Well, I'm a woman and I loved it!

Rating: Null/10 (19 September 2011)

I read recently that this movie didn't do well because women didn't go to see it. Ummm, when did women become the barometers for all things great and small? Just askin'. Anyway, I'm a woman, although one admittedly with a soft spot for Nick Nolte, and I really liked this film--much better than the similar 'The Fighter' which most people seemed to think so great. My only quibbles were that I didn't quite buy Joel Edgerton physically as a fighting machine and that the Tommy character would have been able to go AWOL so easily. That being said, I liked the way the movie stayed on point, the way it showed ever character's motivation and most of all, the way it brought in the everyday realities of You Tube, the Iraq War, and underwater mortgages to move its story along in a satisfying manner. One of my favorite scenes was when Edgerton is talking to his 'friendly banker' who can't remember his sick daughter's name. "So many stories", he sighs.