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Summary: Green Mile
Review: The movie was long and somewhat slow at times, but the characters were well developed and the acting was superb. If you watch this movie with your wife, have plenty of tissues ready for use.
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Summary: THE BOOK TO MOVIE
Review: I thought that even though they did not follow the book exactly they did an excellent job on the movie. I had read the book first and was sure they would ruin the movie but they didn't it was excellent. I try not to read the book first because it always means the movie [stinks]. I.E. (Silence of the Lambs, The Shining, The Sphere) all great books and awful movies.
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Summary: Great Movie
Review: The main complaints about this movie have mostly already been addressed by others. However, most people complained about the running time! This amazes me. I am only 17, and still I wonder where the days went when people sat for hours and hours to get a good story out of a book. I agree that some things could go on too long and detract from movies, but it is not the case in the movie. Every scene is thought out to either add to the depth of the story or to create more pathos with the characters. Would Delacroix's death have been emotional at all if we had not had all the Mr. Jingles backstory scenes? I know I wouldn't have cared. He is nothing but a simple murderer without those scenes. I think that too many people expect a quick story and a snap ending. I enjoy a long movie, and many times I wish that directors had added more scenes to the movies.
Secondly, the complaints about it being cliche. Yes, it might have been in parts, but this should not matter if you get lost in the story. Most people that do not enjoy any given movie have decided that they will not before they even begin to watch it. A little tip for watching movies in the future. Don't look for what is wrong with the movie, just sit back and let it wash over you. So many things are more enjoyable this way.
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Summary: What Happens on the Mile, Stays on the Mile
Review: This was a surprisingly good movie. I had seen "Shawshank Redemption" (SR) and many others like it. I preferred "The Green Mile" (TGM) to most of them, including SR. If you liked "Beaches" or "Silence of the Lambs", give TGM a try.Tom Hanks shines as an actor, as do almost all of the other cast members. What is more impressive is how Hanks works in prison-management skills into the movie. It is a good example to managers in all fields. The movie is long at three hours. However, if it had been cut shorter, it would not have been as effective. This is one of those longer movies that should be three hours (about 90% of the others should be half their length). The movie can easily been seen to the half-way point and picked up later without losing track of the plot.
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Summary: will this movie never end?
Review: This movie starts fine enough and Tom Hanks does his usual fine acting job, but the direction on this film is just awful. The blame goes entirely to director Frank Darabont. His heavy-handed direction of The Shawshank Redemption almost ruined that movie. This time it's completely over the top and does end up ruining this movie. Apparently Darabont thinks it's necessary to use a sledgehammer to get the point across that we are dealing with "a Christ-like figure" here. The movie is at least an hour longer than it needs to be but such is the self-indulgent nature of Darabont. About the only good thing about this movie is that it isn't Darabont's next piece of tripe. "The Majestic" is so horrid a movie that the ghost of Frank Capra must be haunting Darabont to this day.
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Summary: Everyone has an opinion...even me. :)
Review: The acting was WONDERFUL! The storyline was WONDERFUL. However......I think the "special power" scenes RUINED the movie. Those scenes just didn't seem to fit in...poltergeist-like powers in a non-poltergeist movie. I realize this is a Stephen King movie....and those whacko scenes are the scenes that made you KNOW it was a Stephen King movie....but it was just a tad to far out for me! Also, I don't think you can compare this movie to Shawshank Redemption, other than they are both prison movies and both Stephen King...the comparisons stop there..in my humble opinion. :)
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Summary: Best King adaptation made for the big screen
Review: This movie was so enjoyable. It had supernatural themes, good vs. evil, loving characters, and characters you love to hate! Tom Hanks is very good, as he always is. But my favorite character was the gentle John Coffey. His size made him so intimidating, yet he had the gift to heal. The movie is long, but worth every minute. Some of the scenes are a bit graphic, so a younger audience is not appropriate. This movie will bring you lots of tears and a few laughs. Worthy of 5 stars, and worthy of a home collection.
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Summary: No Hanks
Review: Oh, no, another "prison" movie, I thought, so I didn't see this movie for a long time, until a friend recommended it saying "It's not that kind of movie at all." Well, she was right: it isn't, but I don't think it's a great movie. Tom Hanks' performance was enjoyable. All the performances were great - especially Doug Hutchison as Percy Wetmore and Sam Rockwell as William 'Wild Bill' Wharton. And Michael Jeter reprises his brief role of amiable loony in "Patch Adams". The electric chair scenes are truly horrifying and I wouldn't want my kids seeing them.
The movie's weakest point is the flashback that frames it: the movie begins and ends with Paul as an old man telling the events to a friend at the nursing home. This part adds nothing to the movie in my own opinion, and detracts from it by adding to the supernatural aspect to the point of ridiculousness (Paul and the mouse are supposed to have "been infected" by John Coffey's magic powers so that they are both more or less immortal!). I take the point made by another reviewer here about the biblical echoes, but I still think the flashback technique just makes the film drag. My other gripe is with the supernatural scenes in the story: they could have been handled with much more sophistication, imagination and mystery. You can practically see the light bulb in John Coffey's huge hands! Final verdict: worth watching once for the story; rent it, don't buy it.
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Summary: It's long but it's worth it!!!!
Review: Green Mile staring Tom Hanks, is a 5 start movie all the way. It is 3 hours long, but it is to worth the time to watch it. When getting it on DVD is a great thing cause you can see how they made the movie. The movie is based on the novel "Green Mile" by, Steven King. The only problem I found with the movie was its case it came in. It's card board instead of plastic. And its kind hard to get out of the case. But as far as the movie goes its a 2 thumbs up.
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Summary: It would be suitable for a one-time show. That's all.
Review: The movie revolves around the main characters, and doesn't show us more than that.
It has some kind of emptiness, because it goes on very slowly, and is longer than 3 hours.
And in that time we see a lot of unuseful shots, comedy relieves mainly, that makes the viewing long, with a feeling of lonliness for more storylines, more people, and with a feeling that the movie is too empty.
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