Gosh! I forgot to post the title of the movie. :To Rome with Love”.
Woody musta grown up.
He’s in long pants, now.
I liked Midnight in Paris, but I was glad to see Allen in this one. His neurosis is usually not duplicated by the lead actor in his movies. And aren’t they all him living vicariously though them.
One non-political one on the plane “I don’t do turbulence.”
I know what Allen comments will come here and deservedly so, but I have been addicted to his movies for a long time.
Maybe he likes money more than he likes his values?
People can see the light but I wouldn’t bet on it until I saw further proof.
I so loved Allen’s earlier movies. IMHO, they were genius. Then he got weird and serious. And marrying his stepdaughter didn’t help.
Why do so many brilliant people throw everything away?
Sounds a lot like “One Two Three”.
Everyone jumping into bed with strangers turned me off.
Utter fiction: No self righteous liberal twit has ever apologized, especially for their misguided political beliefs.
I couldn't separate the movie from the movie-maker and viewed the whole thing as a disgusting rationalization of his own messed up personal life.
The whole time he was making his movie, he was sleeping with Mia Farrow and their daughter! And in the movie, he's pontificating on his themes to Mia Farrow, who's blissfully unaware how close to home his blather and rationalizations really are.
So, if he's looking to come aboard on the right, I'd rather pull up the gang plank.
Maybe he can cast Morgan Freeman in his next movie.
All dialog and plot devices point inexorably to the wisdom and correctness and desirability of his character.
No Woody Allen script has ever deviated the slightest from the above. There is no self reflection and no character growth - other than the ‘growth’ of the other characters into recognition of the wisdom correctness and desirability of Woody's character.
I wouldn't have time for a Woody Allen movie even if he didn't molest his stepdaughter and the sister of his children.
He must be sleeping with an 18 year old Republican.
His movies in the 1960s and 70s were goofy fun but marrying his step-daughter kind of ruined the Woodman for me. But thanks for the review, I would never have guessed.
Maybe it is true, then—the Ancient saying-—Wisdom only comes with Age.
As Communists always note——so everyone stays ignorant and hates their parents and has no respect for them-—Never listen to anyone over 30.
Conditioning to think old people are fools, is the opposite of what both Socrates and Confucius stated. Experience will produce Wisdom-—if one is willing to open their mind up to Knowledge and study. Growing in knowledge is a daily thing.
BTW, the genius of our Founding Fathers was extraordinary because of their young age——I read that somewhere. Their thinking was profound considering their young ages—Madison particularly. He was requesting the latest books of importance from Jefferson who was in Europe at the time-—anything new on political thought or philosophy. But back then, people didn’t have TV and Bread and Circuses like they do now (agitprop) to take them away from acquiring knowledge.
Note: The very LATE date of entering a “school”. Independent thinkers do NOT go to an indoctrination center before the Age of Reason-—that was Dewey’s influence (Fabian Socialist) who wanted to shape the “plastic minds” of the masses and get them before their Christian Foundation was laid and away from the influence of loving parents-—so they are emotional cripples and self-conscious about everything.
Look at Abe Lincoln-—how easily he was swayed by “group think”-—HA! No school than a few weeks when he was around 8.
“Group think” is the result of the Prussian system of education the Socialists designed for Germany which was dragged to American Schools (and Russian)-—along with Marxist curricula (moral relativism) by Dewey.
If it was an epiphany that Woody had-—it is a true belief in God. That is all which will make him Wise.
I just visited Rotten Tomatoes. Not one review, and I read about ten, mentioned this aspect of the movie. The flick seems to have generated more negative than positive comments.
I LOVED Woody Allen’s early movies. I HATED his later movies. I am disgusted by his relationship with his stepchild/wife.
Having said that and being dragged to see his last movie, I split a gut laughing.Absolutely hilarious! This is the Woody Allen of old.
Someone must have told him - you can gross more than $10-$15 million in sales if you write for an audience outside of Manhattan dwellers.