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Following along with Christine's comment, I don't care if these sorts of romances actually happened, but seriously. She was his dead wife's sister. If that was just a way for the filmmakers to grant Mel Gibson a leading lady, then they should have just opted out of that one. Too creepy for my taste, thank you. --Kelly Wuyscik | Following along with Christine's comment, I don't care if these sorts of romances actually happened, but seriously. She was his dead wife's sister. If that was just a way for the filmmakers to grant Mel Gibson a leading lady, then they should have just opted out of that one. Too creepy for my taste, thank you. --Kelly Wuyscik | ||
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| + | Kelly- The Ben-Charlotte deal didn't actually seem so unrealistic to me. If Charlotte was single or widowed or whatever, and Ben was widowered as well, it might make sense at that time from a financial/economic standpoint for the two of them to get together. Knowing this already, it doesn't seem that far out that they might start to like each other. And she reminds him a lot of his wife (even that she had to remind him she was not her sister). - Whitney H. | ||
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Overall, the movie wasn’t bad. It was fairly entertaining, and the cast was made up of some pretty awesome actors, like Jason Isaacs (always playing the bad guy) and Rene Auberjonois. However, the romance was cliché. I had a sinking feeling of dread that Ben and Aunt Charlotte would get together the first time they stood in the same vicinity as each other. And so it was. Then we have Benjamin Martin not willing to fight the British, but when his son is killed we see him go into ''Action Hero Rambo'' mode where he beats down twenty redcoats with a little help from his younger sons. That was definitely in the vein of Hollywood revenge/action flicks of the... well, for many years now. And let's not talk about those parenting skills. --Taylor Brann | Overall, the movie wasn’t bad. It was fairly entertaining, and the cast was made up of some pretty awesome actors, like Jason Isaacs (always playing the bad guy) and Rene Auberjonois. However, the romance was cliché. I had a sinking feeling of dread that Ben and Aunt Charlotte would get together the first time they stood in the same vicinity as each other. And so it was. Then we have Benjamin Martin not willing to fight the British, but when his son is killed we see him go into ''Action Hero Rambo'' mode where he beats down twenty redcoats with a little help from his younger sons. That was definitely in the vein of Hollywood revenge/action flicks of the... well, for many years now. And let's not talk about those parenting skills. --Taylor Brann | ||
