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This is available on Netflix now. I watched it last night, and enjoyed it.

Very well-acted, especially by the little neighbor lady. Tom Hanks is outstanding as usual. And it's a pretty touching story. It's a "comedy-drama", and while it's not laugh-out-loud funny, it's humorously charming in spots.


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Originally posted by gw3971:
They shoe horned in the Transgender virtue signaling minute.


Luckily, it's just one scene. So if you can bring yourself to get over that scene (involving Otto reluctantly allowing the paper delivery kid to crash on his couch after they tell him their Dad kicked them out of the house for being trans), it's an enjoyable film.

If it helps, it balances out the obligatory "wokeness" of that one scene with several scenes demonstrating how the "real men" of previous generations are superior to the useless wimpy hipster men of the modern generation.

So in terms of overall wokeness, it's a wash, and therefore not anywhere near overtly woke.

There's even an appearance by a pretty sweet shorter-barreled coach gun.



Kind of my take on it too (wife and I watched it the other night).

There was the "trans" person (let's be frank about it, there is a delusional person in it who wants to be accepted as delusional) which when taken by itself, can be considered delusional wokeness but in the context of Hanks' character, it seemed appropriate..

But.... on a whole, some great acting by Hanks and his neighbor across the street and, your house/room may get slightly dusty and cause some eye irritation at the end of the movie. Wink

BTW - my wife made the outrageous claim near the very beginning of the movie that it was about me. Not sure what she meant by that. Big Grin






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Remake of "A Man Called Ove". A recent movie from Sweden.


The original Swedish movie was excellent! I suggest you watch it versus the new (and UN-improved) Hollywood version.


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Watched on airplane. Was pleased with the mystery of Otto’s pain. Was disturbed by Otto’s response to pain. In the end things made sense. So, a decent movie.


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rogueJSK describes the film well. My wife and I watched it two nights ago and both enjoyed it very much, her more than me probably because I had read the book and she hadn't. The trans character is very minor and kind of annoying for its woke nod but in the book, published in 2012, the character was gay so not really that much of a drift. Its a very small part of the story and doesn't detract much from what is otherwise a pretty good movie.
 
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Outside of the pathetic woke trans sex part it was OK.
Sort of a bendable documentary.
 
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Outside of the pathetic woke trans sex part it was OK.
Sort of a bendable documentary.


My thoughts exactly.

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OK at best, a little over the top with the curmudgeoning. I had trouble getting past how often Hanks ended up looking like RFK Jr. in many scenes. Not a deal breaker buy kinda spooky.




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It was a decent watch as little is coming out. Very cheesy at times, and very predictable. But when viewed for what it is, some streaming movie, you could do worse. Expected more however.



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Predictable, woke, and probably one of Tom Hank's worst choices to get involved in. He's a good enough actor, but I didn't find his character particularly interesting or compelling. I'm glad I didn't have to pay to view this.


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Watch the original it is better.
 
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We watched it last night - agree with above - they just had to throw a “transgender” scene in, even including the word “transgender”.

Besides that 60 seconds of my life I can’t get back and the fact I was totally annoyed, I otherwise liked the movie - not really what I was expecting.

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It's Pablam for the masses, enough drama to put a soft-edge on the story but, easy to watch. My geriatric parents had to tell me all about it over dinner one Sunday.
 
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Grumpy Old Men is way better than this.
 
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I watched the Ove (Swedish) version and like it. Haven't watched the Otto one.


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It's no longer on our "to watch" list.



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I did feel the story telling in Ove was better. Hanks does ok but yeah.

They didn't screw it up, so there is that. I found it odd that they never show his wife in a wheel chair in the Hanks version.



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I hit pause the second time they had to bring transgender wokeism into the story, I don't think I will finish the movie. Hollywood's moral of the story, we should all open our homes and allow a transgender teen to sleep on our couch.




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I finally got around to watching this last night. I enjoyed it, but I also agree with some of the complaints here...but not enough to turn it off. I thought the acting was good as well as the story line.

ETA: I saw that the guy who played Tommy....neighbor across the street is the Lincoln Lawyer.




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