Total Eclipse

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Summary: Beautiful Movie............
Review: I Think this movie was amazing. For Instance It Shows How Love can be so tragic,and how life at most times could be unfair.I think Leonardo Dicaprio should have got an oscar for his performance in this movie. Because I Think This Was His Best Acting Performances other Than Gilbert Grape. The Cinematography in this movie was great it seemed to have the manet qualties in like the scene when leonardo passes by this gate which was in one of manet paintings with red haired women sitting down in front of the gate and a little girl looking behind the fence looking at smoke.This Movie Is A masterpiece and i cried in several scenes especially the end when he remebers when he asked him if he loved him and then stabbed him in the hand that to me is how love can sometimes be painful and traggic. I Truly Recommend This Movie

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Summary: WHAT THE HELL WAS HOLLAND THINKING??
Review: It's hard to even approach this movie, to write anything about it, because one has to posssess genius to describe in the most minute detail HOW BADLY THIS MOVIE SUCKED. If the performance by our Teen Magazine superboy Leo isn't enough to turn you off, wait till you notice that HE DOESN'T EVEN HAVE A FRENCH ACCENT! Why does Leonardo Dicaprio get to play roles he has no understandin of whatsoever? Jim Carroll? ARTHUR RIMBAUD? Perhaps Leo and his goo goo ga ga "let's get it on after I beat my wife" buddy David Thewlis decided that hey, the story of Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine is way too important to make an actual movie about, so let's start shredding the celluloid and paste together some sh*t. I'm glad I've been into Rimbaud for awhile, because if I had seen this movie without knowing anything about him I would have gotten the coffeehouse blues, starting wearing a beret, acting like a moron and drinking cheap imitation absinthe. Not to get all high and mighty, but how dare they do this to Arthur Rimbaud. And Verlaine, for that matter. This is movie is an example of bad filmmaking at it's worst. It is a "B" grade movie about one of the most important poets to ever live. The beginning is embarrassing, the disjointed and excruciatingly pretentious, unmotivated dialogue is embarrassing, and the the end--with lil' Leo trying to play the aged Rimbaud with a mustache worthy of a young Adolf Hitler--is REALLY embarrassing. If you're just starting on Rimbaud I've just got to tell you, don't see this movie.

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Summary: Bad Film, Bad , Bad Film
Review: I had very high hopes for this film before I saw it. It wasn't just a disappointment, it was an absolute travesty! The only thing that DiCaprio was able to connect to Rimbaud was his face. He looks almost identical to the young Rimbaud that you see in old photos. But what can you say about DiCaprio's acting? All I can say is if he actually does have the supposed acting chops that people talk of, they were not displayed in this film. He did not look like the farel genius that Rimbaud was, he looked like a spoiled, obnoxious Beverly Hills brat, and the American accent didn't help either.

I must say the one and only highlight of this film is Romane Bohringer, who plays the overly patient wife of Paul Verlaine, Mathilde Maute. In fact, I became a fan of hers after I saw her for the first time in this film.

I usually don't make reviews online unless I feel very strongly for or against something. In this case I felt the need to say it: this film could've used better actors, but it still would'nt have made it any better. With the exception of Bohringer this film is a waste of time. And what was with that Lee Press-on mustache.

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Summary: A Masterpiece!!
Review: an astonishing film. one i wont soon forget. i love how leo dicaprio has a special ability to play any type of character he chooses!