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21 January 2016
Greeting my friends. I've rated this movie with an 8. It wasn't a big production, it wasn't fancy, it wasn't based on a biography (at last!), it was based on real life events something that unfortunately many of us have experienced in our own families. Great acting. Greatly approached. Good sense of humor, at the right place at the right time. Cancer is a taboo word, we are afraid to say it we are afraid to think about it and we surely do not know how to cope with it. In my opinion the film industry doesn't appreciate enough good movies like that particular one in fear of upsetting people. As far as Toni Collette is concerned she was great, one of the best female performances of her career and I believe she should have been considered for a nomination for the Oscar awards.

She and Drew Barrymore made a perfect match. Haven't seen something like that since Terms Of Endearment with Debra Winger.
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Disappointing
21 January 2016
Warning: Spoilers
Greetings my friends. First of all I've rated 6 just for Kurt Russel. I have been a fan and follower of QT ever since I can remember, no need to mention the movies… I have been waiting this particular one with great hope. After been informed about the cast, the plot and of course the trailer. Thought it will be his masterpiece. In addition, in one of his interviews QT had stated that ALL of his followers would be amazed of his brilliance. Anyway, what the freaking hell was that. Unfortunately, all my depression sessions went down the drain (yeah he did that). After listening the first minutes of the dialogue inside the wagon I started thinking how many are they going to get inside. I started worrying if there are going to be 8 of them. But then I realized that there is no room for 8 people in the wagon. The torture continued inside the cabin with the door. (You have to kick it. KICK IT). After this happening over and over again I took my first anxiety pill. And then we had: dialogue for no reason, blood for no reason the N word for no reason. We had a poor grandpa sitting in a rocking chair verbally abused and Samuel L. Jackson talking about his little Johnny for no reason. Papers been exchanged all the time about the identity of everyone over and over again. The magnificent dialogue about the letter of Lincoln. It feels like that QT saw a dream and he thought about filming it, being totally incoherent. To conclude, the only thing I felt like doing is to taste the Mini's stew. Was it that good? Please someone make a parody out of it, I smell money. At some point I felt like he was mocking me. He wasn't the QT I knew. Ps this is my first review. He made me write a REVIEW. And from what you have read above for no good reasons.
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