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Summary: Abridged Ahab?
Review: I prefer this update to the Gregory Peck version, although I could wish it had been more faithful to the original book. My question is this: the original television special was 4 HOURS LONG. Even allowing for commercial time, there had to have been at least 3 hours of film. Now, the running time of the DVD is 2hrs 25 minutes, and the video is even shorter; What happened to the rest of the material?!
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Summary: HAVE U SEEN THE WHITE WHALE???
Review: i really enjoyed this movie. i think stewart did an excellent job as captain ahab, it was great from begining to end. it had action, humur and all that good stuff. It made me feel like i was actually on board the ship and part of the story. i would tell anyone to buy this who wants a complete dvd collection!peace
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Summary: HAVE U SEEN THE WHITE WHALE???
Review: i really enjoyed this movie. i think stewart did an excellent job as captain ahab, it was great from begining to end. it had action, humur and all that good stuff. It made me feel like i was actually on board the ship and part of the story. i would tell anyone to buy this who wants a complete dvd collection! peace
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Summary: Overall, an excellent movie.
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. Not having read Melville's book, this movie gave me much more of an understanding of Ahab and his tortured soul than the Gregory Peck version. Excellent acting by Stewart and the rest of the cast. My only complaint is with Moby Dick himself - the rubber whale used in the scenes is not very convincing.
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Summary: Round Perditions Flames
Review: I though this was a great film mainly because of the acting, Patrick Stewart, best known as Captain Picard from Star Trek the Next Generation, fits the Character of Ahab perfectly. Though the film looses a star for the quite dodgy special effects, Herman Mellville's story and A cast of great actors lift it up into a classic.
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Summary: awesome
Review: I thought Patrick Stewart did a fantastic job. He showed great feeling towards "The great white whale". I have seen this movie 3 times and I still enjoy watching it. It was much better than I was expecting. I wish this movie had been around years ago when I had to read the book in school, it would have given me a better perspective of it. also it would have made the book easier to read. I loved the movie!
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Summary: A good family movie
Review: I watched this movie with my children after having read them the wishbone version of the story. They were fascinated. The violence is just right for family viewing and my eight year olds found it mesmorizing and intense. I thought it could have been better (the whale wasn't very realistic) but it was fine for a made for TV movie. I found it to be perfect for family viewing.
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Summary: Rent it don't buy it!
Review: If you really want to see this movie, I recommend you rent it don't buy it. It was hard to stay awake to get through the entire movie. The last 40 minutes are practically the only parts worth watching. Patrick Stewart on the other hand played an excellent part as usual. I bought this movie because I caught the last half hour on television and it looked great. If only I had known. :(
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Summary: A pitiful excuse for a movie
Review: If you want to see a movie of Moby Dick, see the John Huston directed version, with screenplay by Ray Bradbury. This pitiful excuse for a movie was made by people who had no knowledge of New England, whaling, whales, or Herman Melville's epic novel. The grand poetry, the vivid imagery, the theological symbolism which fill "Moby Dick" are all missing in this shell of a film. Even Stewart's performance is a disappointment--Khan in Star Trek II does a better job of spouting Ahab's venom than Stewart's anemic portrayal. The additions to the story are meaningless (Chinese harpooners, Queequeg's "BLAH!" noises,Ahab's family)...and the omissions are puzzling (Elijah). And the rubber whale--who is unscarred, unmarked by corkscrew harpoons, ungrizzled, unbarnacled, with no flight of gulls--well, he looks like a rubber whale.
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Summary: if you can't improve on a classic, leave it alone
Review: If you've never seen the earlier film adaption of Moby Dick starring Gregory Peck, then I'm certain you will enjoy this version more than I did. My problem was that it seemed like this one was from beginning to end trying to displace the older one and scene for scene failed utterly. I can't blame them for trying. It seems producers can do many things that were never conceived of 30-40 years ago, but the thing about a classic is that it somehow transcends the advantages of production. A classic has a feel to it, a flavor, and you can't just super-size that.
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