August Rush Movie Review Message Board and Comments

Have you seen the movie that I did? It could have been so much better. I saw subtexting from actors and the beginning of character development that should have been foundations instead of finished screen products. The seduction scene..........felt it was forced. Why did she take his hand? I didn't feel that there was enough motiviation for that. The kiss was a typical Hollywood kiss but I felt there was not enough action to precede the kiss as to where it would have made sense. The first music writing scene...........Where did he learn to make the sixteenth notes and put the stems in the right place. The information from his friend was just basic notes and not even any other notes other than whole notes. He learned all of the other material at Julliard. I understand prodigy and I was okay with that but the music writing did not work for me The last scene...............She has not seen him for eleven years and counting and she looked at him as if she had just left a dinner date with him and they went to the park. Where was the realism in their meeting after a decade? There was nothing on their face to make me believe that they had been apart for more than five minutes. She hadn't ever seen her son and I watched her eyes and facial expression and it didn't register this was the first time she had ever seen him. I can buy the listening through the wires and the sensing of each other's presence but it didn't flow for me. The dad's confession.................It looked like he was in the bed and read lines. What was wrong with him, what was his malady, never saw it or felt it. Understood Meyers angst for a performing musician but never really understood why Lyla was so torn. There wasn't enough for me to feel sorry for her or connect to her as a musician controlled by dad. Could have been a real tear jerker along the lines of the Champ. They really missed the essence of what they could have had and it could have been a classic.