I should have learned my lesson, or rather, Eden's lesson. A number of years ago when we went to see The Talented Mr. Ripley, Eden, being in love with Jude Law, was disturbed by the content found therein and decided that one should not see a movie just because of an actor.
Now, obviously, a film's cast is central to the success of a film, but the actors cannot carry it. The trailer for Derailed struck me as unremarkable, there's nothing in the story that appeals to me. Had other people been in it, I probably wouldn't have wanted to see it. But because of Clive and Vincent, I thought, certainly, it'll be enjoyable. Sadly, no. Indeed the narrative was insipid and, lamentably, my boys weren't remarkable. Clive's American accent left something to be desired. Not really what I needed for my first movie theatre experience in two months.
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i remember that day so well. i still haven't watched that movie again. i wonder if I could handle it now.
I saw that movie, too, this weekend. I thought Clive looked really good in it. Very hard guy. I kind of liked it, I thought there were some good twists in it.
I felt like it was a bad romance novel in the sense that if the people would just open their mouths and say something, you know communicate then there wouldn't be any problems.
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