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  Beginner | Cute film, though it switches character arcs and tones too often to get completely invested | Jan 22, 2019 | ||
 Beginner | (Possible Spoilers)Last night I watched Wonder staring Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson, and Jacob Tremblay as the "wonder" August Pullman. The movie is based on the NY Times best seller Wonder by Raquel Jaramillo.After seeing previews several times, I was eager to check this one out. Wonder is basically about a boy who was born with a birth defect, who has undergone countless surgeries to correct the defect. Upon entering 5th grade, Auggie's family makes the decision to no longer homeschool him and enter him into a private conventional school.I really truly wanted to love this movie, and to be honest, I kind of feel like an asshole for not loving it, but The movie wasn't all that interesting and really didn't go anywhere.He went to school. He was bullied. He made friends. The end.The most enjoyable thing about this movie was all of the star wars that was peppered throughout the film. Chewbacca the Wookie made several appearances and there was tons of star wars memorabilia all over. Julia Roberts gave a likable performance as did Owen Wilson. My favorite character was August's older sister, Olivia played by Izabela Vidovic. She really did an excellent job portraying a teen girl who was often shadowed by her brother's illnesses, surgeries, and general existence.There were a couple weird things. The family dog died and aside from Auggie saying that every time he came home from the hospital the dog was there, it really had absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the movie and pretty much just took up time. I didn't understand why we were being shown the dog dying when the dog had very little to do with the story.At the big climax where Auggie is thrust into a situation where a handful of kids who had previously bullied him had to come to his rescue, one of the kids who he was already friends with hit his head on a rock. We were shown that he hit his head on the rock and he told Auggie that he was bleeding, then there was nothing else about it. I don't understand why we were shown him hitting his head on the rock if there were no consequences. He survived, he didn't need stitches, he didn't have a concussion, and he seemed to be perfectly fine. There wasn't any reason for us to be shown that he hit his head on a rock and there was no reason for him to tell Auggie that he was bleeding. I thought something was going to happen, but then nothing happened and all the kids went back to the camp and home to their parents.I truly wanted to love this movie but it was lackluster. Nothing really interesting happened. | Jan 22, 2019 | ||
 Beginner | Nice movie | Jan 22, 2019 |
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