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Posted by David Stambaugh (Member # 1102) on 05-12-2002, 05:55 PM:
05/12/2002, Cinemark 17, Springfield OR, 12:35PM, #3, flat, DTS. Attendance about 40. Overall presentation was "good" but they showed the scope "Windtalkers" trailer in flat, which caused some head-turning and "W-T-F??" in the audience. (In a truly wasted & meaningless gesture, I will no longer rate this location any higher than "good" until they turn up the subwoofers so they are actually doing something.)Richard Gere & Diane Lane are a reasonably happily-married couple living in the suburbs of New York City with their young son (Dewey from Malcolm In The Middle). The wife has a chance encounter with a young stud, is attracted to him, and things become hot-n-heavy between them. Husband suspects something, finds out the full story, and things take a rather ugly turn. Husband & wife end up drawn back together again to fix the "problem" they created.
Moody and erotic, kind of slow-moving sometimes. But I liked it enough. You don't really know how things are going to play out until the very last scene. Someone in the audience said out loud "You've got to be kidding!" over the "resolution", which isn't really very clear-cut. I didn't care, worked for me.
Posted by Mitchell Cope (Member # 32) on 05-12-2002, 08:44 PM:
I agree with David about the ending. It worked for me better than "In The Bedroom" which has similar plot points for a totally different situation. I thought it had nice little Hitchcock touches throughout, including the ending. I guess some people need more, but this was enough.
Posted by Adam Wilbert (Member # 1184) on 06-08-2002, 10:39 PM:
I really liked this movie. People I saw it with dismissed it as porn, not really getting past the "i saw boobies" factor (these were grown adults too, not kids) I don't understand their logic. Anyway, I feel as though the ending asks "what would you do?" Some people don't like to think for themselves, and as such, require everything to be spelled out for them. For them, there's Sum of All Fears down the hall.
Posted by Michael Brown (Member # 890) on 06-09-2002, 06:49 AM:
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