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Isn't it funny (or not so funny) that the vast majority of people, either out of naivete or willful ignorance, missed the fact that Doug MacRay skipped town for Florida without Claire for the following reasons: (A) Doug was on the lam from the law for quite awhile, and he had no choice but to hurry away without Claire, because he went back to Charlestown, killed Rusty and Fergie (The Town's crime bosses). (B) Doug had gotten what he really and truly wanted out of Claire all along; a promise from her not to turn him in, which he got. (C) At some level, Doug knew that sooner or later, he'd be hunted down and caught (perhaps violently) by the Feds and either tried and sent to prison for his crimes (as Doug should've been), or perhaps gunned down by the law, and that Claire would end up in the line of fire. Oh, and here's another part of the message that The Town conveys to me that I don't like; That it's okay to engage in an act of vigilantism, take the law into one's own hands, and either permanently cripple or kill people just because they either threw bottles at, or threatened his girlfriend. |
06/27/2012
4:11 pm CT
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To each their own, LeeAnn M., but I sympathized with FBI Agt. Frawley and the other law enforcement people who were in hot pursuit of Doug MacRay and his men and were determined to have them spend long, hard time in a Federal penitentiary for their crimes. I have no sympathy for Claire, either, for being an accessory to Doug's crimes by refusing to sever contacts with him even after learning who he really was, and for tipping Doug off to the Feds' presence in her house with a "sunny days" code, thus enabling Doug to elude the law. Imho, Claire should've either been criminally prosecuted herself, or at least put on some sort of probation for abetting Doug and saving his butt. |
06/27/2012
5:22 pm CT
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Ben Affleck did a great job directing Gone Baby Gone, but his brother, Casey, is a much better, more talented actor. As for The Town, imho, it's predictable and unbelievable to me. The idea of an educated woman who makes a decent salary as a bank manager, and lives in a gentrified part of Charlestown falling in love with an armed robber, thug and murderer who's also on the lam from the law, simply doesn't sit well with me. I don't buy it. |
06/27/2012
5:31 pm CT
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Since I'm from the Boston area, I've always enjoyed seeing movies that're about Boston, so I was looking forward to seeing The Town. Unfortunately, it is, imo, a very hyped-up, cheap, overrated piece of trash that's more like a feature-length soap opera than a regular movie. It's too predictable and unbelievable, and the cast, imo, was poor to mediocre at Best. Ben Affleck is very overrated as an actor. I liked the beginning of The Town, with the aerial and ground shots of Boston's Charlestown section, as well as the opening bank heist, but The Town went from being okay to being just plain awful...in a matter of minutes. |
06/27/2012
6:34 pm CT
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The Doug-Claire romance scenes, which were tepid at best, helped ruin The Town for me, as did the phony ending. |
06/27/2012
6:35 pm CT
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"I have no sympathy for Claire, either, for being an accessory to Doug's crimes by refusing to sever contacts with him even after learning who he really was, and for tipping Doug off to the Feds' presence in her house with a "sunny days" code, thus enabling Doug to elude the law."
Doug saw everything that was going on in that room before she made the sunny days remarke. He did not elude the law because of it, but because of the tip-off, Doug felt better knowing that Claire was on his side, thus he donated some of his funds to her in return. I don't think he would have left her that money if she just simply said, "Sure, Doug. Come on over because I am all alone here."
Anyway, the movie was just fiction for entertainment. I enjoyed the movie as such and tried not to overanalyze each character's reaction as real world actions.
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06/27/2012
7:45 pm CT
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I also might add, LeeAnn M., that Doug MacRay wasn't the nice guy that he came across, either, even to Claire. He was playing her the whole time, and he put the romance moves on her for one real reason; to get Claire to shut up and not talk to the Feds. What the Feds should've done is made Claire keep her big, fat trap shut, not answer any of Doug's phone calls, let alone phone him, and allowed Frawley and the feds to do the job they were assigned to do; Bring Doug macRay and his guys to trial and to prison for their crimes. I have no sympathy for either Doug or Claire, because they don't deserved any. The fact that Doug deceived Claire by pretending to be an upstanding, law-abiding citizen when he was really a professional armed robber, thug and murderer (as it turned out later) is more than just disgusting; it's part of his criminal behavior, which was vicious. The fact that Claire acted liked a poor, confused, dumb-assed adolescent and rose to Doug's bait was pathetic, but the fact that she took his side even after learning the truth about him, especially since he caused her tons of grief if the first place, imho, doesn't make Claire a sympathetic character. |
06/27/2012
11:35 pm CT
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Well, LeeAnn M. I feel much differently than you do about The Town. I sympathize with FBI Agt. Frawley and his men who were out to catch Doug and his men. I was rooting for the Feds the whole time, because I really wanted Doug MacRay and his men caught and thrown in jail, and Claire to be criminally prosecuted herself or put on probation for lying to the Feds and siding with an armed and dangerous felon. |
06/27/2012
11:39 pm CT
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i thought it was a great movie. |
06/29/2012
6:28 am CT
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I feel that The Town had the potential for being really good (although not necessarily great) movie, but it fell woefully short of that, due to a mostly poor to mediocre cast (Jeremy Renner was the only really convincing performer in The Town), overdone shootouts and car-crashes that nobody could've realistically lived through, plus the car chases through Boston's North End were also unrealistic, because the North End is too densely populated, too congested, and the streets way too narrow for a getaway to be realistically possible. I thought that the beginning of The Town, with the aerial and ground shots of Charlestown, as well as the opening bank heist, was kind of cool, but The Town just seemed to fall apart and go downhill, for me, in a matter of minutes. The soundtrack was also quite tinny and cheap-sounding, and I found the Doug/Claire romance scenes out of place...and rather nauseating, to boot. They seemed very much out of place, like they really didn't belong in the story at all. Had much less time been devoted to the Doug/Claire romances and more on the heists, and/or a different cast been put in, The Town would've been more believable. I have to admit to one thing; I found myself rolling my eyes to the ceiling every time the Doug/Claire romance was on. The ending in the theatrical version was also quite paltry. As I did point out, I would've liked to see both Doug and Claire suffer some sort of real consequence for their actions and behaviors. Krista, the drugged-out, alcoholic sister of the psychotic "Jem", was no angel, but neither was Claire, as it turned out. |
06/29/2012
9:07 am CT
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