How this film is supposed to be an epic romance I will never know. The most romantic thing I saw in the whole film was her black slave refilling her vase with flowers in her African home, while she was in Denmark recovering from the syphilis her husband kindly gave to her. Don't worry though, she only married him for his title so she wasn't too cut up about it.
Stone achieves a kind of demented grandeur--you can't possibly take it seriously[...], but it's geat fun. [Movie] is glumly allegorical and depressingly schematic. Good=black, takes dope. Bad=white, drinks beer.
Even with an editorializing score, telling you where you're supposed to feel something, the movie is numbing and rambling. No amount of shouting Chinese revolutionaries can inject drama into what is hopelessly undramatic and undramatized.
My opinion of this movie was summed up by Hoffman...Kmart sucks...Dustin, so does this movie.
This so called relationship film is Tandy's being ultra-cranky and Freeman shucking and saying, 'Yes'm.' This goes on for decades!!!!
All of the dialog needs to be in English. I do not speak any other language. I watch movies for entertainment. I will not watch movies to have to try to read a bunch of subtitles. I did enjoy some parts of the movie when there were No subtitles.
Jodie Foster is the worst actress I ever seen. Obviously she never had any lessons. She can't act and more worse she doesn't open her mouth while she speaks - a disaster without compare.
This is strictly for guys, and for people who don't believe in God. Everybody is nasty all the time, and the only good people in the movie are prostitutes. And Eastwood as a director is even more annoying than he is as a non-actor in this.
Spielberg's favourite theme: every single Germans pre 1950 was utterly evil and/or calculating and self serving.
The lines that spew forth from the characters' mouths were initially praised as incisive observations about our lives - WHAT!!! They are dopey, uninventive and quite frankly wrong. 'life is like a box of chocolates- you never know what youre gonna get' - yes you do they are pictured on the back of the box.
It has as much in common with thirteenth century Scotland as hobbits and rings have.
However, cinematography does not a brilliant film make, unless it's a National Geographic travelogue. The magnificent Saharan scenery in this ill conceived tale is like putting perfume on a pig.
Leonardo di Caprio's performance as the lovable but down-on-his-luck guy could have been played better and more realistically by Paris Hilton.
Shakespeare didn't have short, spiky hair. Hair like that didn't come around until 1998.
Oh, look at me, I'm an armchair-existentialist. I hate my crummy boring life. I hate my job. I hate my wife. I am such a pathetic loser. Gee, I'm going to lose my job. Oh woe is me! Oh, wait, here's something interesting - a teenage girl! And what's this? Marijuana! Hey great!
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