I guess "feel good" is worth an extra 6 points

Rating: 2/10 (24 March 2006)

And in a way that's OK. But really, 27% of people give this a 10?? Come on, if this is a 10, then what is Forrest Gump, a 20? Please, somebody who voted 10 tell me how this is a better movie than Forrest Gump. Please.
The acting is great, esp A. Finney & J. Lange, as is Tim Burton's cinematography & the power-of-positive-thinking philosophy feels good. The idea that a son would dislike his father and not talk to him for 3 years just because he tells tall tales gets the whole thing off on a very bad foot, from which it never really recovers.
But really, to vote a 10 for a movie that espouses the way to leave a legacy is to make stuff up, you would have to not only have voted for Bush & Cheney, you would have to believe their stuff.
I won't bother explaining the story. The 10 voters do that much better.