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NRaleighLiberal

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2. we (my wife and I) simply found it a rambling, unimpressive - sometimes boring - movie

Reply to Bonobo (Original post)

Sun Feb 22, 2015, 11:23 PM

Feb 2015

with little real character development. Ho hum....tonight we watched Wings of The Dove - so amazing to see a movie with true depth of emotions and character development. Seems to be completely missing in the low attention span "twitter" age, sadly.

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Boyhood. [View all] Bonobo Feb 2015 OP

Haven't seen it yet, although I like Linklater's other work. Warren DeMontague Feb 2015 #1

It was impressive indeed. Bonobo Feb 2015 #3

Probably the stuff of his I liked the most was the stuff that had no pretense of depth. Warren DeMontague Feb 2015 #4

we (my wife and I) simply found it a rambling, unimpressive - sometimes boring - movie NRaleighLiberal Feb 2015 #2

Yes, I wouldn't disagree other than admitting Bonobo Feb 2015 #5

One of my favorite explorations of the father/son topic was the movie "Big Fish" n/t lumberjack_jeff Feb 2015 #6

I love that movie. RiffRandell Feb 2015 #7

It resonated with me because my dad was a bigger than life character. lumberjack_jeff Feb 2015 #9

I haven't seen it yet so don't want to give an opinion RiffRandell Feb 2015 #8