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Summary: Something You Should Spend Some Time On It.
Review: The major reason makes me interest in this book and DVD was my Dad. This movie
was shot before I was born. When I was a little girl, I saw Dad watching this movie every time when it was shown on TV. My Dad is kinds of the action movie type. I was surprised why he loved watching this movie. So, when I was in the video store one day, I decided to rent the DVD to see what made my Dad to watch a love drama. Just like my father. I am totally devoted to the movie. I bought both "Oliver's Story" and "Love Story" and finished reading in one afternoon. For me, I like the Love Story more than Oliver's Story. The 3/4 part of the Love Story was a pleasant story. Both of them loved each other very much and would like to sacrifice for each other. For Oliver's story, it's all sad and how Oliver couldn't forget Jenny. Love Story is very well written. I highly recommend you to read it.
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Summary: My all time fav movie
Review: This movie is for people with real emotions.I read the book few yrs back and it really touched me .I was very curious to see the cinematic adaptation of the book and lemme tell you folks the movie was as good as the book Eric Segal is a master of such stories. I suggest that you read his book "Doctors".
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Summary: Give me a Break!!!!!
Review: This is without a doubt one of the worst movies I have ever seen. Ali McGraw, although beautiful to look at, was one of the worst actors to ever grace the silver screen. Guess being married to one of the top honchos at Paramount at the time did wonders for her career! Ryan O'Neil also was rotten. I just could noy buy him as the preppie Oliver, he just didn't come across as the Ivy League type.
As I recall the book, Jennie was a fiesty, spirited girl, McGraw sounds like she's reading her lines off cue cards, with absolutley NO emotion. She is not at all convincing. There was NO chemistry between either McGraw or O'Neil, they appear not to even like each other.
Not a very good rendition of a sweet little story.
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Summary: Bad style over bad substance.
Review: Nothing unmasks cheap scripting and trendy plot shifts like time, and the past thirty years have done a number on Love Story. The dialogue, while in its day considered coy and realistically witty, is now no more realistic than the plot: a combination of snappy cliches and shameless escapism, catering to those who think the mere idea of people in love is entertaining. Love Story meanders along through bad dialogue and even worse pacing toward no discernible conclusion...nothing builds, nothing changes, nothing is learned. The characters' speedy fall into love is not only unlikely (which IS romantic) but entirely unexplained onscreen (which only evoked laughter from myself and other viewers). After dispensing with 'all that falling in love with each other nonsense,' the characters' oddly boring relationship is subjected to a number of 'non-conformist' cliches: a rich father, an option to go overseas to an artistic school, a law school bid, religion, disapproval, and finally, death. Love Story's close is a reflection on its opening, melodramatic and cheaply written, but tainted by the cold knowledge that these two never actually fell in love; they simply woke up that way.
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Summary: LOVE MEANS....
Review: If you like love stories, then you will love this...Ryan O'Neal and Ali McGraw play two college students who meet, fall in love, and marry over his fathers objections...only to find out that she is dying...Movie is very touching, without being too corny...And yes it does have a sad ending...but it's very heartfelt, not maudlin...DVD picture and sound quality is pretty decent...buy and you won't be having to say you're sorry...
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Summary: why does everyone think this love story is so great?
Review: well it's not. It's not the worst movie I've ever seen, and i don't absolutely despise it, but I do strongly dislike it it. Why?, well, first of all, the story itself is very unoriginal. It's all been done before. Poor little rich boy falls for the actual poor girl. Parents dissaprove, and then, in the end, the girl ends up dying, and the guy mourns. I'm sorry, I just donot find any sentimental value in this film.There is no real chemistry between the actors, and the try way too hard to be all witty. There are too many cheesy lines between the two main characters for this to ever qualify for a great love story. Love stories are full of sincerity, and life. Not sappy,overacted bull. That's not called a love story, that's called a movie.
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Summary: what's all the hype about?
Review: The film is stilted, overacted, theatrical. The dialog delivery? It was like Oliver and Jennifer were reading from a script. When one hardly finishes saying something, the other is ready with a retort! "Brrrrrrk" it comes out! "Love Story" is not as boring a movie as it is... uh... phoney. You want to watch a real love story to get those tear ducts working watch "Waking The Dead" with Billy Crudup and Jennifer Connelly. Now that's what I call a good script, good acting, realistic and and heartbreaker of a movie.
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Summary: Better than average tragi-drama
Review: I was greeted with surprise by a friend when I recently said that I'd never even heard of Love Story, so she insisted I had to see it. For likewise uninitiated it concerns a couple who meet at Harvard from different ends of the social spectrum - she's poor, he's rich - and forge a relationship against all odds. When the girl contracts cancer though they find their love put to the ultimate test. If the synopsis I gave above sounds clichéd that's probably because the story is clichéd, although that doesn't mean to say that the movie is. In fact, against all odds it actually presents a very moving relationship that will, if nothing else, draw you in. The acting by the two leads is very good indeed, especially for the genre because they make an often-trodden story seem realistic. More than anything else it's the presentation of the relationship that makes this a romantic tragedy that's a cut above the rest. This isn't presented in hyperbole but as something real. They argue, they tease and they have fun like any other couple. This is important because it's one of those rare occassions where the 'love to end all loves' is actually presented realistically. Neither of the leads are stunningly good-looking, and they argue about issues that you imagine yourself arguing about. More importantly, the moral issue of whether the husband should tell his wife that she has cancer (in a particularly interesting social note today - the husband was told first) is presented very well indeed. This serves to make the ending quite moving and if the famous line 'Being in love means never having to say you're sorry' (which I hadn't ever attributed to Love Story before watching it) sounds cheesy then for the most part the movie isn't. In many ways it reminded me of the Marisa Tomei/Christian Slater vehicle Wild At Heart, which should be sought out by anyone who enjoyed this.
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Summary: I am curious.....
Review: Why did Oliver's father say to him: "You're not yet 21-- not yet an adult?" Most people graduating college have been traditionally been at least turning 22. And also-- why did Jenny not give Oliver a ring in the wedding ceremony? By the 1960's, I think most married men wore (or were at least given) a wedding ring, particularly educated, modern people like Oliver.
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Summary: The Most Beautiful Love Story
Review: This is the classic story of Oliver (Ryan O'Neal) and Jennifer (Ali MacGraw), the star crossed lovers whose simple romance is one of the most beautiful stories ever told on film. Oliver is a rich, mildly arrogant hockey playing Harvard student who falls for Jennifer, a poor wisecracking, slightly profane, Radcliffe student. The two begin dating, fall in love, and marry, much to the consternation of Oliver's parents, who cut him off financially. Oliver struggles through law school on Jennifer's salary as a teacher. Upon graduating, Oliver gets a good job at a high powered law firm and Jennifer quits teaching in the hopes that she can become pregnant. Then, fate intervenes. Jennifer is diagnosed with leukemia and their world is destroyed. The musical score is hauntingly dramatic. All of the cast give great performances, particularly Ray Milland as Oliver's father and John Marley as Jennifer's lonely father, Phil. Also recommended is "Oliver's Story", the sequel film, which is not a very good film except that it allows you to see what happens to Oliver in the aftermath of his loss.
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