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Summary: unreal
Review: affleck and paltrow do their best, but the script is just plain lousy. Too much of it is so contrived, that I, at least, couldnt just forget about it. I kept asking: why would anyone do that? as a result the characters' dilemmas are unconvincing and the way they agonize over them seems silly.
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Summary: Bounce
Review: This movie is SO Good!! Ben Affleck is really hot! This movie is so sad and it's really great! Everyone should see it!
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Summary: Not worth any price.
Review: What a horrid little flick. I felt slightly guilty for even spending a good $3.50 to rent it. I usually like Ben Affleck, but he was boring and pretty stiff in this one. You wouldn't even KNOW that Gwenyth Paltrow is an Oscar-winner judging from this movie. The plot was contrived and had lots of gaping holes. It also jumped to quickly from event to event and things worked out much too well in the end. I'm ashamed to admit that I watched the whole thing from beginning to end, just waiting for it to get better. But just like a fatal car wreck, this didn't leave me with a happy ending.
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Summary: Gwyneth good, Ben bad
Review: Don't get me wrong--"Bounce" is an entirely enjoyable little movie. Ben Affleck plays a man who ultimately feels responsible for Gwyneth's husband's death in a plane crash. So he waits a year, gets himself straightened out, and goes to apologize to her--only to find himself falling in love.Will they or won't they end up together? The ending doesn't provide much suspense--the only real question is when Gwyneth is going to find out what happened. To the filmmakers' credit, the scene is later than would be expected, which allows some tension to build. The major problem with this movie is that Ben Affleck never quite musters the dramatic intensity that is required of him in a few scenes. There is one particularly uncomfortable moment when you want him to stop talking about his feelings--because he just isn't believable. This is especially obvious when contrasted with Gwyneth's seemingly effortless performance. A good supporting cast, including Johnny Galecki of "Roseanne" fame and the too-little seen Tony Goldwyn. A slight but enjoyable film--but I might recommend hitting the fast-forward button when Ben gets misty.
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Summary: How did this get in theaters??
Review: Whoa,This movie left me with this weird feeling. I thought the plot was way too weak to even make a movie out of. Gwyneth and Ben tried , but this movie obviously wasn't worth the money put into it. The movie's plot was very un-interesting. I didn't like the ending. What were these two ACADAMY AWARD WINNERS thinking when they agreed to be in this movie. On top of it all this movie is Quite depressing.
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Summary: A HUGE Disappointment
Review: I originally had no intention of ever seeing this movie. The previews never looked interesting, and I find Ben Affleck shallow and arrogant. (The one aspect of the viewing experience that was not disappointing was that Ben Affleck lived up (down?) to my expectations.) But then I realized that "Bounce" was written and directed by Don Roos, who wrote and directed one of the best films of 1998 -- "The Opposite of Sex." Consequently, I came to expect a somewhat offbeat movie infused with depth AND wit. Instead, we get the standard-issue, banal boy-meets-girl, boy-gets-girl, boy-loses-girl, etc... movie. No further comment needs to be made about Ben Affleck -- except that he/his character is SO obnoxious at the beginning of the movie that the one-night-stand (with the radiant Natasha Henstridge) that sets up the plot seems highly improbable. Gwyneth Paltrow tries very hard to create another of her intelligent, graceful characters, but is ultimately doomed to failure because there is nothing she can do to elevate her character above the mediocrity of the film. (Or perhaps she flounders because she can't even believe her character is in love with Ben Affleck's because she can't believe she was ever in love with him.) The only shining light in the picture comes from Johnny Galecki's understated but hilarious performance in a small part that, strangely, seems to be the most three-dimensional characte in this movie. Don't buy this movie. Don't even rent it. See it only if it comes on cable at a time when you have nothing better to do.
