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Summary: Expected too much.
Review: Tried to watch it twice, couldn't finish. Good production values I suppose, but best picture? Hardly. Spielberg was robbed.
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Summary: graceful
Review: Just a fabliau. But in our times, we need sometimes to go beyond the reality, beyond the history. I liked the film. It's a film that aims at charming, not at convincing.
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Summary: Best Picture?? What a hoot!
Review: Saving Private Ryan was robbed! This movie scores points for some of the acting and an elaborate set design....but that's about it. I have seen much more enjoyable movies this year...and yes, SPR was one of them. Although I am not a Gwyneth Paltrow fan, her acting was better than usual. The best part of the film was watching the fine acting by the handsome Joseph Fiennes. Is it just me, or did anyone else notice how much he looked like a white version of "The Artist Formaly Known As"....just a thought. I have to say that I thought Ben Affleck looked to be terribly miscast. I dunno...he just looked too "90's" to me. Whether you seriously enjoy this movie or not I think, mostly depends on how interesting you find that era, and Shakespeare himself. I found it to be a bit hum drum and although a good movie, not Best Picture material.
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Summary: What I saw of it.....
Review: I can't honestly review this movie because I didn't see it all. It was too boring to watch. I rented this movie because I wanted to see what all the hoopla was about at the Oscars. After the first half hour or so of this movie I had to hit the "OFF" button. I cannot understand for the life of me the appeal of G. Paltrow. There are so many better out there. I can see after only a half hour of this movie that Saving Private Ryan was ripped off when it lost the Oscar.
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: The BEST Film of the year!It is an absolute delight when a film this extrordinary is made.Acting,script,costumes,sets,music... all performed and made perfect!Elizabeth was dark and violent,but Shakespeare in Love was light and romantic!Deserved all Academy Awards!Fantastic!
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Summary: In Love With Shakespeare In Love
Review: There are very few films which I can consider truly captivating. This would be one of them. In a movie where words might seem to overshadow the play, the story shines through with such vibrance that it warms the soul of anyone with even the slightest heart for theatre. To compare it with Shakespeare itself would not be such an injustice.
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Summary: A good film hurt somewhat by ineffectual leads
Review: "Shakespeare in Love" is the second of Tom Stoppard's Shakespearean whimsies to hit the screen, after "Rosencranz and Gildenstern are Dead." Like "R & G", "Shakespeare in Love" imagines circumstances that cannot really be inferred from any history or text by Shakespeare himself--this time, the life of Shakespeare rather than his minor characters. While the older film was essentially an elaborate stunt that was amusing and interesting to a certain extent--essentially a stage play trapped on film--this one is highly cinematic, full of eye-candy costumes and recreations of Elizebethan England. The story is resolutely unrealistic, but that's not the point, anyway: The point is the passionate romance between Shakespeare and a fictional heiress who dresses in drag to act in the premier production of what will eventually be "Romeo & Juliet." That romance is very sexy--there may not be two more beautiful people on this planet than Gweneth Paltrow and Joseph Finnes--and earnest, but the best parts of the movie are firmly tongue-in-cheek: Shakespeare's distress at the death of rival Christopher Marlowe, Ben Affleck's performance as a preening prima donna actor (a sly satire of many of his arrogant peers), and best of all, Geoffrey Rush's hysterical performance as a conniving theatre owner whose sole asset is a playwright (Shakespeare) whose name sells tickets like few others. The leads could be better--Paltrow is steady and sexy as Shakespeare's love but there is nothing remarkable about her performance, and Finnes is beautiful but unconvincing as the hard-drinking, hard-loving genius Shakespeare--but they're adequate for this stylistic comedy.
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Summary: it not hard to hate this film
Review: Banal in all aspect, increasying stupid as it goes on, S.I.L is more of an Embarrasment to shakespeare than any kind of respectful showing. The acting is across the board awfull. Paltorw bored me to tears in a no brainer , borad caritured role. A role which was more to show off her"ravish"( more like aneroxic and fake) beauty than any real acting talent. Paltorw ranks in the very bottom of all actors and cant hold a candle of to her british counter parts. THe films dialogue is akward and clunky and complety devoid of wit. There is no romance or intrest to the story at all. And the now the sotry telling, over use of the paning camera, the visual style is uneven. Basicly and awfull film in all respect. THe reason why the film won some many oscars is this $
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Summary: A great love story!
Review: I really enjoyed the characters and story. It was well done. I enjoy these types of stories, the costuming was very beautiful and the sets are just as wonderful. I recommend this story for all. A truely wonderful show!!!
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Summary: Cinematic perfection
Review: Succeeds on every level. A brilliantly told story with arguably one of the most complex and original screenplays ever written. The cast is excellent, from the ravishing Gwyneth Paltrow to the intimidating Judi Dench, who crafts a mini-masterpiece out of her 8-minute performance. The debate between "Saving Private Ryan" and "Shakespeare in Love" will go on forever, but here's my two cents: "Shakespeare in Love" may not be quite as gripping as "Ryan"--for God's sake, you're comparing a romantic comedy with a brutal war film--but it is an excellent film nonetheless. It really depends on whether "Best" means "Most Dramatic" or "Most Riveting" or "Most Ingenious" or "Most Clever." As a final note...a reviewer below stated that Cate Blanchett (who was wonderful in "Elizabeth")deserved the Oscar, and that Gwyneth Paltrow only won the Oscar because "she has Hollywood parents." That is, probably, one of the stupidest things ever placed on this website, but you hardly needed me to tell you that.
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