directed by: Nick Hamm
113 minutes
Superstars: Greg Kinnear (I love you), Rebecca Romaijn, Robert DeNiro.
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I bet you a dollar if you're over 35...you probably enjoyed this movie.....
...otherwise... not so much.
Godsend is what I call an 'over xxx' age film because they predicably appeal to those in a certian age bracket. Here are the main points.
Career couple
single child
man up for promotion/job change/moving cities
mad scientist professor from 'back in college' days
kid birthdays
freak accident
cloning
I am being very vague/general when I type the above only because I am not of the stereotypical age where all of the above is important to me. I can't react obsessively to losing a child when I've never had a child to be obsessed over. I'm not married, my husband is not being plagued by a midlife career change, and if I found out I was a clone...I'd be a bit pissed off.
First thing that irritated the crap out of me in this movie is poor Cameron Bright and being given a really lame annoying character to play. First thing out of my mouth was 'Oh boy, that kid is going to get annoying really quick'.
And he did.
Second thing that annoyed the crap out of me is the fact that the couple didn't have mobile phones (you see them wayy later in the movie). If you can afford to live in the city, be a career couple, and are as old as you are... don't you think you'd freakin' have MOBILE PHONES? Get with the freakin' time and place here people. Greg Kinnear's character didn't find out about his kid dying (pre clone) until he got off work. Realistically now... if something of that magnitude happened, you'd get contacted wayyy before then. and HELLO? MOBILE PHONES? Total wtf moment.
I admit, I was creeped out. It was the audio that got me not the actual content. I'm not one to easily predict the outcome of movies very easily (I'm too open to hoping to be caught off guard) but I nailed this one. I feel a bit bad that I didn't give this movie a better chance to redeem itself but 5 minutes into the movie I wanted to turn it off.
Way. Too. Predicable.
And poor poor Cameron Bright. I'm soooo sorry you got a shit character to play. I hope your career keeps going and is as bright for you as your last name.
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Posted by prism at November 9, 2004 11:48 PMDid you watch the multiple endings on the dvd?
There were like 8 endings, that pretty much were all the same except 2.
I watched this movie pretty much on fast forward with the subtitles. That's how bored I was.
Yeah, I watched all 8 alterna-endings hoping and praying that *maybe* just *mayyyyybeeee* one of them would not piss me off.
The only one that came close was when the kid 'terminated' the mad scientist dude and then ran off.
Other than that I was like... (yawn).
ps: totally did the fast forward thing also.