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Silver Linings Playbook is a horrific piece of shit that should have been pumped full of in sulfuric acid In Utero.
In real life the paranoid delusional would be horrified and possibly violent at his family for executing strange conspiracy against him, and nobody should have gotten an Oscar.
Having been one who has gone through a bit of a mental illness phase (manic depression. fun while it lasted) not unlike what Bradley Cooper's character went through (less violence, more paranoia), I enjoyed the film as an accurate depiction of the day-by-day steps one goes through on that first recovery after the initial breakdown.
His idea of having this (unrealistic) goal of 'everything with my ex-wife will be fine if I can just do this' is a very real thing. The arguments with his seemingly overbearing parents who take every action of his to be a sign of regression were very familiar and Chris Tucker's character? I totally knew that guy.
What isn't real is the encounters with the unbelievably hot (yet equally troubled) girl who does everything she can to involve herself in his life. That just plain didn't happen.
Also, the relapse. You don't just get cured because you do a dance routine. That stuff takes years to fully cope with, with added time for each following occurrence, but whatever, it's a movie. The dance is healthy though, having routine in one's life, regular exercise and diet, familiar places and friends is very important for clearing one's head and getting your feet back on the ground. I didn't have a dance routine, I had lightsaber duels. 
I just wish my feet could've landed somewhere a little closer to Jennifer Lawrence's...
Anyway, the cast still gave great performances and I support Lawrence taking home the Oscar for it.
I'm likely giving up too much here..but it's out there to find elsewhere so...
I have grappled with manic depression for probably over two decades, and spun out so bad at one point that I went inpatient for a short period of time...and I find the film gives pretty dangerous advice.
One person recovering from a spin out dating another person recovering from a spin out is going to almost always result in two simultaneous and much more dangerous spin outs. The main character being surrounded by his basically insane and subtly, but persistently, abusive family would only compound the problem. Even his therapist is fairly dangerous, and the film doesn't really dive into any of the steps a person would really have to take to pull their life together after a psychological break so intense that it lead to physical violence and involuntary commitment.
The message seems to be that the cure to serious mental illness is to surround yourself with superstitious lunatics, cave into their psychosis, and then get into a dance off with an equally insane person (who he has no business dating, and was manipulated into dating) to cure mental illness...which is offensively oversimplified to.me, as it sets up the main character to have a child with his equally crazy lover before either of them have fixed their issues, and perpetuate the cycle.
(It also avoids looking to deep at the issue that my generation is seemingly abnormally full of 30 somethings crippled by mental illness to the point of moving back in with their parents...but obviously that is beyond the movies scope. )
I'd love to read some early drafts of this thing to see how it became this...thing...it seems more like a madlib than a movie to me.
I hate this movie more than Dorkman hates Good Will Hunting. and would gladly sit on the couch and dice it to fucking pieces if the opportunity presented.
(The exercise is good advice, I will give it that.)
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Dorkman hates Good Will Hunting?!
It's not his fault.
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I prefer to think of Good Will Hunting as an elaborate prequel that chronicles Dr. Erik Selvig's stint as an award-winning mathematician before he migrated to the Marvel universe and started monkeying with that damn tesseract.
We need to have a WAYDM on that movie posthaste, then, because now I'm desperate to know how someone with such good taste can hate such an amazing film.
No movie is so amazing that it can't annoy the fuck out of at least someone.
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This is true.
Ah, that's William Goldman's view, and why he rejects rumors that he did a polish on the script (he never would've allowed that scene). Perhaps I was quoting him and it seemed like I was expressing my own opinion. The movie didn't make enough of an impression for me to bother forming one, honestly.
Haha, depends on the image you use I guess.
Ok, done. I'll take the Pepsi Popcorn Challenge with The Princess Bride. I haven't seen it in more than 20 years, mind, and maybe I was just in a bad mood, but it seems like anything less than total adoration will make it appropriate for this thread.
I'll get back to you by the end of the day.
I felt the same way, but I saw Matrix in late '03, so I'v had time and numerous viewing since then to set things straight in my head.
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