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Summary: One of the best
Review: We watched this movie in my english class, and i had planned on 3 straight days of sleep. Instead, i didn't want to leave when the bell rung, and when we finished it i borrowed it from my teacher for the next month and seriously watched it twice a week. It is amazing, everyone shoudl see it. The message is great, the plot is great, the acting is great. It will appeal to your conscience. Please see this movie. This is an amazing bargain, i'm orderng it as we speak.
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Summary: EXCELLENT!
Review: I am only 16, so I dont know what to say best about this movie. Robin Williams, and the boys in it are excellent. The point to the story is wonderful and I truly believe that it should be shown to all kids in high school at least. To truly appreciate it though, you have to have appreciation for the subjects that they strike upon.
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Summary: Wow.
Review: Wow. That's all I could muster up after seeing this film. I loved it, I truly, truly loved it, it was such a touching movie. Josh Charles did an excellent job acting, as did Robin Williams of course. I really loved this movie, and I don't know what else there is I can say about it. It's am emotional movie, and it's an endearing one.
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Summary: Truly inspirational!
Review: As an educator, this movie is the most inspirational I have ever seen! In college I had the great fortune of having a professor like Mr. Keating. Now in my classroom, I try to reach out to my students in a similar way. Carpe diem!
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Summary: Cracker of a film!
Review: Amazing. Solid story line and acted with dexterity and passion. I won't bother going into details because there are so many and I won't bother going into how wonderfully I thought each of the actors acted. I've never actually felt this emotional about a film, ever! It takes a lot for a film to make me feel the way I did, when I saw this one - I was actually crying - at a film! - this is exhaustingly rare. The reason for this is very possibly because I can relate to how some of the characters actually felt (I.e. I've felt the same way). The film touched me in some way, which is difficult to put into words. It reminds me and gets me look back at my life, even though it would only be seventeen years that I'd be looking back on. The film gets me to think about my own life and is helping me to establish what I really want to do with my life and how I should conduct it. It does this by getting me to think about what really matters in my life and the important things in it. Films like this one have in my opinion important things we can learn from.
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Summary: The Academy missed this one....
Review: Everybody is talking about Robin Williams' Oscar winning performance in "Good Will Hunting", and rightfully so. But I knew that Williams was talented to Oscar levels after "Dead Poets Society". I was dazzled by Williams' portrayal of a prep school teacher who refuses to let go of the passion he had as a youth. Surrounded by dry, cold, rigid collegues, John Keating (played by Williams) offers students a glimmer of hope and inspires them like never before. It is nice that the movie won an Oscar for its screenplay, but the Academy laid an egg by passing Williams up for best actor. This film is wonderful, from the character development, cinematography, soundtrack, and costumes. Robin Williams is frequently accused of over-acting, but he nails this role. Superb and inspiring.
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Summary: GREAT
Review: I think the movie is great, especially Robin Williams. He was good and once again shown his talents as a funny(but actually emotionally sad) person. The movie is inspiring despite the critics it has received from other viewers saying that it is no good. I enjoyed the movie and nearly cried. It is a special show that is not like present movies where violence etc is "filled" to the maximum.
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Summary: Ironically Phony
Review: Sorry, I know how all the people who gave this movie five stars feel, and I know it must've grown from a worthwhile premise. But the funny and inspiring moments (and there are many) are quickly overwhelmed by melodrama and sanctimony. It was depressing to watch what began as a heartening ode to literature and individuality degenerate into yet another Cheap Emotion Factory. More depressing than if the film had been all bad. Couldn't the filmmakers have trusted us to be moved by these kids' wary steps toward self-expression without clobbering us with that melodramatic subplot. The artsy, lugubrious way it was filmed--as though it were some heroic Sacrifice For Art--was almost pornographic. And the "bad" parents and faculty were implausibly one-dimensional, stodgy and unreasonable, just to suit the plot-machinations. Rarely have I felt so patronized by a movie. Robin Williams was funny and engaging for the first hour, though I did wonder what kicking soccer balls had to do with literature--more cinematic than a real poetry class, I guess. But after the persecution-of-the-rebels charade kicked in, he became so disingenuously prim and sanctimonious, I could barely watch. He is a fish out of water playing this kind of Saint, and I didn't believe it for a second. The movie tells us repeatedly how stifling this school's faculty are. But more oppressive than their straw-man myopia was the realization that we were being churned through yet another Hollywood tearjerking mill. Everything, the swells of generic music, the close-ups of weeping faces, the predictable plot turns, was by-the-numbers, mechanical and trite. And notice that all the daring, poetic students were beautiful, while the one, competitive traitor who "didn't get it" was ugly. One of the most ironic moments of my life was the spectacle of dozens of suburban soccer moms exiting the theater in weeping, sobbing herds. In this situation, there was nothing more conformist than crying for these oppressed nonconformists. Maybe the key to Hollywood success is getting people to rally around something they've already lost.
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Summary: Powerful, smart, engaging and funny.
Review: Dead Poets Society is a movie focusing on a rare theme: the camaraderie shared between a group of young men, and the inspiration and tragedy that binds them. All performances turned in were remarkable, with Robin Williams both hilarious and stirringly passionate. In addition, his young peers were outstanding, each bringing a different flavor of indiviual to the screen. Everyone was represented: the shy, the outgoing, the artistic, the oppressed, the two-faced, the wisecrack, the nerd, the dumb one--anyone you could possibly relate to! The cinematography was exemplary, with sweeping, breathtaking shots of the school campus, showing its journey through the seasons. The movie also used English and language in such a way that is lost on most film makers. The interweaving of poetry and plot symbolism was unique and well-appreciated by this English major. This is a movie that watches like a good piece of literature reads. I cannot recommend a movie more highly.
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Summary: Very Good -- Better without Robin Williams?
Review: DPS is a very good film--emotional and surprisingly literate for a Disney/Touchstone effort. The performances of Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke, et al. are really what carry one through the film and give it resonance and it is a shame that the promo material (and, in fact, most of these reviews) center on the somewhat less-than-perfect performance by Robin Williams. Not that he's really awful, but he seems even more out of place than he perhaps should. With the DVD Widescreen version, you get to see all of the beautiful color- and light- saturated surroundings, and the nicely framed images of groups of students. So that's nice. Just wish that Disney/Touchstone could provide a few more "extras" than a few language selections.
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