the mind but of the heart.
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yes, loved it, it's sexy, it has some interesting ideas about BDSM or just the idea of someone powerful dominating someone with no power.  The stars are great in their roles.  Lots of people will think it's sick because they are not at all interested in the powerful/powerless concept.  I wish i could see ur opinion about it
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well Im satisfied of the ending...\nit made me cry..\nthat what makes it such a great movie!!\nright?
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SORRY BUT PANDERING TO THE HYPE, WRONG WORD PERHAPS!! IN MY HUMBLE OPINION IT WAS A FILM MADE WITH AN EYE ON THE BOX OFFICE. WELL SHOT PRESENTED BUT PURELY HYPOTHETICAL, AND IT STILL LEFT ME WONDERING \n\nTOO MUCH EMPHAISE ON THE WHOLE SCENARIO OF THAT HORRIBLE DAY AND DARE I SAY IT PERHAPS THE FILM COMPANY WAS CASHING IN!!!!
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I actually liked it very much...both of them were trying to live what little life they had left to the fullest...they did things that they normally wouldn't do, just to experience it...it just goes to show that you never know when your time is up...live each day as if it were your last, we only get one shot at life and it shouldn't be wasted being afraid to do the things that we might want to do but are too scared to do...the story just showed that two people found each other by fate, and were able to experience a love that they would never had found hiding behind their tragically shortened lives...watch it again, as sad as it was, these two ill-fated people got a chance to end their time here together, not scared and alone as a lot of people have to do....
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Had a look on the commentry of the film and they just say, 'some people ask, who is he talking about?'  on the part where the little man (tollouse) crys, but do not explain why. Maybe it's just artistic, as it makes you think there is bad things to come in the film, as we have just seen a very colourful energetic development of love, to a loney small man dressed as a clown, but is not colourful at all underneath dispite apperances especially when in company. There is a scene later on in the film where Christian has been thrown out of the Moulin Rouge, and as Christian is helped into bed, tolousse explains that 'things aren't always as they seem' and although others see him as a drunken gnome deep down he believes in art art and love.  \nIn answer to your question I  think it shows him crying because things aren't always as they seem.\nHope this helps!
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Actually, "Cookie Cutter" That definately wasn't the debut of Emilio Estevez, he is best known for playijng "Two-Bit" in the "The Outsiders", anywho, I am personanlly an S.E Hinton fan and I've read every single one of her books and seen all the movies....my opinion is that the movie "That Was Then, This Is Now" sucked huge balls. It had nothing to do with the book and the personalities and appearences weren't even the same as the book. For example, M&M is supposed to have Charcoal Black hair with War Orphan eyes to match, and in the movie, this kid has blonde hair and blue eyes, they even completely skip the part where the first go to the hippie house to look for him after he runs away. I personally loved the book and its my favortie next to "The Outsiders" but the movie doesn't even capture the feel of the book. I knew Copolla should've directred it, at least Rumble Fish was almost <b>identitical</b> to the book.  But, to answer your question, the endings are different, I'll spoil the horrible movie for you. In the book, after Mark and Bryon see eachother in the jailhouse(it's been a few months since I read it last) Bryon just continues living his life, numb to the feeling of care, and in the movie, after their "Like a friend once said to me, that was then, this is now", Bryon takes some guys car and takes it for a spin, and he's all "happy-go-lucky". I personally only liked the movie because Emilio Estevez is a hottie, and because he really captured the character 'Mark'. Don't watch it, plus you can only get it on NetFlix, don't waste your money for a crappy movie.
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I thought it was an OK movie.  It was cute, humorous, quirky in some parts.  It has a deeper meaning though, in my opinion.\nWe're always trying to fast forward through life, without savoring each moment we DO have with our loved ones.  He was lucky, he got a second chance.....because it was a dream.\nWe don't.  So don't waste your lives focusing & worrying about work, etc!!!  There's SO much more!!!
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OMG, finally someone else who has seen this movie!! I rented it and then bought the DVD the next day. I have made all my friends at least watch a few scenes.\n\nI LOVE the mix of humor and darkness in the film. Apparently this is a bit of an Irish thing - based on other Irish films I've watched lately.\n\nCillian is SO brilliant. I just can't gush enough about this movie!!
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The most memorable film that I have seen is A Child Lost Forever. It is about a little boy who is taken away from his mother and father at birth because they are both underage and put in the American adoption scheme. 21 years later the mother goes looking for her son, only to find out that he died when he was 3 years old. The boys adopted mother physical abused him beating him and making him eat his own sick because he was an untidy and lud child unlike her son that she had, who was taught to be tidy. The child died of a ruptured bowl, which kills you after a number of symptoms if not treated. The case was closed as her whle family were police in the same department. They eventually found her guilty after opening the case again. She got life in prison. What hit it home for me and made me cry through it was the fact that it was a true story and that there are people out there back in them days that would take away a child to an underage mother yet nowadays it is becoming more and more common for 11 and 12 year olds to keep there babies. I think that the laws should be changed and that kids as young as that should be put on birth control and taught the risks of having sex at an earlier age. That is the film and that is my view.
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well\nthere was an instance in which a 500 pound male was practically.... although unintentionally..... 69-ing with someone else... and in that scene there is complete male nudity with scarce censorship. That particular scene lasts for ten excruciating minutes. It is a male on male thing too.... not sexual, just... wrestling. Also there is the showing of Borats "Favorite Son's" penis in a picture. And two different men... for lack of a better term.... "jacking off"... \n\nAside from that there are mainly severly obese women in thongs and bras.\n\nI would definitely reccomend advisory with this one.\n\nAside from nudity\nthere is also.. rather alot of racial things.\n\nalot of anti-jews and anti-homosexuality and pro-prostitution\n\nI am 16 and I was shocked that I was let into this movie because it is obviously rated R for a reason. I was with a group of my friends and I hid my face in my sweatshirt for a good portion of it.\n\nexcercise caution with this movie.