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Summary: moderete
Review: I read both Gone With The Wind and Scarlett, and I thought that both of the book were very well written, but when the movie version of Scarlett came out I was very dissapointed. They did a wonderful job in the casteng department but the story line was a little off. I hope that they will make another version of Scarlett soon
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Summary: Not worthy of the name!
Review: GWTW the book is fabulous. GWTW the movie was excellent. Scarlett the book was entertaining and this Mini-series is simply not worthy. Although the plot generally follows Alexandra Ripley's novel, it deviates several times for the worse. JWK is not who I'd like to see as Scarlett but gave a bearable performance. (providing she wore contacts, which she did not) TD was an absolutly, not very good Rhett. There was nothing resembling Rhett Butler about him or his acting. The bloody rape and murder scene was completely unneccsary and ruined the entire thing. Generally, anything considering the plot of this mini-series is bad. I did however enjoy Jean Smart and Anne Margaret. They where the light of this awful mistake. GWTW fans should see this so that they can appreciate the GWTW book, movie and written sequal all the more
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Summary: OK - but could be 10 times better
Review: I've read both GWTW and Scarlett, and was pleased with Ripley's sequel to the wonderful love story, but when the movie came out, I couldn't help but be disappointed. I hope that soon there will be another one made, but for the big screen, and they put a lot more effort into it and follow the book more closely. I would like to see people crying and enjoying "Scarlett" as much as they did "Gone With the Wind"
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Summary: The ending is horrible! What happened????
Review: First off. . . the so called sequel to GONE WITH THE WIND will never measure up to the first. Kinda like to many Jason & Freddy movies! As a big time fan of GWTW I jumped on the band wagon. . . bought the book. . . waited for the movie. Let's just say the book is actually great! Different but great. The movie . . . well I will try to be nice. Joanne Whalley-Kilmer as Scarlett? What a joke! They should have got Delta Burke for that role! Timothy Dalton was an ok Rhett Butler better than the Scarlett. If they had stayed with the way the book was written instead of changing the ending it would have been much better. Where does Hollywood come up with some of their stuff? The ending in the book is so much better than what they showed! It was a crock of you know what! When it took place in Savannah,GA and Ireland that was really nice. Gave you a so-called new take on that time frame instead of the poor south at that time. Jean Smart played Sally Brewster's role wonderful. Gave the charater the spunk she needed!
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Summary: don't even bother to rent
Review: so i was at walmart last night browsing for an interesting movie to watch and i came across Scarlett. I had read both GWTW and Scarlett and seen the first movie, so i picked it up, and watched it. i have never wasted my time or money so badly. first of all, it took about 6 hours to watch. i thought the first half of the movie was ok and that it followed very closely to the book. but the second half was horrible. when cat was born that whole scene was disgusting, and cat was shunned aside to make room for lord fenton. they might as well not have even had cat in the film. they changed the whole plot line with the murder of fenton and the trial. that never happened in the book. they also cut Grainne out. timothy dalton was an ok rhett butler but he lacked the charm and arrogance. but joanne whaley kilmer looked like michael jackson in the film!!! it was so terrible. there was waaaaay too much adult content for this to be rated pg 13. it shoud be at least R.
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Summary: Scarlett
Review: I read the book, watched the TV mini-series,and bought the movie. I gave my Gone with the Wind DVD and Scarlett VHS tape to my daughter, replaced them and now I've ordered the rerelease of the DVD to replace my vhs tape. Thought this was a great movie.
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Summary: Scarlett - fail to capture the essence of the story and time
Review: GWTW the book is a wonderful, captivating book. Mitchell's Rhett is a man every woman wants. A man who is self-made, financially successful, and full of wisdom. An older, sophisticated man who falls in love with a child. His desire for her is driven by his unconscious wish to take care, and guide her to reach her full potential. He sees a feisty girl who could grow to be his equal. And he longs to conquer her heart for she would make his life constantly interesting. Here is a man who is afraid of a boring married life. A man who is in a way naive himself for failing to realize that two feisty people make a bad couple. Fail to realize that a child will grow and change. Fail to realize that a woman's ability to change is unbelievably beyond a man's comprehension. He wants to protect her and keep her a child all the while forgetting that her ability to survive and change is what make him fall head over hill in love with her. He knows he is lead into his own trap - the one he has tried so hard to avoid (telling her he is not the married kind) to keep his ego in tact.
Scarlett is a young girl who is coming of age - falling in love for all the wrong reason. She is thrust into hardship unexpectedly. Force to take the role of a leader, she revels in it. Whether Mitchell sufferred hardship in her life, I do not know. But in Scarlett, she painted a very precise and accurate picture of a girl who is force to become an adult and become so resilient she shuts out everything else except for her need to survive and her once beautiful daydream (in the blind love for Ashley). The value of her old days is so embedded in her that she fails to see Rhett in any light other than the one the society cast upon him. She see no light at the end of the tunnel so she keep on going while still wishing to return to the good old days of carefree and innocence. She see death, poverty and miseries around her. The men around her hold hopelessly to the good old days and sit tightly on their ego. She has not the time and leisure to explore love so she knows no better. One has to go through similar road to be able to convey it this well.
