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Summary: A good representation
Review: I saw this movie before I read the novel. It was intriguing and everytime I watched Gone With The Wind I had felt sort of cheated. I was thrilled to hear that there was more to the story. Because I felt the movie was so good, it inspired me to read the book. And though the movie wasn't entirely like the book, it held true to the essence of the story. The book was pretty long, and so was the movie, you can't expect everything from the book to be included in the movie!
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Summary: great sequel, but nothing compares to the original
Review: This was a great movie, but I just can't get use to seeing someone else playing Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable. No one could ever replace them! It's hard to get use to seeing someone else play their parts. The book I thought was much better than the movie, still yet it was a wonderful movie. I wished they were still alive so they could have finished it instead. I always wanted someone to finish the story, and Mrs. Ripley did a great job, it's the only part of Gone With The Wind I didn't like was the ending. So those who are looking for a great ending, here it is!
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Summary: Very satisfying
Review: After the abrupt, and almost inconclusive, ending to GWTW I found great satisfaction with the ending to Scarlett. You were, however, led through many plots along the way sugesting a similar ending to the first. Even with the supposed non-relation to the book Scarlett, for someone who has not read it and has seen GWTW, you will not be dissapointed. The indepth plot and new twists every minute engulfs the viewer with hurt, anger, frustration, fear and relief almost to the point where you will wish the 6 hour movie was longer. Amazing movie.
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Summary: What a disappointment
Review: I was absolutley enthralled by this movie, Dalton and Whalley-Kilmer were spectacular, until I read the novel the movie was based on. The movie leaves much to be desired after having read the book. Colum's character was underdeveloped and his death lacked the martyred dignity it had in the book. Fenton was too brutal, his character of the book never even peeped out, and his hair was supposed to be raven, like Rhett's. Dalton played a spectacularly dashing Rhett, but a lot of his character was lost with the leaving out of the Landing, which disappointed me. Scarlett was played impeccibly, but her character never grew up, never lost the vain self-centeredness that she so proudly shed in the book. Also, Scarlett's success in Anglo society without Fenton left the plot lacking. As did the abrupt ending, it left Scarlett with a tainted reputation and Scarlett and Rhett's reuniting dead. Cat was left out of the plot almost sompletely, while in the book she was a main part of it. So in a very condensed version of my feelings, I was very impressed by the cast, but very unimpressed by the remake of the plot. Although the movie didn't come close to matching the plot of the novel, it was still an excellant movie and I suggest it to all, although I have fairly ruined the plot with my rantings ;)
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Summary: OMG! This movie was better than the 1st!
Review: I do not know how some people can call this movie trash. Yes, there was a few unreal, hard to beileve parts and the character who looked played Ashley Wilkes did not resemble him at all, but in spite of that this movie is WELL DONE!!! Timothy Dalton plays a GREAT Rhett..almost as good as Clark Gable, with a little more heart, which is a plus! And the person playing Scarlett did a GREAT job too! The whole movie is Just WONDERFUL!!!!!! I must say, even though GWTW is a great classic movie Scarlett is, in my opinion bettert than the Classic. IT provides a rewarding end, and it doesn't get boring. (some parts in GWTW were a little snoozers) but this movie Scarlett is absoulutley GREAT! A big pat on the back to the author of Scarlett and to the directors of this WONDERFUL MOVIE!!!!!
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Summary: Ummmmm.......
Review: This movie had nothing to do with the book Scarlett. I am an eighth grader and I just finished reading the books amonth ago so I decided to rent the movie. Oh My Gosh! What a wast of my time. They changed the ending so much that I thought that maybe I had gotten the wrong move. My friend and I turned it in to a comedy though; we just laughed at it's stupidity. That was fun.
