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Dying Young (1991)
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7/08
7/08:
To my no surprise, I hate Dying Young to smithereens, and it's among the corniest, stupidest, and worst
films I've seen.
Yes, I was aware that Joel Schumacher was the director and that Julia Roberts was the main star. On the
surface, it looks like a well-made picture with a heart-warming story and lots of emotions. Yet I refuse to be
suckered into the whole thing because Campbell Scott's character comes across to me as a sick, perverted
individual who used Hilary to satisfy his emotional needs. At the end, he got what he wanted.
Boy, Julia Roberts...if her character was the one who's instead dying young, I would've said, "Good! Let her."
She's incapable of displaying anything that's human through her face. There are only two possible acting
techniques she has in her very tiny repertoire: a sarcastic look and a feigned concern. I wonder who thinks
Julia Roberts is an attractive-looking woman. Please, she's far from it.
All in all, the ever-corny Love Story came first, so why must there exist
another film of the same vein?