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Summary: please, massah... no mo'
Review: Sappy, cliched, tedious, manipulative drivel. It even manages to be racist, too. I mean, come on! An uneducated, illiterate black man who submissively refers to Tom Hanks as "boss"? This we do not need. Later, we are treated to a sequence where he is watching his first "flicker show", and he refers to Frad Astaire and some white gal, and in a white dress yet, as "angels up in heaven". Feh.Steven King is a hack of a writer, anyway. He dispenses the cliches and contrivences like a... like a... well, I can't think of a way to finish that without resorting to cliche myself. This is one of the worst movies I have ever seen. At over three hours, it is utterly self-indulgent and unbearable. This movie made my list.
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Summary: Give me a break!
Review: Dull, corny, sappy, predictable .... Where have you ever seen such lovely death row inmates before! Don't kill him - he's just a mass murderer and he has a pet mouse! Hah! And what's with all the urine in this film ... some kind of weird fixation going on.
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Summary: Wow
Review: This was probably one of the best movies I have seen in a while, with the exception of Gladiator. It was the perfect combination of mystery, suspense, comedy, and drama. It's a "funny tear-jerker" as I put it. It is a great movie to watch unfold. Let's just say that by the end of the movie my eyes were glued to the t.v. with tears falling out of them and a smile on my face. Also, the book is good to read. Personally, I think it is a little better than the movie just because you get such a description of everything and you get more background.
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Summary: The Green Mile
Review: This is one of the best movie that I have seen so far. The movie pulls the audiences in to feel and have a taste of the life of inmates on death row. The essential part is that, their feelings and emotion while being put on the fine line between live and death. The most touching part of the movie is how prison guards have to stick to their duty while executing an innocent man despite they know he didn't do the crime. Of course, the supernatural power of the big guy does give the audiences a pleasant shock and reflected how kind and little he is despite of his enormous size. All in all, it is one hell of a movie. You won't believe how good it is when it sucks you into the scene. It is just amazing.
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Summary: Unbearable
Review: Well-acted, nicely shot, and at moments quite moving, 'The Green Mile' is ultimately undone by its staggering 188 minute running time. Such languorous pacing adds nothing to the film - except fuel the audience's irritation with an unforgivably predictable plot and some pretty heavy-handed moralizing. Darabont tries his best to wring some significance out of King's story, but the material ultimately proves too slight: this tale could have been capably told in 100 minutes or, better yet, deployed as a vignette in a prison film such as Darabont's vastly superior 'The Shawshank Redemption'. Dragging it over three hours stretches the material too thinly, and in the end leaves a potentially deep story looking rather shallow. This is a good lesson in filmmaking: you can have a fine director, a savvy cinematographer, a marvellous score, an excellent cast, and $60 million to play with - but if you don't have a decent screenplay, then you might as well stay home. Just ask Kevin Costner.
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Summary: A masterpiece
Review: Very few movies live up to the word "masterpiece," The green mile does more , it surpasses the term MASTERPIECE, it surpasses the expectation of most of those who chose to watch. The green mile is a movie destined to join the archives as a classic, a movie to watch over and over. Best movie I've watched in many a year. Great story line, great cast.
Beverly J Scott author of Righteous Revenge
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Summary: i love this
Review: ok so it did not deserve best picture. it was still excellent. it has great performances in it. particulary the guy who never was very famous michael jeter or whatever his name is. i love the visuals. i cried at the end.micael clarke duncan is great.
