Liked it, didn't think it was too bad for having Keanu Reaves (however you spell his name) in it
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anyone ever see The Way Back with steve carrell and toni collette? i watched it last week. not a good movie, but those coming of age ones with the awkward kid always is a little entertaining to me. this one was weird though. carrell as a dick just didn't feel right. didn't buy it. and the movie supposedly takes place in the present day yet it looks, feels, and sounds like it was right smack in the middle of 1986. they drive an old station wagon with the wood looking shit on the sides (the kid sits in the "way back"), all the other cars are old too, nobody has a cell phone, and the water park where the kid works is a total 80's looking place. and the music was all from the 80's. there's one scene where this kid...supposedly a 12-ish year old (so born right 2000) is listening (with ear buds, on his ipod) and singing along to reo fucking speedwagon--and another girl, of a similiar age, hears him and recognizes the song.
it took me about about half the movie to figure out this was taking place in 2010 and not 25 years earlier. i think it's the only reason i kept on watching it.
anyone ever see The Way Back with steve carrell and toni collette? i watched it last week. not a good movie, but those coming of age ones with the awkward kid always is a little entertaining to me. this one was weird though. carrell as a dick just didn't feel right. didn't buy it. and the movie supposedly takes place in the present day yet it looks, feels, and sounds like it was right smack in the middle of 1986. they drive an old station wagon with the wood looking shit on the sides (the kid sits in the "way back"), all the other cars are old too, nobody has a cell phone, and the water park where the kid works is a total 80's looking place. and the music was all from the 80's. there's one scene where this kid...supposedly a 12-ish year old (so born right 2000) is listening (with ear buds, on his ipod) and singing along to reo fucking speedwagon--and another girl, of a similiar age, hears him and recognizes the song.
it took me about about half the movie to figure out this was taking place in 2010 and not 25 years earlier. i think it's the only reason i kept on watching it.
Originally, the filmmakers wanted to set it in the eighties, but they didn't have the budget for it. They still gave it an eighties feel, though.
As for Steve Carell, he played a dick for seven years on "The Office."
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there's one scene where this kid...supposedly a 12-ish year old (so born right 2000) is listening (with ear buds, on his ipod) and singing along to reo fucking speedwagon--and another girl, of a similiar age, hears him and recognizes the song.
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I havent see it yet but based on your post now I have to watch it. The scene you recount cracked me up. Was it that shitty 'I Cant Fight This Feeling Anymore" song?
anyone ever see The Way Back with steve carrell and toni collette? i watched it last week. not a good movie, but those coming of age ones with the awkward kid always is a little entertaining to me. this one was weird though. carrell as a dick just didn't feel right. didn't buy it. and the movie supposedly takes place in the present day yet it looks, feels, and sounds like it was right smack in the middle of 1986. they drive an old station wagon with the wood looking shit on the sides (the kid sits in the "way back"), all the other cars are old too, nobody has a cell phone, and the water park where the kid works is a total 80's looking place. and the music was all from the 80's. there's one scene where this kid...supposedly a 12-ish year old (so born right 2000) is listening (with ear buds, on his ipod) and singing along to reo fucking speedwagon--and another girl, of a similiar age, hears him and recognizes the song.
it took me about about half the movie to figure out this was taking place in 2010 and not 25 years earlier. i think it's the only reason i kept on watching it.
We watched it as a family with our kids, 10 & 12, and really liked it. It's a feel good story.
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anyone ever see The Way Back with steve carrell and toni collette? i watched it last week. not a good movie, but those coming of age ones with the awkward kid always is a little entertaining to me. this one was weird though. carrell as a dick just didn't feel right. didn't buy it. and the movie supposedly takes place in the present day yet it looks, feels, and sounds like it was right smack in the middle of 1986. they drive an old station wagon with the wood looking shit on the sides (the kid sits in the "way back"), all the other cars are old too, nobody has a cell phone, and the water park where the kid works is a total 80's looking place. and the music was all from the 80's. there's one scene where this kid...supposedly a 12-ish year old (so born right 2000) is listening (with ear buds, on his ipod) and singing along to reo fucking speedwagon--and another girl, of a similiar age, hears him and recognizes the song.
it took me about about half the movie to figure out this was taking place in 2010 and not 25 years earlier. i think it's the only reason i kept on watching it.
