Sock it to me!
Added 1/11/2010
This is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. Seriously - ever. None of the characters are believable. The portrayal of Boulder, Colorado was highly exaggerated and glorified. The acting is horrible. If you like garbage, afternoon, TV-quality movies with horribly fake and ridiculous sex scenes, this is for you. This is like the "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" without the sisterhood, the traveling, and certainly without the pants.
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Riveting motion picture.
Added 1/2/2010
Catch & Release is one of my very favorite movies. It reveals many levels of grief in several different people- lovers, close friends, business partners, parents, mystery people that I won't reveal- and links very different people through the death of one man. I do not find this film to be depressing- it is entirely too lighthearted! I've had several people be put off this movie by 2 things: they know it involves grief, so they think it must be terribly depressing. It isn't. It's true and lifelike and these characters are fully occupied. They learn and grow in very amusing and remarkable ways. The second thing that can be off-putting is the presence of Kevin Smith. Do not underestimate him! His character is very amiable and real, nothing like I've ever seen him do before.
Also, the scenery is spectacular. Just the images of nature in Colorado are magnificent- rivers, woods, shorelines... it's breathtaking. And this movie is not all about fishing. It's an important theme, and it's here and there, but you won't be stuck in a fishing boat during the entire film. Not at all! I think Catch & Release is a great adventure and it is entirely unique. Please give it a chance! It's very cool.
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How bad can it get?
Added 12/21/2009
I have wasted my time with some really baaaad movies, but this movie made me want to go out and buy a Van Dame or Seagal movie to foget this one. Hell the funeral was the is best part of this movie. This was so bad that I even hated the sound track. I hated the sound track because it was part of this movie and not because it was bad. This starts nowhere and goes downhill from there and very slowly at that. I wanted to shoot that s.o.b. of a kid, especially when he jumped up and down on the fish. I am going to stop now because I am getting mad all over again just thinking about this movie.
Before I stop there was one moment of really bad taste in this movie that was a very low pont for me. It was when the mother of the dead man asks for the engagement ring back.
This is truly a time waster of a movie.
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Great Elements, Ruined by Lousy Cliché
Added 11/8/2009
This movie could have been so much better. I have no problem with the actors(I have a thing for Jennifer Garner, and I really like Kevin Smith, so I can't give an impartial evaluation of the actors.) or their characters. The photography was gorgeous.
UNFORTUNATELY I GOT MY HOPES UP.
Unfortunately, right after a good enough setup, the writer plops in an element that are so tired and hackneyed and obvious I immediately said to myself "oh no, they're not going to do THAT..." If you have seen more than a handful of films that do not star explosions or CGI, you not only see the ending coming, IT CAN BEE SEEN FROM SPACE. It completely stinks and ruined the film for me. The fact it happens in a bathroom is especially fitting.
I would like to think it is the kind of thing that would immediately lower your grade in a scriptwriting class.
What makes it all the worse is that there are couple of times during the film (predictably, right when I was about to turn it off) where it misleads you into thinking they are going to go somewhere more creative.
But no, they go there.
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Fall in love with the characters, Fall in love with the storyline, Fall in love again.
Added 8/19/2009
A woman's plans change abruptly when her fiance dies, and she starts to find things out about the guy, and starts to wonder if she even knew him at all.
She starts to dig further into the loops and tangles of his death with things she doesn't fully understand, and she begins an awkward but sweet friendship and love with her fiance's best friend she never liked, as he helps sort out the mess left behind.
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Sock it to me!
Added 1/11/2010
This is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. Seriously - ever. None of the characters are believable. The portrayal of Boulder, Colorado was highly exaggerated and glorified. The acting is horrible. If you like garbage, afternoon, TV-quality movies with horribly fake and ridiculous sex scenes, this is for you. This is like the "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" without the sisterhood, the traveling, and certainly without the pants.
1 out of 1 people found this helpful.
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Riveting motion picture.
Added 1/2/2010
Catch & Release is one of my very favorite movies. It reveals many levels of grief in several different people- lovers, close friends, business partners, parents, mystery people that I won't reveal- and links very different people through the death of one man. I do not find this film to be depressing- it is entirely too lighthearted! I've had several people be put off this movie by 2 things: they know it involves grief, so they think it must be terribly depressing. It isn't. It's true and lifelike and these characters are fully occupied. They learn and grow in very amusing and remarkable ways. The second thing that can be off-putting is the presence of Kevin Smith. Do not underestimate him! His character is very amiable and real, nothing like I've ever seen him do before.
Also, the scenery is spectacular. Just the images of nature in Colorado are magnificent- rivers, woods, shorelines... it's breathtaking. And this movie is not all about fishing. It's an important theme, and it's here and there, but you won't be stuck in a fishing boat during the entire film. Not at all! I think Catch & Release is a great adventure and it is entirely unique. Please give it a chance! It's very cool.
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How bad can it get?
Added 12/21/2009
I have wasted my time with some really baaaad movies, but this movie made me want to go out and buy a Van Dame or Seagal movie to foget this one. Hell the funeral was the is best part of this movie. This was so bad that I even hated the sound track. I hated the sound track because it was part of this movie and not because it was bad. This starts nowhere and goes downhill from there and very slowly at that. I wanted to shoot that s.o.b. of a kid, especially when he jumped up and down on the fish. I am going to stop now because I am getting mad all over again just thinking about this movie.
Before I stop there was one moment of really bad taste in this movie that was a very low pont for me. It was when the mother of the dead man asks for the engagement ring back.
This is truly a time waster of a movie.
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