Some the characters' behaviors in this movie make you seriously question its credibility. For example, after meeting the love of his life, having forgotten the three years he spent with her, Michael doesn't even blink. Not one emotion shows at the surface. When they both go back, and Rethrick waits for them to fix the machine, there's no good explanation why Michael actually does that. Being so smart and intuitive throughout the movie, he doesn't realize Rethrick's scheme? I would ask for at least a minimum of ambivalence in this matter, having to fix it in order to escape, while trying at least to try and prevent the destruction of the world.
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Chasing Amy
(1997)
People Change, you know...
7 May 2006
Warning: Spoilers
I'll cut right to the chase. (SPOILER, BEWARE!). He tells her he's in love with her, adds a cute smile and some really emotional sentiments, and poof! Magic. Years of building her sexual identity, trying everything (yech, that finger cuffs story was awful, and certainly didn't need repeating), and finally defining herself as a lesbian, all vanish into thin air, just because he "get's her" and she got to this relationship "on her own terms"? I don't buy it. It's insulting. I'm straight and I was offended in the name of all gay people. Don't watch this movie if you're into to gay films. Don't watch it if you're into romance. Don't even watch it if you're into comics. Watch it only if you're into Ben Afleck, or perhaps if you're really into Rene Zellweger and you already saw all her movies. Joey Lauren Adams certainly looks and talks like her. Especially in those scenes where she mumbles at the top of her squeaky voice while sobbing on Ben's shoulder.
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