Changing Lanes

[Guest Dmann2000]

I just watched Changing Lanes. It's a really good film, showing just how far you can let things go if you don't stop to think about what you're doing. Oh and seriously if some of you still think Affleck can't act, watch this film with an open mind.

[Guest ISportsFan]

Oh and seriously if some of you still think Affleck can't act, watch this film with an open mind.

Watch Daredevil too, he really finds a role that he can grow into methinks.

 

Jason

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

This was the film that made me change my mind about Affleck's acting abilities.

[Guest Downhome]

This was the film that made me change my mind about Affleck's acting abilities.

Same here, I was just blown away by not only the film, but his performance.

[Guest HollywoodSpikeJenkins]

Oh and seriously if some of you still think Affleck can't act, watch this film with an open mind.

Watch Daredevil too, he really finds a role that he can grow into methinks.

 

Jason

I found him boring in DareDevil.

 

 

The only stand outs in that movie were Collin and Jennifer.

[Guest Downhome]

Oh and seriously if some of you still think Affleck can't act, watch this film with an open mind.

Watch Daredevil too, he really finds a role that he can grow into methinks.

 

Jason

I found him boring in DareDevil.

 

 

The only stand outs in that movie were Collin and Jennifer.

I thought he played the blind lawyer role much more convincingly than that of THE Daredevil.

[Guest El Satanico]

Maybe he's like Val Kilmer...

 

If he is really into the movie, then he's good. However if it's a movie he's just doing for a paycheck, then he mails in his performances, which results in poor performances.

 

From Tombstone...to The Saint; From The Doors...to Red Planet.

 

 

Affleck has mainly done "paycheck movies" in his career so maybe he actually has talent, which has been hidden for much of his career.

[Guest Dmann2000]

Watch his parking garage scene in "Dogma". That's the best work he's ever done.

[Guest The Tino Standard]

Changing Lanes was pretty good, but I thought the ending was a little too neat and tidy.

[Guest Johnson1620]

Loved the movie and thought Affleck and Jackson both did great jobs. That movie was probably the most overlooked of 2002.

[moral suasion 0]

I didn't like the ending of Changing Lanes. To me, it seemed like a cop out. They had the chance to make a bold statement, and pussed out.

[Guest Lethargic]

I agree with the ending. I hated that ending. It made such great promises for the rest of the movie only to have the nice little happy Hollywood ending slapped on at the end. If Jackson had pulled a gun out and blew away Afleck at the end of that movie, I'd agree with everybody. Best movie of the year. One of my favorites. But right now it's just an empty promise. A movie that was made to seem like it said something but in reality said nothing.

[Guest MDH257]

What would it have been saying if Jackson had blown Affleck away?

 

Why did the ending contradict what had been happening before?

 

I thought the movie was about two guys forced to rexamine the lives they've led. And that the wreck was, in an ironc way, the best thing that could have happened to them.

 

Great Movie

[Guest TheZsaszHorsemen]

Affleck is good in Sum of All Fears as well...

 

 

I found this to be like Cape Fear, but if Cape Fear had two Nick Noltes and no Robert DeNiro.

 

 

That said, I liked it; I liked it a whole lot.

[Your Paragon of Virtue 0]

Personally, I didn't really like Sum of All Fears, as I thought it was just Affleck running around for about two hours with his cell phone, give or take. Daredevil was a huge letdown as well.

 

That said, Changing Lanes was alright, but nowhere near as good as the reviews that it had received.

[Guest TheZsaszHorsemen]

Personally, I didn't really like Sum of All Fears, as I thought it was just Affleck running around for about two hours with his cell phone, give or take. Daredevil was a huge letdown as well.

 

That said, Changing Lanes was alright, but nowhere near as good as the reviews that it had received.

Could you back up your views with something a bit more... specific as to why you didn't like those movies?

[Guest Dmann2000]

I agree with the ending. I hated that ending. It made such great promises for the rest of the movie only to have the nice little happy Hollywood ending slapped on at the end. If Jackson had pulled a gun out and blew away Afleck at the end of that movie, I'd agree with everybody. Best movie of the year. One of my favorites. But right now it's just an empty promise. A movie that was made to seem like it said something but in reality said nothing.

Why does everyone think a film has to have a dark depressing ending?

[Guest El Satanico]

Well, I love depressing endings and would like to see movies use them more often. With that being said, I had no problem with the ending of Changing Lanes as it fit with the morale of the story if you weeeil.

[Guest Burning Hammer]

I love Shakesperian tragedies and movies from that ilk but in Changing Lanes you have a movie where the ending fit. Two men who managed to turn some part of their life around with each others help. The ending was actually refreshing since the predictable thing to do would have been for one of the characters to kill the other. It was nice to watch a movie where a death didn't move the plot along.

[Guest Dmann2000]

I love Shakesperian tragedies and movies from that ilk but in Changing Lanes you have a movie where the ending fit. Two men who managed to turn some part of their life around with each others help. The ending was actually refreshing since the predictable thing to do would have been for one of the characters to kill the other. It was nice to watch a movie where a death didn't move the plot along.

See, that's how I feel too.

 

The other one that burns me, and I know a lot of you are gonna jump here, is people who complain that Minority Report should've ended with A) Anderton killing Crow and Crow really being the kidnapper B) Anderton staying locked up or C) Lamaar killing Anderton at the end.

 

The ending that's in the film works fine I feel and doesn't cheat or cop-out. The only disagreement I saw that I agree with was a comment made by Moriarty at AICN, he said the film originally was to end with a credit that said Over the next year 125 murders were committed in the D.C. area. That would've been kinda cool, it'd make you still ask if maybe Pre-crime wasn't so bad.

 

But the more I watch Minority Report the more I love it, it's a lot like L.A. Confidential. That had a 'good ending' (well as good as it can have) and I never hear people complain about it.

[Guest El Satanico]

Minority Report would've been alot better if it ended on a downer.

 

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Anderton making a big heroic return is my main problem with it. If they did a "happy ending" that didn't have Anderton making the heroic return, I wouldn't have had a problem with it.