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Posted by Sam Graham (Member # 2889) on 01-24-2009, 04:19 PM:

CINEMA: 13th Avenue Warren, Wichita, KS
AUDITORIUM: 11
PRESENTATION: 35mm/Mystery Meat Digital/THX
PRESENTATION PROBLEMS: Slightly shaky, out of focus picture
RATING: Three stars (out of four)

WARNING: "Plenty of people are onto the emptiness, but it takes real guts to see the Spoilers."

GUY IN BATHROOM AFTER SHOW sees a friend and says hello.

"What movie did you see?"

"We saw that dog hotel movie."

"Oh. We saw that Revolutionary War..uh Road...chick flick."

Really? Chick flick?

THE PLOT: Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet plan a transatlantic voyage. What could POSSIBLY go wrong? Wackiness ensues.

This is a story about a woman trying to pull her husband, and herself, out of a rut. They're so involved in their own self-pity, their children may as well not have even had credited names. You could ultimately almost call it the anti-chick flick. I saw a lot of parallels to my own parents in this movie, actually.

Mendes did a good job of delivering a slow, yet desperate tone. Well done.

Posted by Steve Guttag (Member # 268) on 01-24-2009, 06:48 PM:

I saw this one at the AFI/Silver in Silver Spring, MD. Projection and Sound were tops, natch.

I think Sam called it pretty much right but for me... at best 2 out of 5 stars...as a movie, it did nothing for me though it was well made.

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 01-24-2009, 11:21 PM:

Every time I walk past this auditorium all I see are Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet arguing. Yeah. Gotta see that. [Roll Eyes]

The director desperately tries to reunite nearly the entire Titanic cast in a pathetic attempt at bringing in an audience. Also, what fool casts his own wife? A die hard nepotist, that's who! Would have been better if Bill Paxton was in it.