For those of you who remember those non-stop cigarette ads before they were banned on television, thus my caption. And following are some of my annoyances with this film.
In the opening scene, Dory tells her boyfriend Bud that she is pregnant. What does he do? Lights up a cancer stick and blows smoke right into her face and then gives HER a puff, which he also does a little later at a restaurant.
Secondly, during the film's first 10-15 minutes, Bud must call Dory her name at least 5 or 6 times or MORE, while Dory, who is obviously madly in love with him, not only does NOT call him his name ONCE but doesn't even use any terms of endearment. Nor does his mother call him anything but "son" once in their first scene together. Of course, we know WHY he is never referred to by his first or last name halfway into the film. Then, immediately after the scene on the bleachers, Dory runs into one of her professors and immediately calls him by his first name, Gordon! Absolutely ridiculous.
Thirdly, Bud, who is avoiding having him or Dory spotted together, drives with her to the drugstore to get her some pain medicine and parks right next to a NO PARKING sign right in front of the drugstore! Not something a person who is avoiding being seen would do!
And finally my last grievance, because I've met my minimum character requirement, when Bud is in the chemistry supplies lab concocting his poisonous gelatin capsules, the girl who he follows into the lab leaves and then while he is putting the poison in an envelope, she surprises him by coming back to retrieve her notebook. When she re-enters, he abruptly turns to her with the most obvious look of surprise and guilt, yet all she does is smile, says she forgot her notebook, and leaves the lab.
Then, once he is ready to leave the lab (with the lab light out behind him that can be seen through the opaque glass door window), he opens and abruptly (yet silently) closes the lab door because there is a professor less than 2 or 3 feet away facing the lab door speaking to another student, yet the professor somehow doesn't see this right in front of his face nor notes this as suspicious behavior for a chemistry supplies lab that requires an entry key and contains poisonous materials! Also ridiculous!
Enough said. And this all takes place in just the first 20 minutes or so of the film!
In the opening scene, Dory tells her boyfriend Bud that she is pregnant. What does he do? Lights up a cancer stick and blows smoke right into her face and then gives HER a puff, which he also does a little later at a restaurant.
Secondly, during the film's first 10-15 minutes, Bud must call Dory her name at least 5 or 6 times or MORE, while Dory, who is obviously madly in love with him, not only does NOT call him his name ONCE but doesn't even use any terms of endearment. Nor does his mother call him anything but "son" once in their first scene together. Of course, we know WHY he is never referred to by his first or last name halfway into the film. Then, immediately after the scene on the bleachers, Dory runs into one of her professors and immediately calls him by his first name, Gordon! Absolutely ridiculous.
Thirdly, Bud, who is avoiding having him or Dory spotted together, drives with her to the drugstore to get her some pain medicine and parks right next to a NO PARKING sign right in front of the drugstore! Not something a person who is avoiding being seen would do!
And finally my last grievance, because I've met my minimum character requirement, when Bud is in the chemistry supplies lab concocting his poisonous gelatin capsules, the girl who he follows into the lab leaves and then while he is putting the poison in an envelope, she surprises him by coming back to retrieve her notebook. When she re-enters, he abruptly turns to her with the most obvious look of surprise and guilt, yet all she does is smile, says she forgot her notebook, and leaves the lab.
Then, once he is ready to leave the lab (with the lab light out behind him that can be seen through the opaque glass door window), he opens and abruptly (yet silently) closes the lab door because there is a professor less than 2 or 3 feet away facing the lab door speaking to another student, yet the professor somehow doesn't see this right in front of his face nor notes this as suspicious behavior for a chemistry supplies lab that requires an entry key and contains poisonous materials! Also ridiculous!
Enough said. And this all takes place in just the first 20 minutes or so of the film!