I forced myself to watch this through to the end.
It COULD have been so much better. So frustrating.
I suppose let me start with the good.
Supporting players:
Kathy Baker, Claire Danes and Michelle Pfeiffer are great. Of course, there's not enough Pfeiffer cuz she's a ghost.
Scenery-
Lovely beach sunny locations and a great beach house. What's not to like about that!
Ok, I'm running short on the good stuff now.
Now the bad.
The worst thing about this movie is PETER GALLAGHER. He just isn't up to this role.
Many times he's having scenes with the aforementioned ladies and I swear I can see in their eyes this look that's saying: "I'm getting nothing from this guy".
It's truly pathetic. He comes across like a mildly talented community theater amateur. He's jus so out of his league.
Now the writing. It's all over the place. This movie totally needed a script doctor.
As I was watching this I thought to myself, 14 year old girls would LOVE this movie.
Or, well, people who really haven't watched A LOT of really good movies that cover this sort of material.
Because the writing is off, the tone of the movie is off too. Things feel very awkward at times.
It's very strange. I haven't watched a movie like this in a long time, where you might get a good moment here and there (usually without Gallagher in it) and then a scene that just seems, well there's no other way to say it, STUPID.
This movie really could have been one of those sweet, tear jerker kind of movies, but there's a reason it's not known very well.
The MOST horrible thing about the movie is definitely GALLAGHER'S acting. A truly talented actor could have raised the quality of the movie from a 6 rating to easily a 7 or 8.
Some of the blame HAS to go to the director. Though who knows, maybe the director DID force Gallagher into multiple takes. At some point you can only use what you've got.
So there it is. An unfortunate miss.
It COULD have been so much better. So frustrating.
I suppose let me start with the good.
Supporting players:
Kathy Baker, Claire Danes and Michelle Pfeiffer are great. Of course, there's not enough Pfeiffer cuz she's a ghost.
Scenery-
Lovely beach sunny locations and a great beach house. What's not to like about that!
Ok, I'm running short on the good stuff now.
Now the bad.
The worst thing about this movie is PETER GALLAGHER. He just isn't up to this role.
Many times he's having scenes with the aforementioned ladies and I swear I can see in their eyes this look that's saying: "I'm getting nothing from this guy".
It's truly pathetic. He comes across like a mildly talented community theater amateur. He's jus so out of his league.
Now the writing. It's all over the place. This movie totally needed a script doctor.
As I was watching this I thought to myself, 14 year old girls would LOVE this movie.
Or, well, people who really haven't watched A LOT of really good movies that cover this sort of material.
Because the writing is off, the tone of the movie is off too. Things feel very awkward at times.
It's very strange. I haven't watched a movie like this in a long time, where you might get a good moment here and there (usually without Gallagher in it) and then a scene that just seems, well there's no other way to say it, STUPID.
This movie really could have been one of those sweet, tear jerker kind of movies, but there's a reason it's not known very well.
The MOST horrible thing about the movie is definitely GALLAGHER'S acting. A truly talented actor could have raised the quality of the movie from a 6 rating to easily a 7 or 8.
Some of the blame HAS to go to the director. Though who knows, maybe the director DID force Gallagher into multiple takes. At some point you can only use what you've got.
So there it is. An unfortunate miss.