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Originally Posted by Mutt
LOL Squealer and I are a lot alike. BUT fiction movies and books don't have to be constrained by logic and realism, they are an art form, most movies have plot holes and 'that wouldn't happen in real life' moments.
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I get all that. But among all things, there has to suspension of disbelief. Obviously, I don't watch X-Men and think its all real and possible. Within the context of the movie, there is nothing that jolts you awake with a "that made no fucking sense at all" or "that character would never do that in a million years" (within the context of the film/story) moment. You'd be a bit disappointed if in the final scene of the last X-Men movie, the final showdown, they all just inexplicably piled into the Knight Rider car with Hasselhoff to run away and then the credits started rolling.
This movie starts doing that at about 2/3 of the way through and then does it with increasing frequency to the end... an end which btw, is the least satisfying ending of any movie I can recall. As others mentioned, you are waiting for closure and for it all to tie together with Afflecks character getting his moment of justice or waiting for something really clever to happen and it just inexplicably fades to black.
Imagine watching Friday the 13th and 2/3rd's of the way through, Jason, after murdering 10 people with an axe and with everyone knowing who he is and what he's done, just shows up at home. Then he offers explanations which make no sense for his whereabouts, activities and so on. Its clear he should be arrested and detained and questioned, but he isn't. The police and FBI question him as a group for all of 90 seconds, look at him like he's obviously lying about everything... but just shrug their shoulders and walk away, announcing "case closed".. but whatever, its a story and a movie... obviously this is setting up something far more interesting, you think. Then it just inexplicably cuts to Jason sitting down to dinner with his entire family and they're all laughing and drinking wine and playing scrabble or something while his ex girlfriend announces she's pregnant with Jasons baby and in spite of him being an ax murderer, she's going to try to make it work... then the credits start rolling with you sitting there thinking "huh?!".
Obviously, no story is perfectly told. Obviously stories are stories. Stories can however be well told. Stories CAN be very very very poorly told and that's all I am saying.
This story is very poorly told.
This is ONLY a good movie if your estrogen levels are higher than your testosterone levels and you are devoid of normal sense of reason.... or are an abused woman, or your husband cheats/cheated on you. In which case, your favorable response has zero to do with art of good film making and irrelevant.