Don't go see A History of Violence

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Originally posted by: Anubis
i saw it and i thought it was good up untill it ended

WTF is all i have to say at the end

Man, you just didn't pay attention to the movie. I think everyone who thought "meh" or were clueless watching the movie are too spoiled (or programmed, for a better word) by mindless movies that over-explain or simply beat the viewer over the head with plot points. It?s not your fault, it?s too many idiot-level movies out there that have adult themes but have dumb down the intelligence to a fourth grade level.

This movie made you think. It made you pay attention to details and nuances that were not just handed out or overly dramatized. If you didn?t, then I can understand why you felt like WTF.

It was a really good movie, I believe, because it showed real gravity. And by that I mean that people's actions were realistic and had repercussions. Plus the dialogue was more realistic than the crime dramas I've seen lately. These people spoke like you or I would in the same situation. William Hurt's dialogue was spot on for someone who lives a live like he did. He had some great lines, yeah?

This movie is as good or better than "One False Move." You may want to rent that one if you haven't seen it.







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SORTA PLOT SPOILERS

1) The facial expressions to denote the duality of Tom Stall/Joey Cusack. He's the same person but he is not. One is the violent man of the past and the good guy, non-violent man of the present. Two different personalities. You don't use makeup, or don't use CGI efects, to show one side or the other. We see him as "oh gosh shucks" kinda guy in the first half of the movie. When we get to the end of the confrontation in the front yard with Ed Harris and his cronies, cannot you not see the difference of him/ You see the character now as Joey and how he frightens his own son. Pretty damn menacing. And then there is the realization that he is still Joey and now he is busted his family. He can no longer pretend that he never was Joey.

2) After that little sex scene (the first one), the post-coital dialogue is important. We find out here, as she tells him, how he can tell that she truly loves him. So... what happens at the end of the movie?

3) Before he leaves, in the bedroom, you see the bruises on her back that came from doing it on the stairs. That is real life. FYI, I remember thinking about how cold and hard marble really is when I watched the Thomas Crown Affair (the remake). Pardon the pun, but you have to be harder than marble if you want to get it on, doing something like that (voice of experience here). I appreciated real life touches in this movie.

4) "How could you fvck that up?"
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I saw it with a friend I liked it.

It was good, but it was definately not the standard type action movie.

It was good, but I still liked Serenity better.

meatloaf....mmmmm