Originally, the filmmakers wanted to set it in the eighties, but they didn't have the budget for it. They still gave it an eighties feel, though.
As for Steve Carell, he played a dick for seven years on "The Office."
he wasn't really a dick on the office. more awkward than anything else
weak effort by the filmmakers then. i mean it was a good story but either set it in the 80's or set it in the present day. it just felt like some weird combination of the two.
Just watched Now You See Me last night, omg, that movie was so awful! It was stupid and unrealistic and I like magic...but this was way too over the top...
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Watched The Perfect Storm last night (the ending) and then I watched the whole thing today. I've seen it before and I read the book before seeing it the first time. It always fills me with such mixed emotions; Junger is 2 for 2 (in my book, no pun intended) with this film and Restrepo (book & film).
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anyone ever see The Way Back with steve carrell and toni collette? i watched it last week. not a good movie, but those coming of age ones with the awkward kid always is a little entertaining to me. this one was weird though. carrell as a dick just didn't feel right. didn't buy it. and the movie supposedly takes place in the present day yet it looks, feels, and sounds like it was right smack in the middle of 1986. they drive an old station wagon with the wood looking shit on the sides (the kid sits in the "way back"), all the other cars are old too, nobody has a cell phone, and the water park where the kid works is a total 80's looking place. and the music was all from the 80's. there's one scene where this kid...supposedly a 12-ish year old (so born right 2000) is listening (with ear buds, on his ipod) and singing along to reo fucking speedwagon--and another girl, of a similiar age, hears him and recognizes the song.
it took me about about half the movie to figure out this was taking place in 2010 and not 25 years earlier. i think it's the only reason i kept on watching it.
So it is Saturday night at Midnight....scrolling through on demand to see what is free to check out after watching the Kings game and I remembered this thread. So I watched The Way Way Back. I didnt think it was awful -- especially because my anticipation level was so low after your review. Good actors....and some stuff was kind of funny. (But I probably was laughing at things that were unintentionally funny & not where the writer was hoping to get laughs) I know I can be a pig but the part that made me chuckle was putting myself in that kid's shoes. If I were 14 or however old he was supposed to be I would have been walking around with my hand down my pants. (Pretty much did at that age w/o all of the 20 year old actresses pretending to be 15-16 years old) I was kind of hoping Sam Rockwell would punch Steve Carrell out at the end. It was meant to be a feel good story but it made me want to stomp Carrell's character. The REO Speedwagon part was pretty amusing, damn I hate that song.
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anyone ever see The Way Back with steve carrell and toni collette? i watched it last week. not a good movie, but those coming of age ones with the awkward kid always is a little entertaining to me. this one was weird though. carrell as a dick just didn't feel right. didn't buy it. and the movie supposedly takes place in the present day yet it looks, feels, and sounds like it was right smack in the middle of 1986. they drive an old station wagon with the wood looking shit on the sides (the kid sits in the "way back"), all the other cars are old too, nobody has a cell phone, and the water park where the kid works is a total 80's looking place. and the music was all from the 80's. there's one scene where this kid...supposedly a 12-ish year old (so born right 2000) is listening (with ear buds, on his ipod) and singing along to reo fucking speedwagon--and another girl, of a similiar age, hears him and recognizes the song.
it took me about about half the movie to figure out this was taking place in 2010 and not 25 years earlier. i think it's the only reason i kept on watching it.
The beach and house scenes were filmed here in the town where I live (Carrell has a house here, usually spends about a month here in the summer). That's the beach I go to. The water park is actually in a town about 25 miles south of here by the cape Cod Canal, so the kid couldn't ride his bike there. The actual water park is pretty dated, so the joke about the owner never wanting it to age was appropriate.
I enjoyed the movie, especially the employees of Water Whiz. Carell playing a douche was definitely odd. In The Office he was a loveable douche, here he was just a douche.
