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Summary: Run.
Review: Ok, this one may take a bit so sit back. Never have I watched amovie that was so designed to make me feel bad for being male. Neverhave I seen a movie that is so adamant at having a main character seek out misery in the face of so much happiness. Never have I seen a movie with such a weak ending. Never have I seen such a lousy video transfer of a new film. Well, the set design was good and a lot of the camera work really did make the movie look like a Toulouse Lautrec print. Second, the way that Malkovich really pulls off the unleashed demon of a husband and the way that Barbara Hershey plays the bitter woman who unleashes the demon only to weep at the horrors she realizes she has released. Third, it had a great theme song that really does a 7.1 system justice. I should have listened to that for the 2.5 hours. The DVD had a really good Dolby Digital 5.1 sound mix, but the picture was so bad I actually took down my projector for a cleaning it didn't need (obviously not 16x9 enhanced). There are no extras. Overall, if you accidently stared at a woman longer than you should have and you need to make penance, or you hate men, be secure in yourself as a well adjusted member of society and go check out Desperado again.
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Summary: garbage
Review: one of the worst movies i've ever seen. long, boring, and tiring. the acting on all counts was terrible and unconvincing and john malkovich can't his way out of a wet paper bag. save your money.
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Summary: Lonnnnnggggg
Review: Overall quite good, but it sure drags on...and on...and on. Some scenes just go on forever, and often it seems like what would have made one good scene was split into about three. I thoroughly enjoyed Nicole Kidman and John Malkovich, but I'm not sure what all the fuss about Barbara Hershey was--she wasn't bad, but I didn't find her exceptional either, she just blended in with the rest of them. Mary-Louise Parker was completely irritating, whereas Martin Donovan, Richard E.Grant, and Viggo Mortensen (whose character kept showing up out of nowhere--very confusing) were usually good, but with a few weak moments. That pretty much summed up the film: potentially great, but too long, too pretentious, and too murky on some fairly essential plot points. Still, the scene where Malkovich makes Kidman fall in love with him is great. Really intense.
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Summary: What Have They Done to My Song Ma?
Review: Spendiferous photography and state-of-the-art talent are throroughly wasted in this pretentious and often head-numbingly unexciting yet tediously overwrought rendition of a challenging novel. Did you like the first sentence of this review? If so, maybe YOU will like this movie. I was eager to see this film from the moment it came out. But this mauling of the James story was so dull that I was barely able to finish watching it. I just kept hoping it would get better. It didn't. Sometimes slow is good. But not in this case. Campion is too interested in creating a directorial aura to care about telling a story in an interesting manner.
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Summary: i very like this movie
Review: the lady is very lovely,her character full of drama,fantasy and treason
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Summary: Beautiful picture
Review: The moive presented beautiful images but the story was slow and somehow not well organzied.
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Summary: Something's just a little off
Review: The moment that I finished reading the James novel, I rushed out to rent a movie adaptation of it. Although the film was visually stunning, I felt that it didn't portray the Isabel, Gilbert, Henrietta, and Madame Merle that I had come to know. I found the book to be satisfyingly depressing, but this movie was just harshly and hurtfully depressing. Also, the finale, haunting as it was, didn't even intimate how Isabel leaves Caspar Goodwood in England and goes back to Rome; it let the viewer believe that she might actually stay with him. Either this was an enormous oversight or I am just missing out on a deeper meaning created by Campion; more likely the latter since no one else has commented on this. Anyway, although it followed closely to the novel, I still found it disappointing.
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Summary: Very Boring!
Review: The movie is beautiful to look at but the story is so boring and weird, doesn't make much sence.
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Summary: Devastating
Review: The movie was heartbreaking. It forces the reexamination of the past and makes one wonder what might have been. The movie ended so abruptly, there was no closure. If you want to be emotionally purged, then watch this movie and cry.
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Summary: what the hell was the point?
Review: The music was good. The music score by Kilar (Bram Stoker's Dracula) was great. The story was boring until the plot thickened when the identity of the real mother of the daughter of John Malkovich's char. was made. The customes were nice and the settings & cinematography was outstanding.
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