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Summary: ABSOLUTELY HERENDOUS
Review: I watched the first five minutes of it and cried. Iam telling you now if your a Damian Lewis fan Do Not watch this film. He has like 6 short lines then dies. It was a waste of my money to see my favorite actor die with 6 lines...
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Summary: waste of time
Review: I'm still trying to figure out how they got away with calling this movie "robinson crusoe". It has few similarities to the book. If you enjoyed the book, do not watch this movie. It just made me angry.
I'm usually not one to be like "oh the book is way better than the movie", but in this case the movie leaves out massive detail and makes up things that never even happened in the book. Here is an example:
Book-- Crusoe on island for 28 years
Movie-- 6 years.
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Summary: waste of time
Review: I'm still trying to figure out how they got away with calling this movie "robinson crusoe". It has few similarities to the book. If you enjoyed the book, do not watch this movie. It just made me angry.
I'm usually not one to be like "oh the book is way better than the movie", but in this case the movie leaves out massive detail and makes up things that never even happened in the book. Here is an example:
Book-- Crusoe on island for 28 years
Movie-- 6 years.
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Summary: This is the worst "based on the novel" movie I've ever seen
Review: If you are looking at this movie hoping for a recreation of a classic and wonderful novel brought onto the screen, you will be sorely disappointed. In fact, I would go as far as to say angry. By the end of the movie I even caught myself wondering if there was a DIFFERENT Robinson Crusoe that perhaps I haven't heard about. The names are the same, but the characters are no more similar to the originals than the Mona Lisa and a potato chip. Through my first viewing I was very angry at the heresy, but to be fair I tried also to give it an objective viewing. The movie on it's own merits seemed to be decent, but as one can only naturally draw the similarity between it and Castaway, it falls short again. One of the elements Castaway succeeded in brilliantly was it giving the viewer a feeling of the loneliness the character would be feeling. No artificial lighting, no soundtrack, just a skeleton camera crew and an actor. And it worked. Brosnan jogs through the trees with his dog (who oddly enough always looks as clean as a show dog) with a supposedly emotion evoking melody playing in the background. If you want to see a good movie, don't see this one.
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Summary: Robinson Crusoe
Review: Much better than Castaway. Is about friendship, love and survival insticts.
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Summary: Once was enough
Review: The movie, "Robinson Crusoe" seems to be centered wholly on the notion that human race is not fit to be alive at all. It throws prejudices in ones face, without dealing with them. Flies corruption like a banner without the balance of integrity, and altogether butchers Daniel Defoe's account of Robinson Crusoe's escapades. Through gunfight and anger, harsh words and mixed-up sequences this film ambles. Leaving the viewer with the impression that all good things come to an end, but the bad remain forever. It is this sort of movie that makes a person grateful to the movie rentals. One viewing was enough for me!
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Summary: What a rotten movie!
Review: The plot of Daniel Dafoe's classic has been made so politically correct in this movie that it is downright BORING...if Dafoe had written his book this way originally, it never would have become a classic. Ugh!
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Summary: Defoe would spin in his grave
Review: This film, although sporting many elaborate Hollywood props full of explosions and tribal wars, has taken a potentially exciting and meaningful screenplay and altered many key components of Defoe's original novel to incorporate a mushy love story (taking away from the feel of Defoe's original). Many dramatic and important scenes I hoped would be in the movie were either altered beyond recognition or missing altogether, and the "politically correct" additions are a final blow to this sinking ship. This film is about as true to the novel as the 1970 animated version with talking animals.
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Summary: Great! Really Liked it.
Review: What can I say? I liked this movie. This is the story of Robinson Crusoe, a shipwrecked Scottish noble. (Okay, I admit it, I read the original book, but I've completely forgotten most of it, it was a little over 15 years ago). I found this book to be quite nice, even without the literary comparison. Brosnan plays a character well entrenched in the ways of his time. He is in self-imposed exile, traveling from place to place, until misfortune in the form of a shipwreck leaves him abandoned on a deserted island with only a dog for companionship. Eventually befriending a native, (Friday) Crusoe learns crucial lessons on what it means to be a human being, and alters his perceptions on slavery and the human condition. Overall, despite a few peccadilloes (Brosnan's Scottish accent was sometimes a little 'slurred') I quite enjoyed this movie. I recommend it for anyone who likes Pierce and can overlook the fact that it doesn't follow the book to the letter.
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