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Summary: SUperb
Review: It was easily the best movie I have ever seen
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Summary: My Bladder's about to explode!
Review: Yeah, real smart. Make a three hour movie about a guy with a bladder infection. All I thought about the whole time was how bad I had to pee, and I knew the giant black man sitting behind me wasn't going to reach over and gentle touch my bladder. Open his mouth and let out my busting intestinal wall. No way. And the most horrible thing? This movie is so ingrossing, there wasn't one moment when I wanted to get up and leave for fear of missing what was on the screen. Is Tom Hanks looking a little fat, or is that me? I'm thinking he's not going to look so good in that Batgirl outift either. I guess maybe he's been eating all of Alley McBeal's commisary left overs.
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Summary: A touching movie that pulls the heart strings.......
Review: I've never read the book that this movie emanated from but you don't really need too. This movie was beautifully done in almost every way imaginable. The cast was well picked (Tom Hanks is incredible), the story itself is quite deep and very moving and it definitely makes you ponder humanity, justice and the human spirit. Miracles just seem to happen to occur in the right place at the right time the way the Creator wanted it instead of being so prevalent that mankind ends up thinking that they are a common event. It was wonderful to experience the Miracles in which Michael Clark Duncan brought about in this movie and how he touched the lives of everyone working on death row in the movie. The movie has a dark side too that makes you look inside yourself and makes you look closely at your own thoughts and emotions. All in all, this movie was extremely well done from start to finish and the movie ending, emotionally, will grab you completely and not let you go.This DVD version has terrific sound and the picture is absolutely incredible. If you enjoyed the Shawshank Redemption, you are going to go head over heels for this movie. Enjoy.
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Summary: The best movie ever
Review: The Green Mile is the best movie in the world. The cast was great. Tom Hanks is the best actor that ever graced the Big Screen. The storyline is the most heartwarming storyline i have ever seen in a movie. this movie deserved more than 5 stars but, if i was to rate it honestly it would get at leat 10 stars. If you don't have it, GET IT!
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Summary: Gets Increasingly Ridiculous
Review: THE GREEN MILE (1999) * * 1/2 This movie has the best money can buy: great character actors in most roles, wonderful sets, excellent photography, and is never boring despite it's 3 hour length. That said, it's a shame that in its third hour the movie just keeps getting increasingly ridiculous to the point that I really can't recommend it. Oscar nomination for best picture was a joke, as was the one Michael Clark Duncan as the giant, childlike black death row inmate. His performance consists of contorting his face into a grimace and letting his eyes well up with tears.
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Summary: Green Miles
Review: I saw this moving in the cinema, I was amazed then, wonderful acting and excellent story. The three hours sped by. I would recommend this movie to anyone, there is laughter, there are tears. It is definitely a MUST SEE MOVIE.
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Summary: A stunning movie
Review: I was fully expecting this movie to compare unfavourably with the magnificent Shawshank Redemption. I was also expecting that at three hours the film would be a little tedious. Finally I was expecting a mediocre movie: after all death row is death row, what sort of movie could you make out of that? Well, all my prejudgments were shattered. This is an absolutely stunning movie: it is WONDERFUL! I did not notice the time, I saw all humanity in its brilliance and failure played out in one part of a prison and I believe that this movie is actually better than Shawshank redemption. It is great the way that the storytellers actions click into place by the end. The sting in the tail (or is is tale) stops this from being your everyday miracle movie and the emotion elicited through wonderfully underplayed acting defied my expectations. This movie will fully engage you and unless you like sleeping on a wet pillow, you are best watching this during the day. Tom Hanks plays Paul Edgecombe the chief officer in the execution block of a prison: execution by electric chair. He is plagued by a painful urinary infection. He is excellently supported by David Morse and Barry Pepper playing his officers. Between them, you could not want for better company. Along comes Percy Wetmore (played so well by Doug Hutchinson), a sadistic well connected officer who upsets the calm manner of the other officers and causes one of the most horrific situations you could imagine. A new inmate arrives in the shape of giant John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan) - due to be executed for the rape and murder of two children. All of these people together with a French criminal 'Del' and a psychotic murderer 'Wild Bill' create a microcosm against which several miracles are played out, perhaps the greatest of which is the resurrection of Mr Jingles, the performing circus-mouse. This is a wonderful story, sad, funny, just like real life. And in every life there should be a John Coffey. I urge you to suspend disbelief and watch this movie. I hope it ranks as highly with you as it has with me.
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Summary: NICE PERIOD FANTASY MOVIE
Review: The period, American Depression Era is very well done from the point of costumes and set. All actors did an excelleent job, Hanks as the compassionate death row guard Paul Edgecomb was good but not great; the giant black prisoner John Coffey, played by Michael Duncan was a great performance. The movie is very long ... because it needs the liesurely pace to create the mood. Oh, and let's not forget the co-starring mouse, Mr. Bo-Jangles. How did they get a mouse to do all that? I'd like to see how they wrote his contract. The film understandably follows Stephen King's novel rather closely. However, the story line is implausible: in the Depression Era, Southern United States an inarticulate black man run down by a vigilante white posse with vengence in its heart would not have simply handed the suspected rapist-murder over for trial. They would have lynched him on the spot. But then King wouldn't have had a story and we wouldn't have had a movie. Therefore, I found the God-given gifts of John Coffey's curing people's ills a lot more plausible then his having been allowed by the posse to live long enough to stand trial. But be that as it may, the bad guys were REALLY bad and the good guys were saintly, and so the fantasy worked nicely from that point of view. The electric chair scenes were realistic enough to make an anti-capital punishment activist out of the hardest hearted "string-'em-up" viewer. Those were tough scenes. But they sure did work. Overall, it is a five star movie even though I had a couple of reservations.
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Summary: If not buy - rent... you will not be sorry.
Review: I may not be as eloquent as those who have reviewed this movie already, however I will say this to those of you who have not seen this movie... "What are you waiting for ! " If I could turn back the hands of time to watch this again for the first time I would. The most I will say about this movie is that I feel that it was an honor to be able to view such a movie. I thank God that I can hear, see, and feel this movie. I will be tightening the belt next payday so that I may purchase this wonderful masterpiece. I am not one to watch who directs something, or who produces something, or even who writes something, however I would like to thank these three men for creating such a wonderful movie.
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Summary: could not ameliorate
Review: Of all the movies and DVDs I've seen, which is a great deal, this is defiantly one of the best. However it only really reaches you in a special way if you have read the book, as like most other movies. That is why I firmly believe in reading the book before watching the film. It will always hit you in a different way if you do. The Green Mile is one that would be awesome even if you don't read the book, it's just that good. From the story line to the characters, everything was perfect, which makes for a perfect movie. All of the people in the book were portrayed very well in the movie, but I thought that Billy the Kid could have been a bit better. The book made him sound like a big, tall, muscular guy, where as in the movie he was short and thin. Oh well. Nothings perfect, but of all the things in the world, The Green Mile is the closest.
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