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This was a lot better than Pay It Forward, especially the ending


That was another movie Starring Haley Joel Osment, a year prior. I think that movie deserves a lot more hate, just for its insulting ending, alone. The ending to this movie was "bittersweet" done right and the complete opposite of what Pay It Forward was trying to do. Instead of some generic bullies, we actually have a 2,000 year timeskip and it was written way better and the tragedy comes off more genuine, this time. We still have the grief of "death", but it was done way better. I don't know what the fuck PIF was trying to accomplish, but it failed miserably and it just comes of as downright "tastless" and one of the worst ways to kill off a main character, let alone a goddamn child.

I really liked Haley Joel Osment as a child actor. The thing that makes this special, especially for me is that I'm pretty much the same exact age as him. He was born just 4 days before me. I loved him in The Sixth Sense as the mentally disturbed child who is ridiculed by his peers for believing in ghosts and he's still awesome as Sora from Kingdom Hearts, even as an adult. I would love to meet him!

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