Scarlett

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Summary: GREAT MOVIE
Review: Scarlett was a great movie. You can not expect anything to be as GREAT as GWTW. This movie has got me to watch it several times, looking foward to seeing it again. I also love GWTW. Timothy Dalton and Joanne Whalley did wonderful acting job. Great scenes, filmed in several beautiful locations. I just can't name all the good things I liked about it.

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Summary: GREAT MOVIE
Review: Scarlett was a great movie. You can not expect anything to be as GREAT as GWTW. This movie has got me to watch it several times, looking foward to seeing it again. I also love GWTW so I am not degrading that either. Timothy Dalton and Joanne Whalley did a wonderful job. Great scenes, filmed in several beautiful locations. I just can't name all the good things I liked about it.

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Summary: A Great Ending
Review: If you were as curious as I was about what happened between Rhet and Scarlett then this is a great movie. It is a little different than the book, but it is still good. If you have not read the book then you are in for a real treat because the story will make you want to keep on watching it(even if it is really long).

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Summary: Not even close
Review: I have read Scarlett and GWTW and seen both movies. The Scarlett portrayed in the movie does not do justice to the character of Scarlett herself. Nor does Rhett. In my opinion the movie adaption of the book was right on. The book was horrible to begin with. The characters are just not the way they are supposed to act. As a movie by itself it was good, but as an accurate portrayal of Scarlett and Rhett, they couldn't of done any worse. I hope someday to see a sequel to GWTW that will give due credit to the beautiful spellbinding charaters the Mitchell created.

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Summary: Not like the Book, but Still a Good Movie
Review: I have read both GWTW and Scarlett many times. I would not say that this movie stayed with the book at all, but Timothy Dalton and Whalley-Kilmer both did excellent jobs of following in legendary footsteps (Gable and Leigh). You have to remember that movies are not books and the time that it would have taken to fit the book of Scarlett into a movie would never have worked. The important thing is that the ending is basically the same. If you have some sort of strange attachment to the book Scarlett then this is not a movie for you, but if you can recognize good work without comparing it to the book, you will enjoy Scarlett the movie.

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Summary: Absolutely hideous!
Review: I don't even know where to begin about the butchering of Alexandra Ripley's amazing sequel to GWTW. After reading the book, I was thoroughly horrified by the deviations from the book that the directors took. Why bother to say the movie was based on the book when in reality it wasn't? Apparently the directors did not read GWTW either; as IF Scarlett would ever forgive Suellen or come to like her! This is a movie that would have been better left un-made rather than expose the rest of us to such a shoddy representation of a masterpiece. No one could possibly ever follow up the acting of Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable because they have burned permanent pictures of what "Scarlett and Rhett" should look and act like into our minds. Scarlett in the new movie didn't even have green eyes, for God's sake; in both books, her eyes were discussed at length and their significance was noteworthy.

I have never been more disappointed in a movie based on a book (except for "A Civil Action," but that's another story). It's movies like this that ruin people's opinions of a book, leading them to never read that book at all. I think the majority of people who actually liked this hideous version of Ripley's sequel have never read GWTW or Scarlett, and have only seen the movies. Both GWTW and Scarlett are meant to be READ anyway; the depth of the characters can never be conveyed onto a big screen with such a short amount of time! The history behind their families - Scarlett's mother and father and their intricate lives that explain how Scarlett came to be who she was, Scarlett's cousins and the Irish uprising, etc. - are lost in the translation to the big screen. At least, however, in GWTW the directors stayed basically true to the story and left viewers with an accurate portrayal of the book.

If I were Alexandra Ripley, I would change my name and live incognito the rest of my life, rather than face the shame of what those directors and actors did to my fantastic story and meticulous research.

Trust me - if you are a true GWTW fan, just read "Scarlett." Don't even bother with this movie or you will fume just like I am doing! If you are the type of person who enjoys soap-operatic displays that are totally unrealistic, and you have never read either book, then you might enjoy this movie because you won't have the initial bias. But please rest assured that this movie is nothing like the book and is indeed a very poor imitation/reflection upon it.

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Summary: just horrible
Review: I was expecting a deviation from the book Scarlett, but never in my wildest thoughts did I ever imagine that the movie would be as altered from the book as it was. And it wasn't changed for the better. if it was just the plot maybe I wouldn't be so mad, but I feel that the characters were also changed in very drastic ways. i cannot believe how much they butchered a very enjoyable book.

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Summary: Okay, fine, whatever...
Review: It was not great. Actually, I really didn't like it. I thought that there were so many things that could have been done better. For instance, Scarlett's accent. Is it just me, or does it sound SO not southern? Well, that's not so important, because by the end of the movie, you'll get used to it. I hated it that they changed the whole story around. I mean, ew! Whoa, I liked me book so much better. In the movie, there was no characterization of either Scarlett or Rhett. They are both really complex characters and it doesn't accurately portray them at all. Scarlett thinks about Rhett so much more in the book and I think that was forgotten in the movie. Also, Cat is barely even recognized in the movie. She is such a cool little person. Grainne is also not recognized hardly at all, and if I hadn't read the book, I wouldn't have known who she was. I do, however, love one aspect of the movie: you get to see just what Rhett's doing as Scarlett's away. You see just how he is and what he acts like. I did like that a lot. I knew when i got the movie that it was never going to compare to Gone With the Wind. Nothing can, but I think that if the writers had chosen better scenes to focus on, it would have gotten better ratings and would have sold more copies. It's a good movie if you like soap operas, but a TERRIBLE movie if you like to watch the more "down-to-earth"-y type love stories, such as Gone With the Wind. Sorry this was so long, but I had a lot to say.

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Summary: A lot better than Ripley's book!
Review: This is a fun movie, very soap operaish. It does what Ripley's book didn't and put Rhett right in the middle of the action. It also more believably portrays Scarlett's and Rhett's love for each other than the book did and has a plot that's easier to follow. Stop whining about how it doesn't measure up to Gone with the Wind. I wasn't expecting an Academy Award winning movie when I bought this. I wanted a happy ending to Rhett and Scarlett and that's exactly what I got.

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Summary: Scarlett: An unforgetable film of an unforgetable person
Review: Scarlett is a wonderful movie with all the romance and dreams of Gone with the Wind. Although a bit longer than the prequil, it shines as one of the most outstanding dramas ever made. Scarlett delivers to those of you who were hoping for a better end to Gone with the Wind. Scarlett continues to share her triumphs and loses, but copes with them as she always has. "Tomorrow is another day," becomes the theme as Scarlett battles for her lost love, and regains her self confidence. This movie is based on Scarlett, the book by Alexandra Ripely, which I also strongly recommend (see my review there).