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Summary: OMG, what a dreadful piece of trash!!! minus 10 out of 10
Review: I loved GWTW. I first read the book at 13, and reread it over one hundred times before I got out of high school. The movie was also wonderful, and so I looked forward eagerly to seeing Scarlett, the movie. I just couldn't believe what I was seeing when I watched it. Having read Alexandra Ripley's wonderful book, and loving the way Scarlett changed and grew up in a very satisfying manner, I was nothing short of appalled and the butchery committed in this dreadful piece of grotty trash.It left me wondering, did anyone involved in this film actually read the book? Either Scarlett or GWTW? Or even see the movie of GWTW? This was such an enormous departure from the characters of Scarlett and Rhett that by the time it ended I was squirming in my seat with discomfort and horror. The first half was at least nice to look at, the scenery and the costumes etc, while one cringed at the dreadful dialogue and less than adequate acting of JWK and TD. The second half however had me groaning out loud the whole way through... The whole descent of the story from a voyage of self discovery, personal growth and reunion with a lost love to a tawdry filthy tale of rape and murder, terribly written, overacted and insulting not only to the characters of the books, but to both Alexandra Ripley and Margaret Mitchell. If I had not known this was supposed to be Scarlett and Rhett, I would have thought it the worst kind of soapy sensationalist garbage and not fit to waste hours of my life viewing. The peripheral characters got scanty attention at best, and completely and horribly rewritten at worst.... Fenton, a sadistic rapist? Colum, Scarlett's cousin, in love with her? Suellen and Scarlett best buds? Sally Brewton a tall blonde gorgeous woman? Oh, mere words cannot stress how bad this is. I plan to pretend this movie was never made and hope upon hope that someone with actual talent and caring for the legend of Scarlett and Rhett will remake this the way it should have been.
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Summary: Perfect sequel to Gone With the Wind.
Review: If you loved Gone With The Wind you will enjoy this movie. It goes further into Scarlett's life. I would like to see even another video made to follow up this one.
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Summary: If there was a lower rating, I'd give it to this movie...
Review: I am absolutely stunned at the people who have said that this can be held up to GWTW! Timothy Dalton a better Rhett?! Joanne Walley-Kilmer's accent AUTHENTIC?!?! What movie did these people watch? Have these people actually TALKED to people from the south? And how can ANYONE believe these things would have happened to a strong person like Scarlett O'Hara? I was so very disappointed when I watched this movie, I stopped five times so I could calm down. It is so far off-base compared to the book, which in my opinion, made a better story and didn't sensationalize ANYTHING to the degree that this movie did. The relationship that Scarlett develops with her Irish family is underdeveloped, the relationship with Rhett is underplayed while she is in Ireland, and she comes across as a cold hearted witch. I was excited when I first bought the movie, remembering the book I had read by Alexandra Ripley and I couldn't wait to watch the screen version. The entire movie is glossed over! It departs drastically from the book and leaves out so much. It turns Scarlett into a potential murderer, the victim a man who wasn't nearly so evil as he was portrayed in this horror flick. If you want to see what would really happen to Scarlett, read the book. I think it comes much closer to what would have been reality, and what Margaret Mitchell would have done with the story, had she chosen to. I wondered as I watched the movie if Ms. Ripley had been shocked and disappointed as I had when I watched, and whether Ms. Mitchell was spinning in her grave. It would have been better to leave Scarlett and Rhett an unsolved mystery than to visit this horror upon them.
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Summary: A GREAT FOLLOW-UP TO "GONE WITH THE WIND"!
Review: The most highly anticipated sequel in history proves to be well worth nearly sixty years of waiting. "Scarlett" is a lavish, epic film that ties up all the loose strings left by "Gone With the Wind", and while not combining all the original elements of "GWTW" and indeed a long film, it is an extremely entertaining and engrossing film. Joanne Whalley-Kilmer is excellent as the tempestuous post-Vivien Leigh Scarlett O'Hara Butler, bringing a freshness and originality to the role so unique that she succeeds in diminishing Leigh's emblazonment on the role. Timothy Dalton is excellent in his Clark Gable-follow-up to Rhett Butler, bringing a deep sense of humanity to the role lacking in Gable's performance. The story picks up right where "GWTW" left off, and we finally get to know what happened to Scarlett and Rhett. Through this engrossing tale, Scarlett sets out to seek Rhett's love again, make peace with her past haunts, and discover her true identity. Her journey takes her from Atlanta to Charleston to Ireland and beyond before she can succeed in winning back the man she always loved. All the other memorable characters are back too: Ashley Wilkes, Mammy, Aunt Pittypat, Suellen and Will, just to name a few. And there are some new faces, as well: Jean Smart is immensely likable as Sally Brewten, a wily friend of the Butlers with a heart of gold. Colm Meaney is great in his role of Colum O'Hara, Scarlett's Irish cousin. And Ann-Margret makes a memorable cameo as Atlanta's leading madam, Belle Watling, along with Esther Rolle in the part of Mammy. And Sean Bean is very effective in his role of Richard Fenton, an Englishman whom Scarlett meets up with... and later regrets. A lively script, crisp direction, and gorgeous cinematography blend together perfectly to create the most anxiously awaited sequel in history... and it's all worth the wait!
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