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Summary: PERFECT! LEO'S STAR SHINES AS BRIGHT AS THE HEAVENS!
Review: One of the most exhilarating movies I have ever seen. An experience not to be missed. The offbeat soundtrack enhances and intensifies the heart-pounding suspense and Leo's stunning performance. Synopsis: Leo (aka Richard) becomes disillusioned with everyday life and travels to exotic Thailand. Still, he senses that his detachment from normalcy is not complete and, adventurous spirit unsatiated, travels to a distant island, not knowing nor truly caring what danger may await him. His experiences there are entertaining to the viewer as well as eye-opening for Mr. Richard. If movies not in the mainstream are not your thing, don't see this movie. As always, Leo gives us a performance that makes me wonder why he is not an Oscar contender every year.
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Summary: the beach
Review: very good, a little non-socialist propaganda, but good acting and intriguing plot with good action scenes. cinematography a little different
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Summary: A Movie with a Message
Review: As the credits began to roll down the screen I felt like I had just been slapped in the face. I was shocked- but in a good way. Some people might look at this movie and say it is all about sex and violence but how I viewed the movie I saw a definite point and purpose displayed behind the sex and violence. The movie shows the essence of human nature, our selfishness and the way people will sacrafice even a friend or fellow human being so that we will not be bothered and will continue having a good time. Leonardo Dicaprio's proformance as Richard is moving. He captures the essence of a man that in a way we can see inside each of ourselves. I would reccommend this movie for anyone old enough to see it. There is some sex, violence and language some people might find offensive but overall it was incredibly well done and the message came across with power and force.
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Summary: It's just too bad...
Review: The book is great, the soundtrack is amazing. But the movie... it's disapointing. Don't get me wrong, Leo delivered, but the movie is like, "no real adventure". We don't really understand why Richard at one point becomes totally insane, and why certain things happen. It's definitely a movie that will be forget soon. Although the screenplays are great, the views are wonderful. I suggest you to wait until its release in VHS or, you'll probably be like me at the end of the movie, shaking your head and wondering why you paid full price to go see this movie. Leo can't make a movie a great amazing movie just by himself, even though he gave a very good performance. To tell the thruth, the previews and the trailer of the movie, were far more interesting than the movie itself, believe me!
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Summary: Excellent, see it now!
Review: If you do not know whether to see this film or to buy it. No problems, no doubts! See it or Buy it NOW! An absolutely amazing film and with all the ladies heart-throbs- Leo Di Caprio. He fills his part especially well. This film contains everything you could ever want: Horror, Thills, sex, adventure and mystery. All i can say is that this is a quality film well worth seeing.
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Summary: The "Let's Bash Leo" bus has Finally left town.
Review: The Frenzy has finally died down, Leo has made his first "Post-Titanic" film, Critics and Audiences jump on the "Bad Mouth Band-Wagon", the film Sinks at the Box-office, it comes out on DVD, More Mixed Reviews, a few Months pass, ...type in "the beach", loading, loading, AHH, 5 star, 4 stars, 5 stars. The Madness is Finally Over. The Real Reviewers are coming out of the Wood work.I Love this movie, and I'll Defend it, and Leo, as long as there is air in my Lungs. Critic: "It's Muddled and Can't decide what it wants to be". Me: Thats the point, Unrestricted, it's wants to be FREE, the film is about letting go. I love films that try to be Action, Romance, Thrillers. Everyone can Enjoy. Critic: "It starts good, then goes crazy". Me: Again, thats the point. A desent into madness, a downward spiral, a world without laws is doomed to chaos. stuff like that. Remember, when "Apocalypse Now" came out, Critics and Audiences reviewed that for the wrong reasons to, because of the sucess of "the Godfather". If you didn't like the Beach first time around, see it again, give it another chance, a chance it deserves.
