WARNING: If Bambi and Old Yeller upset you, DON'T watch that Anne Hathaway film "One Day."

[Amerigo Vespucci]

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Well, I guess I don't need to give you a spoiler alert, because the thread title itself is pretty much a spoiler. I had HBO on yesterday while waiting for Bill Maher's show. Saw the last 45 minutes or so of "One Day." Wished I'd watched something else.

[siligut]

1. Sometimes Anne Hathaway just irritates me

So, I might just watch it for that.

[jp11]

2. I think she's british in this so I'm out.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

5. Most of the reviews on Amazon said "Her accent wasn't REALLY that bad"

I just thought the movie was INCREDIBLY CONTRIVED. I understand there are certain conventions in "love stories," but I just found the movie to be manipulative.

It's like the book "The Shack." I read the whole thing and when I got to the point where the payoff was revealed I wanted to throw it out the nearest damned WINDOW.

[PassingFair]

7. Her accent was horrendous!

There's one point in the movie where she utters the phrase
"large body of water".

It rings SO phony that my daughter and I both busted out laughing.

[mwdem]

3. I go sucked into it.

I really like Jim Sturgess, and Anne, sometimes. I had to watch it until the end.

[rurallib]

4. did they take her out in the back 40 and shoot her?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

6. Either that or she died in the forest fire

Oh, wait...that was Bambi's mom.

I believe they did take her out back and shoot her.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

8. I watched it very late one night -

and had trouble sleeping afterwards. I really felt taken advantage of as a viewer. To spend an entire movie showing us how perfect they really are for each other and making us want them to get together, then killing her off like that?? The whole thing felt very wrong.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

9. "Manipulative," like I said above.

It really felt a little crass and calculating, like they started off with the germ of a story being that the "female romantic lead" would get flattened by a delivery truck, and their job was to "flesh out" the story to support that.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

10. This piece --

really nails it about the movie/ending:

http://www.vulture.com/2011/08/one_day_and_its_dumb_ending.html

[Amerigo Vespucci]

11. It certainly did...

...especially pointing out the fact that the "not giving the audience what they want" thing CAN work out, as it did with David Chase and "The Sopranos." I watched every episode of that series, but if you asked me if I wanted it to end with Tony and his family munching on onion rings while listening to Journey, I'm pretty sure I would have said no.

[harmonicon]

12. So...

her mom gets shot by a hunter, and then her owner shoots her when she gets rabies? That's a movie I might want to see.