What do you think of a movie 'Me Without You'?
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Summary: A messy, busy, charming little English film about girls muddling through `Me Without You' is a nice little movie (or should I say film?) that's a lot of fun if you'll let it be. Its depiction of a dependent relationship between two young Englishwomen from the Seventies till now is messy and busy. That's fine. If life wasn't messy and busy in the Seventies and Eighties I don't know what it was. Clothes and décor and music are thrown at us to evoke the successive periods in a way that ranges from charming to grating. The focus isn't on that; it's just a way of showing the passage of time, the saga of lives moving on. The early sequences jump a little too fast. When you go from the little girls to the young women you may think they're wholly different people. You may think the metamorphoses of the young women are too rapid. But quite early you start to care about both women, and about Marina's sweet and good looking but tragically unavailable brother Nat. This is a women's picture in the good sense that it knows what makes men attractive to women and why that both matters very much and isn't quite enough. It seems to take Nat and Holly about twenty-five years to get together for keeps. The relationship between Marina (Anna Friel) and Holly (Michelle Williams) makes disfunctionality and exploitation between people seem okay, and that's fine too. Mostly we don't question our intimate relationships. The assumption is that the relationship is symbiotic. Pretty early on it becomes clear that the insecure but fast Marina exploits and abuses Holly, while the slightly mousy but smart Holly sticks around because she's too nice and too needy not to. It takes a few decades for this to end, for Holly to realize that Marina needs her more than she needs Marina.\n\nI think what makes this a good film (I will say film) is that it's informed by the English spirit of muddling through, of not expecting too much, but there's an underlying moral sense. There's some of the same kind of wry honesty that comes at the end of Schlesinger's `Sunday Bloody Sunday.' `Me Without You' doesn't try to save the world or make Teaching Points about people. It takes them as they are. You can see this in the womanizing American prof character played excellently by Kyle McLaughlan. He's a rotter, but bloody hell! He can't help it. He's sleazier than the amiable scoundrel played by Hugh Grant in `About a Boy,' but he has some of that appeal. Marina isn't a bitch. If a person as nice and as smart as Holly loves her, how can we hate her? No one is a caricature. No one is whiney or shrill. Muddling through, or making do: I thought also of the mood of the once-Number One video in England, `Withnail and I': it's always rainy and things are always running out.\n\nThere are a lot of scenes and little reversals of fortune and through them all Friel and Williams remain excellent, Friel as Marina changing costumes like some mod master of disguise, while the soft, slightly plain, but actually quite lovely Williams as Holly carries the film. Finally it's all about Holly. It's Holly who has the endurance and who gets the man of her dreams at the end, rewarded for her intelligence and moral superiority like a Jane Austen heroine. Williams does her English accent to perfection and quietly underplays her role. The highly saturated color of the film makes her skin look ravishing: she becomes not just an English girl but an understated English beauty who doesn't need Marina's trendy, tarted up costumes and face to be splendid looking.\n\nWhat makes the film worthwhile and interesting is how well the two characters are written. A long time after seeing it I was still thinking about the relationship.
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I loved that movie! After I saw it I could not get the songs out of my head!! I think that movie is SO great! Not only are the songs great but the dancing and actors were awesome, too!                              \nI LOVE THAT MOVIE!!!
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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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Great. \nHe portrayed the part well. He did his best to detach himself from passion or emotion and yet, he fell in love with the woman who betrayed him in the end.\n\nI loved the whole movie.
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Decent acting, not a great movie, but a good enough film to pass the time.\nIt'll keep you guessing til the last second. And the camera work is great all movie long, so I would say YES, definetly go watch it.\n\nMake sure you get some good goodies to watch the movie, you won't regret it.\n\nNot the best movie, but a good enough movie to see maybe a Saturday night.
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I believe it will be a good movie, besides with the world cup knocking at the door  we all are eager to see everything about football.\nI have heard  that the movie has a good production a some good actors, them we have to wait until  may 12\n\nI THINK WILL WORTH IT¡¡¡
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Haven't seen it yet...but it looks interesting.\n\nIMDB's users seemed to enjoy it greatly, rating it a 10, 426 times.\n\nhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067072/ratings
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I LOVE that movie.  It was so heartwarming and cheesy, but it worked.  I think my favorite part for comedy purposes would have to be when the little boy goes after his woman in the airport.  For just pure acting chops and cry-your-eyes-out purposes, the scene where Emma Thompson's character is in her bedroom after she learns of her husband's affair.
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no i haven't seen it but i want to see it ever since it came out but never got around to it u have to tell me if it's good or not , \n\nit looks like a really good movie even if it is pg, i like pg movies so talk to ya later!
