Every-time I watch a romance movie I'm going to either really love it or really hate it. This movie is one of those examples.
1. The characters are so bland and forgettable. They don't learn anything from there experience. All I know about the main guy is that he rides bulls and that's it. The lead girl is into art and nothing else. Alan Alda is old with letters and that's all we know about him. Every character is just a one character description.
2. The story has too many coincidences and questions. What was his health problem that injured him so badly? Why does her family take her to the bull rides? Why did the guy promise to quit bull riding but only after he won the championship? Plus the coincidences are over the top. The elderly mans wife happened to be an artist like the main girl, his wife had issues with him going to war kind of like the bull riding with the two leads, the wife also had difficulties in their relationship just like the leads, she collects art just like the main girl etc.
3. The romance is so dull and bleak to watch. After maybe five weeks of knowing each other she gets into a fight with him saying: how can you do this when I've given up every thing for you? I'm sorry but you've had an on and off relationship with him for five weeks. You shouldn't plan ahead with him in a life when you've hardly known him. Most of the time they talk it's exposition dialog that doesn't improve their characters so they can know each other.
This movie is just every example of a bad romance movie. No chemistry of romance with the leads, no character development with anyone in general, unanswered questions, too many coincidences and overall it feels five times longer than it actually is with it's awful pacing. The opening to UP is more romantic than this.
Just watch Amélie, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind or The Princess Bride. Those are better romances than this mess.
1. The characters are so bland and forgettable. They don't learn anything from there experience. All I know about the main guy is that he rides bulls and that's it. The lead girl is into art and nothing else. Alan Alda is old with letters and that's all we know about him. Every character is just a one character description.
2. The story has too many coincidences and questions. What was his health problem that injured him so badly? Why does her family take her to the bull rides? Why did the guy promise to quit bull riding but only after he won the championship? Plus the coincidences are over the top. The elderly mans wife happened to be an artist like the main girl, his wife had issues with him going to war kind of like the bull riding with the two leads, the wife also had difficulties in their relationship just like the leads, she collects art just like the main girl etc.
3. The romance is so dull and bleak to watch. After maybe five weeks of knowing each other she gets into a fight with him saying: how can you do this when I've given up every thing for you? I'm sorry but you've had an on and off relationship with him for five weeks. You shouldn't plan ahead with him in a life when you've hardly known him. Most of the time they talk it's exposition dialog that doesn't improve their characters so they can know each other.
This movie is just every example of a bad romance movie. No chemistry of romance with the leads, no character development with anyone in general, unanswered questions, too many coincidences and overall it feels five times longer than it actually is with it's awful pacing. The opening to UP is more romantic than this.
Just watch Amélie, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind or The Princess Bride. Those are better romances than this mess.