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Summary: DVD missing promised parts
Review: "Bounce" is a strange film. It is a dark romance that really has no satisfactory ending. The two leads suffer through unpleasant situations that can not lead to a happy solution as they are written. For some unexplained reason, the Ben Affleck character never comes right out and tells the Gweneth Paltrow character that he switched plane tickets with her husband on the ill fated flight. It is a fatal flaw. A viewer would think that after having gone through a year of therapy, he could face what had happened. Instead, the script is padded with silly evasions and outfight lies. The leads are very attractive with obvious chemistry that could have produced a wonderful romantic film, but it never happens. One of the major faults with the DVD package is that the director and the cast promise in voice over narrations to show a number of deleted scenes on the DVD plus three alternate endings, but they are NOT included. Since there is is second disk just for the bonus materials, these omissions could not be because of lack of disk space. This is a really unfortunate situation. Once it was decided to not use those scenes, the mentions should have been edited out of the voice over tracks. With the poor story line and the features left out of the bonus materials, this is not one of the better offerings on DVD.
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Summary: THE SIZZLE FIZZLES...
Review: The movie starts off promisingly enough. Successful businessman, Buddy Amaral, played by Ben Affleck, leads a shallow, sophomoric existence. Failed playwright, Greg Gennello, played by Tony Goldwyn, is happily married and has a rich family life. Their worlds collide when they meet in an airport and get to talking. Both headed to the same destination, Greg wants to get home to his family but is bumped from his flight, while Buddy wants to miss that very same flight so that he can have a one night stand with a beautiful fellow traveler. In a moment of wild abandon, Buddy gives his ticket to Greg who then boards the plane in his stead. Unfortunately, this act of seeming generosity by Buddy has dire consequences, as the plane crashes and Greg is killed. When Buddy later discovers this turn of events, it is a moment of reckoning for him, and he goes into a personal downward spiral. A year later, after a stint in rehab to get his drinking under control, he seeks out Greg's widow, Abby, played by Gwyneth Paltrow. Still feeling guilty over Greg's death, Buddy seeks redemption by doing something nice for Greg's widow, who, as the single parent of two young boys, is now trying to make ends meet as a real estate agent. He gives her a sizable real estate commission to handle, though she is unqualified, and soon they begin dating and fall in love. At this juncture, Buddy has still not told her that their meeting was not kismet. To make a long story short, Abby discovers, in a rather unpleasant way, the part that Buddy played in Greg having been on that fatal flight. The movie then goes south. What had started out promisingly enough, takes a strange twist. While there is, undeniably, chemistry between the two stars, which explains their off screen romance, their sizzle is not enough to keep this movie on even keel, and the movie begins to flatline. Notwithstanding the eleventh hour fizzle, however, it is still a moderately enjoyable movie.
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Summary: Underrated
Review: This movie surprised me by how good it really was. I am not a fan of Ben Affleck and frankly, my girlfriend made me watch it. At first the movie's plot just seemed so contrived, but when the two title characters meet you care so much for them that you actually believe that it happened. Gwyneth Paltrow was way too close to home when playing widow, and Ben Affleck did a pretty good job, reincarnating Jerry Maguire. From businessman to falling in love, he was, I have to admit, believable. The conversations between the title characters was very real thanks to the screenplay by Don Roos. This was his best movie to date, because I may be the only one to say this, 'The Opposite of Sex' was a jumbled up piece of mess. His characters have faults and I think that is great because so many charcters have no flaws whatsoever and it makes their characters phony. Maybe it's not for everybody, but this is one of the few so-called 'chick-flicks' that I could watch again. In fact, when it comes out on video, I might buy it for my girlfriend, but deep down it's really for me!
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Summary: Ben and Gwen chemistry on and off the screen
Review: I always thought that Ben Affleck was a wonderful actor, in comedy and drama, and Gwen has always been my favorite dramatic actress, but never put them together as being good together on the silver screen. Boy was I wrong! This movie about dealing with your skeletons and coping with loss pulls at your heart strings. It tells the tale from both perspectives of Abby Janello and Buddy Amaral so you get in touch with both sides of the story and not just one. Buddy trades his plane ticket with Abby's husband Greg on a snowy night so he can use his arrogant charm to seduce an attractive blonde he met in the bar that night. I won't spoil the movie but Buddy finds himself not only trading a ticket, but lives with Greg. This movie is about self discovery and recovery after disaster pulls these two people together. I suggest this for any and everyone. No sex junk either!
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