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Summary: Autumn in New York, Spring in Melodrama
Review: Though I very much am a fan of both Winona Ryder and Richard Gere, I was not impressed with this film. There simply seemed to be no chemistry between Ryder and Gere, not even in character. The film follows Will, played by Gere, and Charlotte, Ryder's role, through a "love" that never seems to reach any epiphany. Some performances on screen make the viewer forget it's on screen. This is not one of them. The stories of Charlotte's sickness and Will's instantaneous love after completely heinous behavior do not mix well. I have seen these two talented actors perform much better roles.
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Summary: very underrated movie with no features
Review: This is a very good movie and i don't know why people have been so hard on it. Richered gere and wionia ryder have chemistery that light's up screen and it is warm and very heartfelt. This is one the most underrated movie's of last year. I do have a problem though the dvd has no feature's at all expect a wide and fullscreen option for the film. I can't understand why they did not even include a theartcial trailer, a commentery, featurette and deleted scene's would have been great. Buy this movie though for the movie you will be glad you did. 5 star's for the movie 1 for the dvd.
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Summary: 1 star is too much for this film
Review: This film is not a love story. It is a poorly scripted and poorly acted tale of a 48 year old sex-compulsive womanizer (Will, played by Richard Gere) that beds an immature poem-reciting pseudo-wise 22 year old with a terminal illness (Charlotte, played by Winona Ryder). It tries to show Will's transformation from creep to sensitive grandfather, the catalyst being Charlotte's impending and ultimate death, but it never reaches believability. Gere's performance is insincere and Ryder's is academic. This is a definite must-miss. Too bad I had to watch it to find out.
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Summary: Mediocre heartrending movie
Review: I didn't think there were any chemistry between Wiona Ryder and Richard Gere. They didn't seem to really be madly in love with each other or with New York. There were more sparkle between Gere's best friend and him than there were between the lovebirds themselves. And Gere was horrible in this movie. I don't think he was even acting!However, I must say this is a girlie flick, so guys you were warned here. If you want to go out with the guys, rent this movie for your sweetie, buy a box of kleenex and hightail out of the house. She'll appreciate you not seeing her cry ~~ whether because of the mediocre acting or because of the poetry mentioned in the movie. It is a good movie to watch just once then you know that it wasn't meant to be. I really miss Julia Roberts in times like this! I think Gere shouldn't be paired up with anyone else. Ryder needs to gain weight and take more acting lessons. She was so much better in Heathers or some of the other Gen-X movies. They didn't clash, but they weren't right for each other. What a shame ~~ the story was romantic.
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Summary: Very, very bad...
Review: I must be 3/4 of the way thru watching this movie on video right now, and all I can think is "Please lord, let her die. PLEASE LET HER DIE SO THIS HORRENDOUS FILM CAN BE OVER." Enough said.
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Summary: Once foreign, twice beautiful.
Review: Two attractive people living familiar lives in unremarkable parts of New York City endure, what can also be familiar there, a rain-soaked autumn. Out of such plain stuff is spun an opera for the eyes, a parable in the language of color, a cinematic poem sparing in words, rapturous and beautiful. It is oriental art delightfully beyond us. In six voices -- painting, ballet, drama, music, poetry, and silence -- it tells one story and illuminates another, yet it is as indifferent to our discovering its humble philosophy as nature is. Even these hints may be telling too much: View "Breakfast at Tiffany's" first. "Autumn in New York" is contained by something universal at the heart of that film and the short novel it was based on. Look at the screen as you would a painting, there are messages there. Notice colors in relation to the progress of the season and in relation to characters -- the colors they wear, but also the colors that share the screen with them. Allow that walking can be dance, if expressive enough, likewise just a gesture of the arm. Allow the oriental view that the hands are the center of dance. This is a ballet hidden in a drama. Try to pick up the threads of its movement and gesture, and follow. Understand what is expressed in dance alone. Turn the volume up plenty to mask ambient noise. At the crisis of vital scenes there is a deep silence, one that gifts us with cat's ears: in that vivid wakefulness there are noises beyond music. One fortunate enough to come under the spell of this beautiful work leaves a little wiser to color's meanings, a little more a fan of the ballet that is hidden in life's drama, a little more awake to silence, and a little more ambitious for what movies ought to be.
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Summary: Where is the chemistry?
Review: This is one of those films where everything is perfect and it still doesn't matter. The film is visually beautiful and Gere and Ryder give polished performances. Only one problem, I really didn't care what happened to the characters. Gere's womanizing Will and Rider's Charlotte have no chemistry. This firework fizzled!
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Summary: Unmoving love story.
Review: This is one of the worst films I have ever seen. It was slow moving and not worth the time and money I spent to go and see it. It only made it to the cinema because Gere and Ryder were in it. Put two lesser known actors in it and it would have got no where. I think the problem was that I just didn't care about he characters or what happened to them. He is a ruthless womaniser and she is a fool for falling for him. Don't bother, unless you are a Gere or Ryder fan. To make the viewer care and empathise is the aim of the director in a love story. It didn't happen for me and I was glad when it was over. Not my taste at all.
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Summary: What went wrong?
Review: I rented this movie thinking it was going to be an all time favorite, boy was I wrong. It had no realistic plot and it was to predictable. Gere was a jerk, and Ryder was an immature 22 yr. old (for having gone through so much... losing parents, being diagnosed with a tumor...)-- I hope I don't act that childish around my elders.
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Summary: In a word - woeful !
Review: An absolute waste of time- has stilted acting and dialogue to make you cringe! Some nice cinematography is wasted on this stinker.
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