Pleasantville - New Line Platinum Series

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Summary: I saw it but dont like it.
Review: I actually bought this movie before watching it. BIG MISTAKE! I didnt really enjoy the movie. There was not as much humor in it and it was hard to sit through the whole movie. I would recomend it only if you want to be bored!

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Summary: On my "Top Ten" list of 1998
Review: Gary Ross did a great job directing. The last movie that was directed by him was a movie called BIG, starring Tom Hanks. That was also a great movie. This movie, I feel, was snubbed on OSCAR night. I think that it should have taken ELIZABETH's place as a nominee for BEST PICTURE, BEST ACTOR, BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR, and BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS. I think it should have been nominated for BEST DIRECTOR, ART DIRECTION, and VISUAL EFFECTS. I haven't found very many movies that have touched my like this one did. One of the surprisingly touching scenes was where Bud put Black and White make-up on his mom because she didn't want to go out to her husband in color. Some people might think to themselves, "I don't want to see that movie. It look lame..." Well to those who say that... You don't know what you're missing out on. Some people said it was too long. It was only as long as LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK... I mean behind this ingenious plot is, what it's trying to reflect is how it was in the 50s. I know, I know... Some of you may not care about the 50s. But you don't know what you're missing out on by not seeing this movie.

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Summary: For the person who wrote the essay about this movie......
Review: Get over it!!!!!!! If you can't sit back and watch this movie and truly enjoy it then there is something truly wrong with you. This movie had one point! I direct you to when Bud was showing the Ice Cream shop owner a Art Book. This movie is about looking in our own mundane black and white lifes and finding that thing or things that brings some color. And to the person that gave it one star, quit watching movies.

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Summary: Visually cool
Review: I give this movie 4 stars because the effects were so cool. The story kinda has been done before (Back to the Future) but the effects were neat. Reese, Joan Allen, and W.J.Macy were wonderful as was JT Walsch.

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Summary: A "Pleasant" Surprise
Review: When I saw the preview for this movie, I was sure that it would just be some cutesy little movie where the kids get sucked into the TV show. We have all seen this scenario over and over again. This was only the set-up for what turned into a very moving drama. I saw it in the theaters and bought the DVD the day it was available. And on a side note, I think that it was very unfair to try and compare this movie to The Truman Show. They are both very different movies. But if I had to choose one I'd go with Pleasantville.

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Summary: should've kept it lighter
Review: Though it preached about what was best in the real world, it seemed to give people way to much credit for being balanced enough to juggle the complexities of life when their teenagers. (hence the sentimental idea of teenagers having finished codes of morality)For heavens' sakes, when the kids burst into color, why not make them grow fat? Get full of zits? Suffer from deppression because of not being excepted into high school society because they can't afford to buy the latest fashion? (Or don't want to run the risk of being shot for them) Maybe put one on drugs. But hey, that would be reality!

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Summary: way to preachy.
Review: this was a movie that really should've ended in the first hour. Up to that point it was good, but then sentimentality and really un realistic ideas about what is better in life began creeping in towards the end. Even though it was preaching about the complications in life, and how supposedly so much better they are, it really made the argument seem way to simple. It's not that I didn't appreciate it, but my main problem was how it preached about what was better in real life, but didn't make the charectors EVER seem that real at all. they didn't explore consequences for the charectors actions, as would happen in the real world.

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Summary: Pleasantville is a funny, touching, tale!
Review: Pleasantville is a great movie that is entertaining! When I saw it, I thought it was so good, so I saw it again, and I am now considering buying it!

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Summary: a great movie...worthy of watching
Review: I have heard the good and the bad reviews, and all I can say to people who are saying "not realistic enough" is...remember the opening words? "ONCE UPON A TIME..." For a fairy tale, which is what this movie basically is, it is very good. I enjoyed the special effects, and would recommend this movie.

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Summary: What a great introduction to the world of DVD!
Review: I enjoyed Pleasantville at the theater much more than I expected to...and its release on DVD makes it even better! The movie's story is engaging, entertaining, and thought-provoking (if you can ignore a few logical loopholes...hence the four-star rating instead of five). And then there are the effects...which the Pleasantville DVD spends quite a bit of time explaining, and it's absolutely fascinating (at one point in the featurette that accompanies the movie, we're told that this movie contained some 1,700 digital effects, and took up a total of 7,000 Gigabytes of computer storage space)! This one's worth the price...get Pleasantville on DVD!