Maybe there was a case of bad expectations at work–I was expecting a political thriller rather than science fiction–but I wasn’t digging it from the start. Maybe I’m not romantic enough, but I didn’t think the stakes were ever that high.
But towards the end, it went from being dumb to obnoxiously, offensively heavy-handed. Emily Blunt cries to her forbidden lover “Why do they care about us?” to which Matt Damon replies “Because of their dumb book! They think it can’t be wrong!”
Yeah, yeah, the 1950s throwback reactionaries obsessed with a book they think has all the answers trying to stick their noses in other peoples’ business and keep perfectly good couples apart…


teaching my newborn humility with WHAT ABOUT BOB? "This movie was here before you, and will be around long after you've gone."
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26 years old, live in the rural northwest of Sullivan County, N.Y., though a native of the South. Obsessed with genealogy and (Not unrelated) Confederate Apologetics. Published in