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Originally posted by Captain Morgan:

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Originally posted by apprentice:
The scene in the truck after the bar fight when Chris shows his brother the hot chick's number on his hand -- who else was dying to hear "how do you like those apples?"

That would have been awesome!

That was Matt Damon's line, though.

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Originally posted by drabfour:

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Originally posted by jjkroll32:
Listening closely, it seems like there's more autism spectrum coming through in his speech patterns on the trailer than what I remember from the first.

Definitely. We went last night to see it and that’s all I could think about was how his speech changed from the first one.

It was a decent watch for being a sequel and all.

OK so I'm not crazy.

Twenty minutes in I turned to my wife and said "he kinda dialed up the 'tism for this one I think" and she looked at me like my 'tism was showing.

I enjoyed it. Had elements of the first and expanded on them a bit. The characters have changed a bit as they would eight years later.

I didn't have the surprise "oh that's awesome" vibe I got from the first one but it's a sequel after all.

I'll watch the third installment when it comes out.

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Originally posted by Rob Decker:
Twenty minutes in I turned to my wife and said "he kinda dialed up the 'tism for this one I think" and she looked at me like my 'tism was showing.

I enjoyed the movie overall and would go see another sequel, but the inexplicable changes in autism characterizations bothered me.

In the first movie, Christian came off as someone introverted & unsociable. In the second, he acts as if he's channeling Rain Man. The change in his speech pattern alone is disconcerting. There's also a very quick throwaway line about how he didn't need to do self-therapy w/ the loud music & bone-hardening anymore.

In the first, Christian was a sharp dresser. In the second he dresses like 75 y/o midwestern granddad.

I liked that Justine got a lot more screen time; however, the Justine in 2 acts nothing like she does in 1. In the first one, she's heavy on the stimming. In 2, she doesn't display any signs of autism other than being mute.