I will grant that Kevin Costner and Joan Allen did a great acting job. So did the lovely young ladies who played the daughters, including the ones nearly 30 who managed to look like they are still late teens / early 20s.
But then I got to thinking about it and it dawned on me that this movie is just a poster child, so to speak, of a lot of the stuff that is just flat wrong in society these days. And Hollywood just passes it off as being perfectly normal.
Drug abuse.
Alcohol abuse.
Indiscrimate sex. And pedophilia to boot.
The (almost mandatory these days) gender-challenged person who is portrayed as being quite normal, thank you.
And the blatant disrespect shown by the girls to their mother is just jawdropping. If my sister, at that age, had talked to my mother the way these girls are portrayed talking to theirs, her life as she knew it would have ended on the spot. My mother would have been all over her like white on rice.
I gave this movie a 3 instead of a 0 because of the strength of Costner/Allen's roles. But overall, it sucked badly. I'm sorry I spent the money on it, and I'm depressed after watching it.
But then I got to thinking about it and it dawned on me that this movie is just a poster child, so to speak, of a lot of the stuff that is just flat wrong in society these days. And Hollywood just passes it off as being perfectly normal.
Drug abuse.
Alcohol abuse.
Indiscrimate sex. And pedophilia to boot.
The (almost mandatory these days) gender-challenged person who is portrayed as being quite normal, thank you.
And the blatant disrespect shown by the girls to their mother is just jawdropping. If my sister, at that age, had talked to my mother the way these girls are portrayed talking to theirs, her life as she knew it would have ended on the spot. My mother would have been all over her like white on rice.
I gave this movie a 3 instead of a 0 because of the strength of Costner/Allen's roles. But overall, it sucked badly. I'm sorry I spent the money on it, and I'm depressed after watching it.