It becomes apparent 5 minutes in that its set in modern time, The opening scene in the car had me wondering also, but then when they reach town you see newer cars and Carrell explains the station wagon was his father's that they used to take there every summer and he had it restored to cherry. They do have cell phones, remember when the neighbor girl is standing outside holding her iphone saying she is waiting for her dad to call back.
anyone ever see The Way Back with steve carrell and toni collette? i watched it last week. not a good movie, but those coming of age ones with the awkward kid always is a little entertaining to me. this one was weird though. carrell as a dick just didn't feel right. didn't buy it. and the movie supposedly takes place in the present day yet it looks, feels, and sounds like it was right smack in the middle of 1986. they drive an old station wagon with the wood looking shit on the sides (the kid sits in the "way back"), all the other cars are old too, nobody has a cell phone, and the water park where the kid works is a total 80's looking place. and the music was all from the 80's. there's one scene where this kid...supposedly a 12-ish year old (so born right 2000) is listening (with ear buds, on his ipod) and singing along to reo fucking speedwagon--and another girl, of a similiar age, hears him and recognizes the song.
it took me about about half the movie to figure out this was taking place in 2010 and not 25 years earlier. i think it's the only reason i kept on watching it.
Originally, the filmmakers wanted to set it in the eighties, but they didn't have the budget for it. They still gave it an eighties feel, though.
As for Steve Carell, he played a dick for seven years on "The Office."
he wasn't really a dick on the office. more awkward than anything else
weak effort by the filmmakers then. i mean it was a good story but either set it in the 80's or set it in the present day. it just felt like some weird combination of the two.
fmitb---yeah i think it was that song.
See I think the title had a double meaning. The place Duncan sits in the car, and the fact that the parents when they go to the beach for the summer are stuck in the past reliving (trying at least) their youth, drinking, smoking pot, staying up all night, largely ignoring their kids etc. and of course the fact that the water park is a relic stuck in the past.
Even the REO Speedwagon song, Duncan when he gets busted singing along by the neighbor says "My mom put it on there". I think basically the parents are kind of stuck in "The Way Way Back" figuratively as much as the kid is stuck there literally in the car.
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Liked it, didn't think it was too bad for having Keanu Reaves (however you spell his name) in it
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Whose idea was it for the word "Lisp" to have an "S" in it?
it took me about about half the movie to figure out this was taking place in 2010 and not 25 years earlier. i think it's the only reason i kept on watching it.
As for Steve Carell, he played a dick for seven years on "The Office."
I havent see it yet but based on your post now I have to watch it. The scene you recount cracked me up. Was it that shitty 'I Cant Fight This Feeling Anymore" song?
Total chick flick, but it was a testosterone tactic which buys me more time with the NBA finals this weekend.
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weak effort by the filmmakers then. i mean it was a good story but either set it in the 80's or set it in the present day. it just felt like some weird combination of the two.
fmitb---yeah i think it was that song.
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So it is Saturday night at Midnight....scrolling through on demand to see what is free to check out after watching the Kings game and I remembered this thread.
So I watched The Way Way Back.
I didnt think it was awful -- especially because my anticipation level was so low after your review.
Good actors....and some stuff was kind of funny. (But I probably was laughing at things that were unintentionally funny & not where the writer was hoping to get laughs)
I know I can be a pig but the part that made me chuckle was putting myself in that kid's shoes. If I were 14 or however old he was supposed to be I would have been walking around with my hand down my pants. (Pretty much did at that age w/o all of the 20 year old actresses pretending to be 15-16 years old)
I was kind of hoping Sam Rockwell would punch Steve Carrell out at the end.
It was meant to be a feel good story but it made me want to stomp Carrell's character.
The REO Speedwagon part was pretty amusing, damn I hate that song.
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I thought it was much better than the first one.
I enjoyed the movie, especially the employees of Water Whiz. Carell playing a douche was definitely odd. In The Office he was a loveable douche, here he was just a douche.
It becomes apparent 5 minutes in that its set in modern time, The opening scene in the car had me wondering also, but then when they reach town you see newer cars and Carrell explains the station wagon was his father's that they used to take there every summer and he had it restored to cherry. They do have cell phones, remember when the neighbor girl is standing outside holding her iphone saying she is waiting for her dad to call back.
Even the REO Speedwagon song, Duncan when he gets busted singing along by the neighbor says "My mom put it on there". I think basically the parents are kind of stuck in "The Way Way Back" figuratively as much as the kid is stuck there literally in the car.
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