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Summary: Really not so bad after all
Review: I'm being a little generous here (really 3 1/2 stars), but critics obviously had it out for Costner on this film, regardless of its merits. I don't consider myself a Costner fan, but this film is perfectly entertaining and I never found it dull. The script is laughable in spots, the acting lukewarm, and the patriotic leanings are definitely "aw shucks" (very Costner!), but overall The Postman succeeds as a perfectly watchable epic. I liked Will Patton's ruthless General Bethlehem a lot -- he succeeds as a loathsome, megalomaniacal villain. This movie is actually better than Waterworld, Costner's other post-apocalyptic film.
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Summary: We rented this for laugh cos we knew how bad it was
Review: This movie is great. Get your mates together, some beer and food, and laugh your socks off for 3 hours. Great for those evenings when there really isn't anything to do. I hope hollywood keep producing more of this complete rubbish with overblown budgets, cheesy acting and corny story lines. But rent, dont ever buy it, its not a classic like Plan 9.
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Summary: Great Entertainment
Review: I don't feel that this movie was a bomb. Sometimes the audience just wants to be entertained with good triumphing over evil. Aside from the message the movie gets across about pulling together for the common good, its wonderful entertainment with elements of action and romance.
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Summary: A costner dud at the box office but great movie for all
Review: I believe this movie may have been a dud at the box office but how many movies really are good ticket sellers at the box office. Have you ever seen a costner film that stinks, well I haven't and I do believe this is a very good movie telling about the future to a point and how people will react to marshall law.
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Summary: Really there is only one thing wrong with this film..
Review: Kevin Costners personality. By the time this movie was made he had come to represent everything that was wrong with Hollywood, smarmy, pretentious, sickeningly self ingraciating. After Waterworld the critics wanted to ruin him and would have trashed it no matter how good it was. And he deserved it. But I don't think that this film really deserves it.Now its not sci fi on the level of Blade Runner, but its no where near as bad as its made out to be. I found it to be quite an enjoyable little peice of post apoclypse melodrama. The patriotism aspect may seem a little silly to some but its not the kind of stomach churing jingoism you find in Independance Day, Red Dawn or Armmeggedon. Its more about broken down people finding something to believe in. Perhaps its a case of expecting garbage on my part and finding something a little better so it seemed great to me. But I liked the movie a lot.
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Summary: Too Long And Too Dull.
Review: "The Postman" is a surprisingly bad movie for Kevin Costner to direct after his 1990 triumph, "Dances With Wolves." I mean, we wait so many years for this talented artist to make another film and this is what we get? It's also surprising that it was written by two of Hollywood's brightest writers, Eric Roth, who recently co-wrote with Michael Mann the absolutely riveting thriller, "The Insider," and Brian Helgeland, who co-wrote the gorgeous noir detective thriller, "L.A. Confidential." "The Postman" has a good heart, but not a good brain. The story is too unbelievable, maybe it's not unbelievable, just uninteresting. There's too much material that seems uneeded, unimportant, like the angle about the woman who has sex with The Postman because her husband is unable to produce offspring. The characters are unconvincing and perpostrous really. So much that the villain has to be supplied lines obviously inspired by "Braveheart" to try and spice up the tension. And when scenes pretend to be inspiring or exciting, they're so perpostrous in that mood that you feel an urge to laugh. Sure the production is well-done, with some great outdoor vistas, and the score is allright, but the screenplay is too...well, dumb seems to mean considering Costner really thought this was a good story that would actually entertain. The big problem here above all is that the film is too long. I love 3 hour movies that are great like "JFK," "Schindler's List" and "Nixon," but those were riveting movies with riveting stories. Here, it's a lame story told with too much confidence and patience. I just wanted the movie to end. If you haven't seen it, be happy that it's out on video, now you can stop it for a while.
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Summary: Force a friend to watch it -- they'll be glad you did!
Review: Do you believe in anything? Would you stand up for something good? This film is about a guy who for very human and self-indulgent reasons unwittingly starts a movement toward the restoration of America's greatest achievements: life & liberty. Will he truly be -- "The Postman"? Would you? (excellent mix of patriotism, drama, action & even romance)
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Summary: Trashed by the Critics
Review: Saw the movie on openning day...I was one of FIVE...count'em FIVE people in the theater! Tell me that had anything to do with the movie itself. Before anyone had even had a chance to see it, the critics had already trashed talked it into oblivion. A real shame for what was actually a really good and inspiring movie. In fact, I actually went back the second weekend to see it at the theater as much in protest to the bad ratings as to see it again. (this time I was joined by only three others)
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Summary: Those with attention deficit disorder need not watch...
Review: I can hardly believe some of the negative reviews I have read on this movie. My first thought is "These people must also REALLY hate Clint Eastwood!" Because it reminds me of many Eastwood movies. I think it's as simple as just realizing that if you don't like Kevin Costner movies, you won't like this one either, but if you do, the chances are you will. I found it to be one of the most inspiring movies I have seen in a very long time. And for note, Larenz Tate's character Ford is what really makes this film work. As long as you aren't expecting an epic masterpiece like Braveheart, you should like this one. I loved it.
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Summary: The Best Worst Movie of All Time
Review: The Postman is a movie so bad that it's good. I spent an entire weekend watching this Costnerian tour de merde, beside myself over how anything this ridiculous could get made. From Costner's opening monologue, talking to his mule, I found myself rewinding the tape, just to verify how ridiculous the script is. After a couple of hours of viewing, and only being about a half an hour into the movie, I decided to watch the whole thing through. About ten times in a row. Some of the classic lines from the movie: You over there --what did you before the war? / Uh, I had a shovel... I dug holes! How did you become the postman? / I could tell you, but I don't know whether you'd laugh or cry. The name of the post-apocalyptic postmaster? Postmaster General Ford Lincoln Mercury. Any viewer with an oddball sense of humor will find this movie more of a comedy than anything else. A classic!
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