Great Expectations

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Summary: Worth missing a date
Review: Ended up arriving 1 hour late to a dinner date after this movie popped up on HBO. Stunning visually. Beatiful music. A story that I couldn't tear away from.

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Summary: Beautifully Shot
Review: Have watched this movie over and over, relishing different aspects of it at each sitting. Wonderful soundtract too. Has anyone noticed that most of the characters were dressed in green in each scene? That was brilliant, absolutely!

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Summary: Expect Great Expectations to be Pretty Good
Review: This movie was a work of art in itself with a gorgeous sountrack, breathtaking cinematography, beautiful artwork, and perfect timing. However, if you are looking for a movie that stays true to the original novel or deep character development, look elsewhere. Great Expectations the movie is simply a very slicked over and glossed up layman's version of Dicken's masterpiece. In any case, I enjoyed it very much and think it is worth purchasing.

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Summary: Lowered Expectations
Review: For some inexplicable reason, the film makers took the plot line from the great Dickens' masterpiece, gave it a remarkably luminous cinematography, and then proceeded to completely strip out emotional resonance of the original story, so that they end up with a mere pretty postcard of a movie. Given the title and likewise high expectations on my part, I was very disappointed.

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Summary: Yawn
Review: As my one-line summary says, I thought this movie was boring. I was very disappointed in it. I didn't care for the character Gwyneth was portraying. And I've never seen any star quality in Ethan Hawke.

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Summary: Great
Review: The movie was great. That's the only word that I can use to describe i

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Summary: watchable
Review: Worth the price of renting a video. I picked this one up strictly because I saw DeNiro was int it, and although he plays no more than a cameo, the movie kept my attention.

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Summary: A MOVIE THAT OSCAR OVERLOOKED
Review: I think that this was one of the best films of 1998. A superb job by Gwyneth Paltrow, Ethan Hawke, Robert DeNiro, and Anne Bancroft. The art, the scenary, and the acting provided a masterpiece that Dickens would be proud of. The soundtrack captures much of the emotion of the movie and delievers a strong background for each scene. I am sure Oscar is hitting himself because he overlooked such a well developed cast and movie. A MASTERPIECE!

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Summary: cool
Review: i don't know how 2 say tha

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Summary: NO ONE HAS>>>>>
Review: remarked that there is not ten seconds of this film which has no green in it!...... This you will not get at first, but, look again and again.... This OBSESSION with green matches the overwhelming "obsessions" of at least three of the main characters (EXCLUDING Estella, who is as devilish as Dickens told us)........GO FOR THE GREENS, IF NOTHING ELSE !!...... Six stars, or more..... Why no oscars?....sclshelton... [Since I have watched this movie 15 times in the last 4 months - does this make ME an obsessive, too?]