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that was not very good. surprisingly it was still much better than i expected. by this i mean i expected cheesy, schmaltzy. corny awfulness throughout the entire picture. i expected it to be cringe-worthy and like one and a half stars bad. it wasn't. instead it was two and a half stars bad. it wasn't as cheesy as i thought, still a little on the schmaltzy side but not enough to really detract from the film. it was actually kind of sweet in a dark, weird and utterly creepy way. what makes this film bad is really the unfocused nature of the screenplay and the handling of the story and the main... read more

as i'm prone to saying, given the choice between a doc and a biopic/historical drama, i'm gonna personally prefer the doc just about every time, and in the case of this movie v marwencol that is a very easy choice to make. still though, this wasn't nearly as bad as the harsh reception it got! i mean, ok, i do agree that it was a little overly treacly/sentimental, and maybe its treatment of mental health/ptsd was not ideal, and maybe adding in a love interest character was a mistake...ok y'know what actually there isn't much to defend here. but i wasn't, like, making a disgusted face the whole... read more