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Originally Posted by Frazod
War of the Roses says hi. I saw it in the theater with a date. The guys cheered on Michael Douglas; the girls cheered on Kathleen Turner. Couples starting fighting before it ended, and were going at it on the way out of the theater. I had the first (of many) arguments with that particular girlfriend that night. What a shitshow. I actually thought going in that it was a sequel to Romancing the Stone because it had Douglas, Turner and Danny DeVito in it. Oops. Had I known what it was actually about I would have never gone to see it. The poster should have a warning label on it - DO NOT WATCH THIS MOVIE WITH A DATE.
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War of the Roses WAS a shitshow, but everyone I watched it with, male and female, hated it.
It wasn't ineffective in what it did. It was professionally written and acted. But it somehow went too far. I like black comedy, but WotR was like black death speed metal comedy. Maybe it's a testiment to the writing and acting, but it was TOO affecting. You left the theater feeling like you actually watched a married couple hate each other to death.