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Let me first say that the subject matter did not bother me AT ALL. \n\nBut I was a little disappointed. I felt like the love story part (which was quite crucial to the story) wasnt developed enough. It didnt seem to me that the two were "in love." I felt that Heath Ledger's character wasnt really IN LOVE with his lover. I thought that the passion and physical desire was definitely there, but I just didnt see the evidence of LOVE on his part. That was disappointing to me. \n\nBut other than that, I thought they did a good job with it. I thought that the acting was phenomenal!
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i think its a pretty good film. its different. \n\nSPOILER:\nshe ends up being the one in 6 years. that is sooo cute.\n\nfirst time i watched it i couldnt help but laugh at how gimpy Ashton looks at the start but later on...oh my god he is gorgeous.\ni love the picture she takes of them. yeah i have never seen a movie with this kind of storyline before so thats great and i think the actors chosen were perfect for the parts. i say everyone should see this movie at least once and if they dont like it then hey they dont have to watch it ever again do they. lol.
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It was a good movie.    The movie was done well.  There was more too it than just another war movie.  It mixed in romance, drama, and action all into one movie. \n  I an not one who watches love stories especially if it is suppose to be about one of the things that took us into WWII.  But I do agree with you.
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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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Sounds like a sleeper to me ...\n\n\nHappy Birthday To Me\n(http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/happy_birthday_to_me/about.php)\n\nSYNOPSIS\n  \nAfter losing her memory in a freak accident, Anderson returns to her school and an exclusive club. Days before her birthday the club members are gruesomely murdered.\n\nMOVIE MISTAKES\n\nMistake #1\n\nAfter the 'game' of flying over the drawbridge in cars, Ginny runs away into the forest with just her scarf. In the forest she has her scarf and handbag.\n\nMistake #2\n\nWhen the car falls from the bridge, into the water, three times we see it fall in backwards from different angles. In the last shot it falls in upright.\n\nMistake #3\n\nWhen the investigator pulls up to the house to inform the Doc and Ginny about the discovery of Ann's empty car, as he gets out the car and the camera shot is from the back of the car, you can see a crew-members face reflected in the small rear-view mirror.\n\nMistake #4\n\nWhen Ginny arrives at the inn, as she sits down, she holds her brown handbag in her hand, but in the next shot as she sits, the handbag is on her shoulder.\n\nMistake #5\n\nWhen the last car flies over the drawbridge, its flies right into the ground and the front gets smashed, one headlight breaks and the front left tire flies off. When Ginny runs out of the car after they stop, the tire is back, the headlight is fixed and the front of the car seems totally intact.
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This is movie is great, especially because for once it is Christmas for grown up and not some little kid movie.\n\nI like the movie because it got so much to offer its viewer starting from the brilliant directing and lighting of Terry Zwigoff. Even though Billy Bob was not the first choice to act as Willie he have done one hell of a job (I think even better than the first two choice). The Kid will blow you away with his acting an innocent look. Tony Cox is the good and Lauren Graham looks really hot here.\n\nThe story is great and flawless and full of characteristic and emotion even though there are some scenes that might be too much - like taking a leak on himself.\n\nAfter all the movie is great with a really good ending. Recommended you the grown up who is tired of the kid Santa movie.
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Well, a lot of movies come to mind ... \n\n50 first dates .. Everytime i see it is like the first time, i laugh and cry and totally envy her because despite her condition she found someone who loved her as relentlessly as he did!! it's a beautiful story, and the movie was done brilliantly.\n\nYou've Got Mail ... its a classic!! or thats what i think anyway! Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks, something about those two .. the story is nice, and it just stuck with me!  the whole love-hate relationship, and the friendship that grew from it ..  \n\nBeyond Borders .. Angelina Jolie and Clive Owen! Tragic Story! and i loved it still. Its a different kind of Love story .. one that doesn't end happily ever after, but its more beautiful because of that!\n\nThen there's Moulin Rouge, Don Juan de Marco, Notting Hill, and Bridget Jones Diary 1+2 "because he loved her just as she is" and that's what truly matters!!   and Fools Rush In  is great too and has some great lines! and i could go on and on ..
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I loved the book better than I liked the movie. I cried both times I read it!\n\nBut yes, I think Meryl Streep did a good job in this role. And, Clint, of course he did too. I wonder if there is going to be a sequel of this movie, I would love to see it.\n\nI think the reason I loved this movie is because it related to me at that time, I was in love with a man in a long-distance relationship. But he was married! I want to watch this movie again and see if it still makes me cry. Probably not.\n\nShe made the right decision by staying home with her family. Those children needed their mom and she had a "past" now. Those things you treasure in your memory and that is what makes life interesting, those little secrets...