...cause people in reality would never throw a national spelling bee over such silliness. I completely forgave the movie for its sickening angst but not after such a terrible ending.
I don't care the reason for it. I watch movies to celebrate. That little girl went through all the trouble to get to a national stage and then she throws it? Give me a break. And all the family is high-fiving over it and being all weepy-woo over it? Not going to buy it.
Everyone I watched it with was disgusted.
And the dad, seemed like one of the best dad's you could ever have yet he was made out to be a meddler? What the? If he would have ignored her success then he would have been knifed for that - can't win for losing. And a major flaw is the teenage son being a big fan of dad and very well balanced in the beginning, then he suddenly becomes a caricature of teen angst, even tellign his little sister to lose cause, "Its all about him anyway". Sheesh - thats made-for-TV crapola.
What is happening with movies where there are no winners in the end? Lets get back to the simple pleasures in life, like a happy ending in a movie.
I know this is based on a book and maybe they couldn't change the ending, but at least explain yourself better than the movie did. "Thats my daughter..", the mother happily weeps in the mental hospital after she threw the game, but I had no sympathy for any of it. Maybe thats why she was in the mental hospital, for that sort of behavior.
I don't care the reason for it. I watch movies to celebrate. That little girl went through all the trouble to get to a national stage and then she throws it? Give me a break. And all the family is high-fiving over it and being all weepy-woo over it? Not going to buy it.
Everyone I watched it with was disgusted.
And the dad, seemed like one of the best dad's you could ever have yet he was made out to be a meddler? What the? If he would have ignored her success then he would have been knifed for that - can't win for losing. And a major flaw is the teenage son being a big fan of dad and very well balanced in the beginning, then he suddenly becomes a caricature of teen angst, even tellign his little sister to lose cause, "Its all about him anyway". Sheesh - thats made-for-TV crapola.
What is happening with movies where there are no winners in the end? Lets get back to the simple pleasures in life, like a happy ending in a movie.
I know this is based on a book and maybe they couldn't change the ending, but at least explain yourself better than the movie did. "Thats my daughter..", the mother happily weeps in the mental hospital after she threw the game, but I had no sympathy for any of it. Maybe thats why she was in the mental hospital, for that sort of behavior.