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BlueStater

(7,596 posts) Tue Nov 18, 2014, 10:48 AM Nov 2014

Jack (1996) was a movie I saw when I was a kid.

It was a light-hearted, if fairly forgettable, children's movie.

It was directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Yes, the guy who directed "The Godfather".

Today, Robin Williams has killed himself and Bill Cosby is allegedly a serial rapist.

Sometimes, I just don't want to live on this planet.

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Jack (1996) was a movie I saw when I was a kid. (Original Post) BlueStater Nov 2014 OP

It was an awful, terrible film. CBGLuthier Nov 2014 #1

I found myself thinking about this film for some odd reason. Tommy_Carcetti Nov 2014 #2

CBGLuthier

(12,723 posts)

1. It was an awful, terrible film.

Reply to BlueStater (Original post)

Tue Nov 18, 2014, 11:45 AM

Nov 2014

Cloying unscientific crap. Visual glurge. The film that finally convinced me that Coppola's good films were irrevocably behind him.

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,181 posts)

2. I found myself thinking about this film for some odd reason.

Reply to BlueStater (Original post)

Tue Nov 18, 2014, 11:59 AM

Nov 2014

Basically, finding it depressing that we'll never see Robin Williams get to be as old as he was at the end of the movie.

Other than that, it was a fairly forgettable film.

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