House of Sand and Fog

[thatpfunk]

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It's certainly a well-done film, and the acting is excelllent...but I admire it a lot more than I like it.

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[WillMagic]

I don't have any desire to see it again...and it took me 2-3 sittings to get through it. I got bored.

That said...even if I'm not particularly fond of a film I can still appreciate things that it does well...in this case I thought the acting was superb and the characters were complex and well-written. So I admire it more than I like it.

The movie that is most often referred to as admired more than liked is Citizen Kane. I'm not in that camp, but I encountered the phrase while reading about Citizen Kane.

Will

[Benal]

I think what made this movie even better for me was that I had no idea what to expect, or what it was about. A great character driven flick..

[jojobinks]

what i liked about it; it was willing to be unlikeable. what i hate most about movies i hate: they're too eager to please, and to fit a genre. house of sand and fog had a very particular story, that didn't fit very well into a genre (not even some sort of pseudo-genre like oscar magnet).

and kingsley and connely were pretty great in it, too.

oh yeah, and she's hot

[thatpfunk]

Gotcha, and I think understandable.

I thought it was an intensely interesting character driven story.

[Guthrie]

Terrible movie. Laughable script. Inept direction. The best part was laughing out loud at the idiotic situations that just kept piling on top of each other.

[thatpfunk]

Um, ok. Not sure exactly how to respond.

[theBruiser500]

great movie, sad

[ThaSaltCracka]

I just saw this, I liked it a lot.

[Blarg]

Definitely worth seeing multiple times.

There are not many situations in fiction or real life where it's acknowledged much how deeply people can feel about things, and how reasonable it can seem, yet still be completely in conflict with one another. It's so much easier and less messy to think in terms of an absolutist either/or.