The Train, Boss, the Train!

[caitri]

We took friend Kristin to Thanksgiving with Scott's family. His ninety-five year old grandfather kept informing relatives over the phone that Scott was visiting with his wife and girlfriend. ("It's hardly fair," said Kristin, "I could be Cait's girlfriend instead of Scott's!") We've been calling Scott a pimp ever since

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[mallorypen]

Twisted: Also involves some domestic abuse. Less Chris Pine, but such a good movie!

[caitri]

Good to know!

[caitri]

...You are so odd. *hug*

[littlemissgriff]

THANK YOU. The whole domestic abuse thing bothered me a lot. It just... I know they were trying to present a flawed character, but stopping the runaway train doesn't actually make him 'deep and conflicted'. It just means he doesn't think about the dumb shit he's doing.

Which is basically proven throughout the whole movie. Didn't count the cars, doesn't like listening to the more experienced man, lost his shit and threatened a cop, and chased after a runaway train - which wasn't even his idea. He just did it anyway.

Yes, yes, family, Stanton, etc etc, but yeaaaah. I wasn't real fond of him.

[caitri]

I know! It was like they just throwed that in there randomly, too. And Denzel's character was like, Yeah, women. WTF?!

[littlemissgriff]

I mean, honestly, I could have gone with it if their conversation about it had been different. I mean, yeah, he seemed sorry... but sorry he'd been wrong, not sorry he did it. Sorry because of the consequences. Never once does he really seem to think he reacted incorrectly to the entire situation.

'I mean what would you do if she was cheating. Oops, she wasn't, but if she HAD been, it was totally justified!' That outlook is not ok in my book.

If Denzel's character had been more troubled by it and they actually had a discussion about what happened instead of 'Huh, yeah. That sucks, man.'

I guess if you're going for 'real people', it's pretty spot on. Guys tend to do the whole hands off approach. However, it is a film, which means you have the choice to make people just a little wiser, a little more redeemable, than they really were.

[caitri]

Which makes no sense, since Denzel's got two daughters. I kept waiting for him to say something like, Man tried that on my daughters, I'd fix him. Not "Go call your wife, it's the way they are."

[joirerson]

Yanno, somebody else in fandom mentioned the restraining order thing and I was so close to giving in and seeing the movie, but that made me go hell to the no. I've met dudes socially who think that stuff isn't a big deal and it just makes me shake with anger. Just, no. I think that would mess up the entire movie for me.

That said, Denzel is fine!!! I'd be happy if somebody in fandom just clipped that movie for the parts relevant to our interests.

[caitri]

Yeah I found it to be a pretty massive fail for the flick. Andhonestly, if you've seen all the pics of Chris without a shirt, you've seen the good stuff. Denzel looked tired and worn, and even his BAMFness was meh.

[joirerson]

Say no more! I will probably give my money to Harry Potter, or that Burlesque movie. Domestic!violence!fail makes me livid.

[caitri]

Yeah, wait for the good bits to show up on Youtube. :)

[caitri]

YES. I heard about that. Magical growing families are the best.

And yeah, the movie was lame, but a good way to hide from Black Friday shoppers for two hours.