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Originally Posted by sparky
I AM SO GLAD YOU SAID THIS.
I thought that damned thing this was so overblown, so over-rated and so didactic and ham wanted I wanted to gauge my eyes out with a fork. About forty five minutes into it, that prissy nurse, and the whole script, shifted from being characters talking to each other to mouthpieces talking AT the audience. I muted it, the BF was furious and went home to watch the rest. This was the beginning of the end of THAT relationship.
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Everything that was good about the play was absolutely obliterated on film. It was
destroyed. They took scenes that were incredibly emotional and touching, then turned them into repetitious and dull sequences that dragged on for twenty minutes at a time. Anyone who can look you in the eye and say it was a "masterpiece" is delusional. They ruined any true emotion that was there and turned it into Emmy bait. And I
love Mike Nichols, but this offering was unbearable. Go kiss up with Elaine May and make another good flick.
Mary Louise Parker was the only saving grace, but they even turned her story into a cartoon, practically.
Thank the stars you're out of that relationship, he sounds like the kind of guy who reads Nicholas Sparks novels and cries.