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Summary: Nice movie
Review: After I heard the bad reviews I was surprised by the movie. It's actually a good movie. Only a few scenes were strang, but that was ok. I couldn't watch the movie in theater, because I was to young. But I really like that movie and Leo.
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Summary: So Boring
Review: The concept of this film is great-the movie well,-- IT'S BAD!! The problems with this film are many. First of all, we know NOTHING about the main character Richard or WHY he is in Thailand. Yeah, backpacking but by himself? It would of been interesting to see WHAT made him go there? Then once the three stooges find "the beach" it just gets way too confusing. How did "the community" end up there???? And then Richard goes MAD but WHY??? Who would go mad in a beautiful beach like that?? The rest were perfectly fine! I just feel that the characters were too mysterious. In my opinoin it would of been more interesting if only the three of them would find the island on their own instead of using a dumb map left by a crackhead. It would of been more interesting to see more about the Thai culture, after all it was filmed there! It was fast paced, confusing and boring. The only star here are the beaches of Thailand!
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Summary: "Paradise Found - Innocence Lost"
Review: "Trust me, it's paradise. This is where the hungry come to feed. From mine it's a generation that's circles the globe and searches something we haven't tried before. So never refuse an invitation, never resist the unfamiliar, never fail to be polite and never outstay the welcome. Just keep your mind and suck in the experience. And if it hurts, it's probably worth it."
--Richard in "The Beach"
Danny Boyle's electrifying, seductive, adrenaline-laced thriller "The Beach", based on Alex Garland's smash-hit 1998 novel of the same name, is a truly fascinating and exotic film. Though considerably different than the book, meaning that much of Garland's message (think "Heart of Darkness", "The Lord of the Flies", and "Apocalypse Now") is left out here in favor of a more "sexy" storyline, the alterations work on the screen. The audience, unless they've read the book, won't know what they're missing and will take the movie for what it is; an intense, tantalizing thriller starring the perfectly cast (and perfectly gorgeous) Leonardo DiCaprio with a killer soundtrack and breathtaking cinematography.
Though I have read the book and consider it to be amongst my favorites, I appreciated the film for what it was. The themes so prevalent in the book regarding man's descent into insanity through isolation and what one will do to protect their utopia; are hinted at. However, in the end, a much less satisfying explanation is thrown at us, making "The Beach" not nearly as potent or disturbing as the ingenious novel.
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Summary: There is no going back except regressive
Review: A film I had wanted to see for a long time and I hadn't been able to see whEn it came out. I had liked the book, I hadn't liked the scenario, but I find the film is a lot better than the scenario, and yet less strong and powerful than the book, even if you take into account some of the scenes that were cut off, including the ending. This film is a revisiting of The Lord of the Flies, but with adults of both sexes. It is even more pessimistic than The Lord of the Flies. Because there is no real reform possible, when they come back, for these adults that drop out from the world, though not quite completely and with the ever present possibility to go back in their minds. They recreate a society which, in spite of the freedom, of the pleasures, of the enjoyment, is far worse than our normal society. A boss comes up and here it is a woman, and this power structure is that of an absolute dictatorship, and the only element that can save such a situation is that the members oif the community can fly away, escape. These people become, or rather reveal that they are, cruel, vicious even, possessive as for their partners, exacting towards the other members of the community, jealous, easily irritable, cowards in many ways, vain too, and definitely not very dédicated to help their mates and volunteer for a chore. They dream of it as if it were paradise, but it is not. It is some kind of rotting hole in the world where you can only ferment and eventually die, practically alone because you know you are dying because the others are just afraid of losing their enjoyment if they cared enough to really take care of you and take you back where you could get some help. They can let you die of gangrene to avoid awkward questions from a hospital's personnel. Frightening about the deep nature of the human being. Nothing to be proud of. And what's more in such a situation they become even more normative than in real society. You better behave according to the unwritten law of the community, or rather of the boss, if you don't want to be punished or put in situations that are plain torture.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
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