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I Care a Lot - on Prime

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PuppyMonkey · 20/02/2021 21:35

Great performances and totally got my attention all the way through.

And I know there’s a place for dark subject matter.

But i can’t help thinking this massively, I dunno, missed the current zeitgeist. Haven’t you got to like the main character at least a bit? Because I definitely didn’t.

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Bluewavescrashing · 20/02/2021 21:36

This just reminds me of care bears 🤗

CheeseAndBaconOatcake · 20/02/2021 21:45

I thought it was enjoyable nonsense. We watched it as a family and chatted about it today - everyone had really enjoyed it.

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PuppyMonkey · 20/02/2021 21:48

Yes it was engaging, I’m not sure I’d say I enjoyed it though. I just felt ripping old folk off and being really proud of it was a tad... misjudged?

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Inthevirtualwaitingroom · 21/02/2021 07:29

It started off so well but when neither of them met their death, i was like Who are we meant to be rooting for?
i guess the fact they got together was ok, enough but i was glad she was shot.

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PuppyMonkey · 21/02/2021 07:42

Me too @Inthevirtualwaitingroom - although I’d have preferred it if she’d been exposed/ sent to prison. Maybe as a result of Peter D’s mum doing investigative work in the home. I felt she needed more of a satisfactory revenge story arc!

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MaMaLa321 · 21/02/2021 10:44

I loved it until about half an hour before the end.
Rosemond Pike, Peter Dinklage and whoever played the lawyer were fantastic, and whoever played the mother was amazing.
But
it seriously lost its way. It started off as intelligent, and then became stupid. It was utterly unbelievable that Marla wouldn't have been scared. Were we meant to start rooting for her at that point?
All the usual crap - so the car goes into the lake and they don't hang around a bit to make sure she doesn't come out. They follow the driver for hours, and he doesn't notice?
I think that the ending was originally that she succeeded, and that trial audiences hated the ending so much that they put in the lame shooting at the end.
There were so many opportunities for a clever tie up (I really wanted to see more of the mother). I was disappointed, especially as it had absolutely gripped me at the start.
Oh, and the girlfriend getting thoroughly beaten up and ending up with a photogenic bruise on her cheekbone. And the whole lesbian thing.

Inthevirtualwaitingroom · 21/02/2021 10:50

agree totally @MaMaLa321

the obligatory sex/lesbianism

MaMaLa321 · 21/02/2021 10:55

I don't believe someone like Marla would be capable of a relationship. And if she was, why does it have to be so gorgeous?
Actually, I do know why

Inthevirtualwaitingroom · 21/02/2021 11:08

it made me feel so uncomfortable at the beginning, all the swindling, but absolutely lost its way when they thought they had killed her.

BaconAndAvocado · 21/02/2021 12:31

I too was pleased that she got shot at the end but the ending seemed rushed and ill conceived.

As another poster commented it was probably the result of trial audiences disliking the original ending.

YourWurstNightmare · 21/02/2021 18:08

The lesbian thing bugged me, too. Women can be close friends without porn-y sex scenes for the menz.

It lost me with the lead character turning into an action hero. And no way would they have gone into business together after what she did to his mum.

I remember reading an article about guardianship in the US a few years ago. It really is as nuts and corrupted as the film made it seem, so they got that part right.

Inthevirtualwaitingroom · 21/02/2021 18:33

really? that is appalling

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PuppyMonkey · 21/02/2021 18:49

I just assumed that had all been simplified for the plot Wurst - blimey the US system seems scary.

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alloverthecarpetagain · 23/02/2021 11:18

I liked the fact it had a good pace to it though like pp have said I'd have liked to have seen more of the mother Diane Wiest (Hannah and Her Sisters - anyone?) as she was great. I thought it made an interesting point about the US system where this can actually happen and where it is in plain sight. It made a change from murder crime things.

NoSleepHere123 · 23/02/2021 15:14

Loved the first half, right up until his ex mafia crew were apparently really shit at killing and/or scaring people (this is their actual profession!). Nevermind the fact that she managed to get the upper hand over them so, so easily. I mean, honestly, it was so stupid.

I don't mind that we don't like her as a character, nor him. That adds to the film for me, not rooting for either. The mum really was the best character, more of her and her backstory would have been great.

hopeishere · 14/03/2021 08:41

Watched this last night. Pretty dire. The first 40 minutes are good but then it's terrible. It can't decide if it's a black comedy, a thriller, an action movie. Making the "look" all stylish throws it in one direction but the plot in another.

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