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Summary: Great Film With A Message
Review: I never heard of this film until it was just there on the video shelves so I had no idea what it was about. It is very impressive and everyone should watch this film. It's well made and has great acting from veterans like James Woods and Kathleen Turner and also a great performance for the up and comer Kirsten Dunst. The way it shows how a family at first deals with the suicide of a family member and then just how they deal with the outside world is superb. Some people may be taken back by the title but don't let it stop you. The basic thing that is shown is the warped way an ultra-religious family deals with the outside world, which ends in disaster. It also shows parent-child relationships and how a lack of communication can lead to tragedy. I recommend that everyone see this movie.
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Summary: tragically beautiful, yet haunting two weeks later
Review: I'm not going to summarize too much, I see a lot of other people have done that. The film is an emotionally complex story, and normally that would be enough for virgin suicides, but it is so beautifully shot, it enhances the story. The final scene is a good example. When the credits go up and the lights go on, the cast and composition are in your thoughts for atleast two weeks. If only Kirsten Dunst would focus on more dramatic roles I'd be a bigger fan. Sofia Coppola definetly has a career to watch.
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Summary: Horribly choppy, ugly acting.
Review: I bought the DVD because the book was great and reviews here were good. I was serverely disappointed when I actually view the movie.NEGATIVES: 1. Sophia Coppla is the worst director EVER (directs worse than she acts, if that is possible). 2. Book flowed like a eery but pleasant dream sequence, while the movie chopped up that dream into uninteresting snapshots of poor acting and directing. One example is with the little girls first suicide attempt. The book amusingly details the quarks of the parametics, how they look and behave, while the movie just rips that out (boom, in/out deal). Then what makes everything from bad to worse is it jumps to a seen where the little girl forces the line, "Obviously doctor, you've never been a 13 year old girl." Perhaps the best line in the book, but here it was just thrown in like a gratuitus nude scene. YUK! 3. The Lison sisters were relatively unattractive and need acting school. The boys were uninteresting. The narriator had a horrible voice. 4. Paramount DVD is the worst DVD I ever came across (and I have about 100). When you play the movie, and view the first chapter, it prompts you to a copy rights warning for about 5 seconds, interrupting you right when your getting into it (and can't get rid of it), then it automatically sets you back into Main Menu. I had to manually skip the last few seconds of the first chapter to view rest of the movie. 5. Price is too high for this domestic DVD. POSITIVES. 1. Music was appropriate and good. 2. Some of the dreamy, pschodelic sequences were well done.
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Summary: This is very strange.
Review: This video is exteremely strange. It is definitely not a family movie, and the ending.....Well, I could definitely write better then this. I would say that this is like Eyes Wide Shut. Though this movie does have meaning, it is very choppy, and though it is hard to imagine that this happened in real life. I don't like how the it is narrated, and I think that people who don't want to waste time and money should neither buy it, or rent it.
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Summary: Good Book into a Good Movie
Review: First off I would like to tell you that I read the book about 4 weeks before seeing the movie. I was completely drawn to the book. Then when it came to watching the movie it brought my memories of the book back to life. Although I felt a couple of big parts were left out. Like when Theresse didn't finish her death, she attempted it again a month later after all her sisters had died, and that is when the Lisbon parents give up. But over the movie is put together really well. The movie is not supposed to tell you why the Lisbon girls killed themselves, it is kind of left up to you to decide cause you don't get the full picture of any of them. You only learn bits and pieces from the boys that worshipped them. Kirstin Dunst was fantastic in the movie she really brought Lux to life. Some of the actors I feel were a mis caste but the main characters were very well casted. This is an incredible movie, be sure to check it out.
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Summary: One out of 10 seems so grand when you really don't like it.
Review: I have something called a gut and it's real true and real honest to me, but I have a hard time listening to it. I read this book about a year before the film came out. I love it! It was and still is my favourite book. It's one of those books where imagination is key. I was dying to see the movie hoping it would have at least a strand of greatness that the book did but when I clicked "Place in Basket" I had a deep feeling that it wouldn't. It didn't. I know for many seeing the movie is just the easy way out, you don't have to read, but please, for the sake of your time and happiness, read it. The movie lacked everything tho book gained and in short -- I was not impressed.
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Summary: empty
Review: I guess I must be missing something. To me this movie lacked any kind of climax or any kind of satisfaction at its conclusion. I liked the eerieness and the creepy music though. This reminds me of Flowers in the Attic but its missing a real point. Good directing but a lifeless script. This movie has no purpose.
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Summary: Negative Votes Cast By Who?
Review: The developmentally challenged, perhaps? This is a master work, quite remarkable when considering that this is Sophia's first attempt at it, regardless of her background. The mood set is gripping. The images and music work together to create a movie that only the intelligent can fully appreciate, apparently. (You know who you are!) The book will never be so well served than with this wonderful adaptation of it. Additionally, there were so many wonderful performances, I would feel funny singling Kirsten Dunst out for praise, if she weren't so fully deserving of it: Dunst is a fantastic actress. She can do anything and make you fall in love with her - even this! So buckle your seat belts and enjoy! Unless of course you're just plain incapable of deciphering a real story. (You know who you are!!!)
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Summary: *a mysterious, bizaare, and almost dream-like movie*
Review: a mysterious, bizaare, and almost dream-like movie, about five beautiful teenage sisters, how they'd changed from seemingly perfect and happy young girls with bright futures ahead of them, to four doomed young girls who'd seemed to choke on the intoxicated air that their youngest sister had left behind for them after she'd commited suicide, and the boys who were obsessed with them. it's based on a book by jeffrey eugenides. it takes place in michigan, in the early sixties. fantastic music from air (air's score was just as good as the movie) one quick warning that may have been stated before- this movie is not for everyone.
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Summary: Haunting film, though not without its flaws
Review: Still an impressive directorial debut for Sofia Coppola (and adapted from the Jeffrey Eugenides book that I admittedly haven't read), I was somewhat disappointed by the often disjointed style of this movie. At times, THE VIRGIN SUICIDES had the feel of a Paul Thomas Anderson film with the occasional lazy edits and contrived dialogue; also a dash of David Lynch. I was also disappointed by the performances of James Woods and Kathleen Turner as the parents -- clearly these were disturbed parents, but their portrayals were shockingly remote and one dimensional. Come to think of it, much of the acting in this film felt dreamlike and a bit too flat -- partly intentional I'm sure ... but just how much? The first 2/3 of the movie satisfyingly built up the haunting mystique that I was expecting largely due to Kirsten Dunst's portrayal of the ravishingly enigmatic Lux Lisbon, but everything seemed to unravel after the high school dance sequence. I won't reveal any details, but suffice to say that it felt like a clumsy attempt to be overly "artsy". I think Sofia Coppola has serious potential however, and I think she can build on this experience.
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