Anonymous
Post 05/20/2023 09:28     Subject: A Man Called Otto
Anonymous wrote:The book was amazing. The movie just ok t Hanks wouldn't have been my first choice of casting.


He ruins most movies for me and yet for decades he was in everything.
Anonymous
Post 05/20/2023 09:12     Subject: A Man Called Otto
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It's the kind of movie that is made for dumb audiences. Everything is obvious and over the top and it's full of tropes.


This is why I had to stop watching it. It was tired and overdone with all the bitter, miserly, grumpy man tropes.


It wasn’t bad but I felt the same. Not one of TH’s best movies.
Anonymous
Post 05/20/2023 08:57     Subject: A Man Called Otto
Anonymous wrote:It's the kind of movie that is made for dumb audiences. Everything is obvious and over the top and it's full of tropes.


This is why I had to stop watching it. It was tired and overdone with all the bitter, miserly, grumpy man tropes.
Anonymous
Post 05/20/2023 08:29     Subject: A Man Called Otto
Anonymous wrote:It's the kind of movie that is made for dumb audiences. Everything is obvious and over the top and it's full of tropes.


You the dumbest
Anonymous
Post 05/20/2023 07:40     Subject: Re:A Man Called Otto
Why did they change the name from Ove to Otto?


Because Ove is an unfamiliar name to American audiences. It's pronounced with a U sound not an O sound (I only know because I listened to the audio book) so the producers probably wanted something more common.
Anonymous
Post 05/20/2023 07:36     Subject: Re:A Man Called Otto
Didn't like the book. Ove was a horse's ass to everyone his entire life. Miserly, crotchety, and an embarrassment to his wife. So much so that there is no explanation for a living breathing woman to put up with his nonsense, so she's already dead when the book starts.

Then he decides to be a halfway decent human to a small number of people for a short amount of time before he himself dies -- yet 300+ people come to the funeral and mourn him? No way.
Anonymous
Post 05/20/2023 07:24     Subject: Re:A Man Called Otto
Why did they change the name from Ove to Otto?
Anonymous
Post 05/20/2023 06:40     Subject: A Man Called Otto
Loved it!
Anonymous
Post 05/19/2023 21:10     Subject: Re:A Man Called Otto
I liked it a lot but the book was better. Fredrik Backman's Beartown series is great. He is probably my favorite contemporary European author.
Anonymous
Post 05/19/2023 20:50     Subject: A Man Called Otto
I really enjoyed it! Had me in tears a couple of times.

Makes me think of some sweet older neighbors, and how much those relationships me to me…and hopefully to them.
Anonymous
Post 05/15/2023 21:53     Subject: A Man Called Otto
I liked the book. Watched the movie today, and I won't lie, I cried a couple times.
Anonymous
Post 05/15/2023 21:33     Subject: A Man Called Otto
Hm, I loved it. So did my DH.
Anonymous
Post 05/15/2023 20:23     Subject: A Man Called Otto
I was surprised but I really liked it.
Anonymous
Post 05/15/2023 20:17     Subject: A Man Called Otto
I liked the book better, it had more backstory and was lighter. I thought it worked better being in Sweden than in the USA. But it was ok.
Anonymous
Post 05/15/2023 20:04     Subject: Re:A Man Called Otto
What dump? They lived in a rowhome.