I love the movie GWTW as well as the book. Years ago when I first watched it after reading the book, my love for it was due to seeing the beautiful stars and costumes. Now, seeing it again, I still love it. Except I wish the movie would show the times Rhett spent supporting, encouraging Scarlett to become a successful business woman and guard Scarlett during her second pregnancy. To me, it shows the depth of his love for her. Other than that the movie stays pretty close and painted a very good picture parralel to Mitchell's thoughts. She grow up at the end of GWTW in realizing the Ashley she fell for is the pigment of her once naive imagination. Realize that Melanie is her true friend albeit one who does not share her ways of thinking. Melanie was a noble woman - devoid of judgement and gossip, and fiercely loyal. She complements Scarlett perfectly. And Scarlett realizes that Rhett has been instrumental in her quest to financial success.
In Scarlett the sequel, Scarlett nows can afford to contemplate about love. The book does a good job in showing her evolving into our so called "good girl". And showing us the love between Rhett and Scarlett still burn like fire. But the movie is a big dissapointment.
Timothy Dalton does not make a convincing Rhett. He does not smirk, his eyes do not dance with light, instead he moped. That is so unlike Rhett. Rhett would not marry that dreadful Anne. I failed to feel for her though I did with the book's Anne. The book made clear that Rhett married her to make thing right by the society he was trying to make peace with. The costume for Rhett here is horrible. The untidy clothes, the colors - they are not in line with a dashing, sophisticated, worldly Rhett. Gable's wardrobe showed a man with impeccable taste afforded by his wealth built by his extensive traveling to the fashion capital of the world. The same cannot be said about Dalton's wardrobe. I think Pierce Brosnan would turn in a better Rhett with his smirk and light-leapping eyes. Rhett left not because he could not live with Scarlett. He left because he could not be sure that Scarlett loves him for him or because she lost interest in Ashley. The sequel would be better showing him still unsure until the end. All I see here is his sulking, making weak decisions.
Joanne is not Scarlett. She lacks that charm that is the key to Scarlett. Scarlett would light up a room and charms the pants of the men in it. Her face is hard to look at at times. She fails to show the emotion that would showcase Scarlett's growth in the relationship department. Scarlett would not fall for Fenton. She would still be feisty when it come to business but evolve in the human relation department. None of that is seen in this movie. I would love to see more of her relationship with Cat.
The only thing that is satisfying to a die hard romantic like me is the two getting back together. The porno and violent scenes are disgusting. All in all, I hope for a better remake - one that evokes romance and serenity not nonsensical violence.
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Summary: The ending is horrible! What happened????
Review: First off. . . the so called sequel to GONE WITH THE WIND will never measure up to the first. Kinda like to many Jason & Freddy movies! As a big time fan of GWTW I jumped on the band wagon. . . bought the book. . . waited for the movie. Let's just say the book is actually great! Different but great. The movie . . . well I will try to be nice. Joanne Whalley-Kilmer as Scarlett? What a joke! They should have got Delta Burke for that role! Timothy Dalton was an ok Rhett Butler better than the Scarlett. If they had stayed with the way the book was written instead of changing the ending it would have been much better. Where does Hollywood come up with some of their stuff? The ending in the book is so much better than what they showed! It was a crock of you know what! When it took place in Savannah,GA and Ireland that was really nice. Gave you a so-called new take on that time frame instead of the poor south at that time. Jean Smart played Sally Brewster's role wonderful. Gave the charater the spunk she needed!
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Summary: Gone With the Wind This Ain't
Review: I love GWTW, personnally I think that it is one of the BEST movies of all time-- this is not up to par. I have read GWTW by Mitchell and I read Scarlett by Alexandra Ripley and I must say that the original is by far better. Now the Scarlett Miniseries was suppose to be the sequel to the GWTW movie not the book otherwise it would confuse those who've seen the original but didn't read the book, like Scarlett's other children by her first two husbands, I digress. However, the screenwriter or even the director of this movie thought it important to put Suellen having a family, after all in the first movie you expect her to be an old maid! Joanne Whalley as Scarlett O'Hara Hamilton Kennedy Butler is a like unbelieveable and I do agree with the other reviewers that said Terri Garber(Ashton of North and South) might have been a better choice, albeit type-casting. Timothy Dalton as Rhett Butler is a good choice, I actually liked him as Rhett and seemed a better notice that in the sequel Rhett has a Southern accent. Which from my understanding Clark Gable refused to play the part with the accent. My overall opinion of this movie is blah at best, if you really must see it I recommend finding it at your local video rental store.
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Summary: timeline
Review: i have been a huge fan of gwtw for about 30 yrs. i have read the book to many times to count, as well as watching the movie. i was very excited when i had heard that there was to be a sequal. recently i re-read both books and seen both movies. i am having a hard time with the time line though. didnt scarlett restore tara before the ending of the movie gwtw? if she did why does it look so shabby? when bonnie was thrown from her horse and died, wasnt it melly that came over and convinced captain butler to allow a funeral? than fainted, asking mammy to try to get her home. the next scene was at mellys death bed, which i took to be maybe 1 week later, after bonnie was buried because scarlett was in black. the book scarlett opened with mellys funeral and scarlett going back to tara, only to find mammy sick and dying. i could have sworn that the book scarlett said that mammy had been back at tara for 6 months, then went on to say that scarlett could not believe that melly had only been dead for 3 weeks. i also think that some of the dialogue used in gwtw was not carried through in scarlett. i enjoyed the movie and the book, but i kept in mind that there were two different authors. how can anyone really make a sequel when they didnt really know what margaret mitchell would have really thought? had she ever herself planned a sequel? did she leave notes? i truly would like to see this redone. although the scenery was beautiful was it really necessary to go to ireland? i also agree about the green eyes? fiddle dee dee i could have played a better scarlett, and my eyes are blue!!! well, i'll just think about that tomorrow.
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