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Summary: Doesn't meet expectations
Review: Anyone expecting a replay of Darabont's masterful interpretation of Stephen King's 'The Shawshank Redemption' would definitely be disappointed here. Quite frankly, this is much more a Hollywood movie than Darabont's last. The movie, also based on a Stephen King story, will test your patience with its length and although good in its own way, it never truly inspires. Set in the Great Depression the story has Michael Clarke Duncan as a man sent to The Green Mile (the green walkway that leads to the electric chair) for the murders of two little girls. Prison warden Hanks quickly discovers however, that things aren't what they seem when the soft-spoken prisoner heals him of an infection. There's a lot to say in this movie's favour. As usual Hanks's good guy is never less than satisfactory, and Michael Clarke Duncan manages to bring a sense of emotion to his role. Most impressive however are the electric chair scenes, which are shocking just as much as they are compelling. Quite simply there has never been a more graphic movie against the death penalty. There's also a nice little subplot with a malicious prison guard that likes to take out his own inadequacies on the prisoners. Still, there is a definite tendancy to sentimentalise and the theme of friendship and human worth is always pushed that little bit too far. In addition, there are several elements, such as a cutesy pet mouse, that were completely unnecesary to the story's flow and the conclusion is hurried and overly tearful. However, that isn't to say that it's a bad movie. Far from it, there's a lot of worth here, but it's just as conventional as every other Hollywood prison movie.
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Summary: Worth far more than just five stars
Review: Let me say up front that I am anything but an uncritical fan of Stephen King. I thought "It" was duff, both in print and on film. I wouldn't bother to watch "Cujo" if you paid me. Both "The Stand" and "Salem's Lot", on the other hand, were a real pleasure, IMO. By the same token, I found "The Shawshank Redemption", the first collaboration between director Frank Darabont and writer Stephen King totally unmemorable. "The Green Mile", on the other hand, is pure cinematic gold (or platinum, maybe?)! Firstly because of the brilliant acting.
Secondly for the great story line which somehow manages to be both down-to-earth and mythical, all at the same time. Tom Hanks gives an outstandingly understated performance. Hanks uses his typically laid-back approach to make his role as the senior guard on Death Row in a 1930s southern prison totally credible. Likewise David Morse, who has given so many satisfying performances over the years, is wholly convincing as Brutus "Brutal" Howell, but by implication rather than by resorting to overtly aggressive behaviour. Sam Rockwell, as William "Wild Bill" Wharton, plays his part as a total scumbag so well that you *may* spot the significance of his character well in advance of the punchline. No worries, the high quality of the directing will make sure that it won't spoil the storyline even if you do. Doug Hutchison, as the governor's totally despicable nephew, also makes a good job of an unpromising character, not least because he resists the temptation to try to redeem his character by showing some tiny spark of humanity. In this respect, Doug's acting is, in a way, the best on the set. Michael Jeter also deserves an honourable mention for his portrayal of Eduard Delacroix, the kind of social inadequate who so easily ends up up spending his life in prison when a little careful guidance during his early years *might* have kept him safely on the straight and narrow. Despite being a loser, and admittedly with considerable support from Mr Jingles (a mouse) Jeter invests the role with a suitable amount of genuine character rather than letting him become feeble, tacky or maudlin. I haven't mentioned the film's co-star, Michael Clarke Duncan (playing John Coffey), because I didn't really feel that he brought the same intensity to his role as the actors I've named so far. Sure he was lovable and so on, but when you're made to look that big (in reality, Duncan is only an inch or so taller than David Morse), with such a plum role and such amazing supporting SFX it's hard not to succeed. Duncan is, IMO, workmanlike, entirely satisfactory, but not outstanding. As to the storyline, this is one of the occasions that King didn't get to work on the screenplay, and with all due respect I think that benefits the film. It would have been all too easy for the story to topple over into pure schmaltzy mush, something that Frank Darabont, directing from his own screenplay, never allows to happen. King's personal form of spirituality seems to be pretty unorthodox, and even though some [people] see John Coffey as a parallel to Jesus Christ (John Coffey = JC = Jesus Christ) this is a tenuous association at best and maybe best ignored in order to get the most entertainment from the story. So, never less than above average, and mainly way up with the best, this is definitely one worth watching - and again, and again. Enjoy! I'm sure you will.
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Summary: Great Movie
Review: This is probably the greatest non-violent oriented movie I've ever seen. I never thought a movie that played on my emotions so much would acutally appeal to me as much as it did. Even though it is based in a death role setting, you actually feel for the characters, although you never really know what they have done. You have to witness each one of them death a sad death with Percy just adding to the tension with his heartless motions towards the prisoners. It is a must see, you might even want to kids to see it, just cover anything that needs to be when those less favorable sceens come on, but them seem very few and far between.
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