Anonymous wrote:Totally agree with Love, Actually. And will add Eat, Pray, Love. I wanted to throttle that stupid woman.
My most conflicted movie: Into the Wild. Amazing acting, scenery, filming, music - an incredible piece of art. But I truly have a problem movies that take people making dumb or uneducated decisions and turning them into tragic heros. Same issue with Perfect Storm - gorgeous movie, but at the end of the day it was a series of bad decisions based on people ignoring the available information because they thought they were above it all. The lesson there should be to NOT follow in their footsteps - but the movies have the effect of hero-izing the bad decision makers. The "tragedy" of Into the Wild could have been prevented with just a teensy bit of planning ahead. But I still bought the soundtrack, the music was beautiful. So, I'm conflicted on that one - it was either one of the best movies I've ever seen or one of the worst.
I wanted to throttle her too. I'm Italian and DH is Indian and we spend a lot of time in both countries. That stupid book and movie incorporated every bad stereotype of those countries and cultures. Truly awful.