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Summary: "This was one of the most powerful movies of all time!"
Review: I can't believe how stupid some people are to say that there was much of anything if anything wrong with it! One person wrote that it was too violent but they must not be educated enough to know that it was thousands of times more violent when it was really heppening. Anybody who thinks this movie was anything less than 4 stars needs to go and take their world hisory class again!
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Summary: Historically A Classic
Review: This movie is a true classic in every sense. A movie that should be shown in all schools. Spielberg did a fantastic job on this movie. The b&w was not a turn off, but made a lot of sense. The acting is superb also. A must see.
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Summary: Very Well Acted
Review: This movie will definitely make any person stop and think. I do believe that this movie was too long however, the point could have been made in about half the time.
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Summary: Vintage Spielberg
Review: This movie is one of the most terribly beautiful movies of all time. Spielberg shows the horror of the Holocaust and Oskar Schindler's "true" self: not as a saint, but as an adulterous Nazi-associator. Neeson's portrayal of Schindler is wonderful and believable. One of Steven Spielberg's greatest movies.
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Summary: What can I say?
Review: I really don't have much to say about this film, because so much has been said already. It is a modern classic in the truest sense of the term. It should be required viewing for all humanity.
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Summary: And now for the truth that is always concealed...
Review: PLEASE dont get me wrong, this movie contained strong dialogue-one of the things that make movies meaningful. The effects and cinematography were very creative, and truly realisic. They were so realistic that after a while you come down to the conclusion that Schindler's List was a movie that supports " Jewish Propaganda". Many of the violent and gruesome scenes and Speilburg's talent of using certain cinematography to convince you are totally geared to bias objectives... watch the movie.. but remember- its only a movie!
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Summary: A few interesting comments and responses.
Review: I say this movie really tore me up. i don't know who came up with the idea to make people like me literally tear their eyeballs out so they can show how horrible the holocaust is. i thought the actors were pretty good, but some of the stuff in this movie was horrid. it was such a morbid movie. i got to hand it to speilberg though, he dramatized it too well. speilberg did NOT make schindler seem all great and fancy. The man cheated on his wife. The whole point of the movie was honoring him because he saved about a thousand Jews. It could've been shorter instead of showing us the grewling details of the holocaust.
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Summary: Excellent.
Review: How anyone can say anything less than complimentary about this movie is beyond me. This is a movie that is affecting because of its subject matter, but also a cinema masterpiece, with the kind of technical prowess possessed only by the greats. A fabulous movie.
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Summary: Most over-valued movie in quite some time
Review: I would never quarrel with a film-maker's right to produce whatever he wants. But Spielberg verges on revisionism of the worst kind. It's not relectively revisionist. It is without admitting it and for the sake of itself. I'm not talking about the Holocaust, I'm talking about the man Schindler -- Schindler as remembered by countless others other than Spielberg was not like the one in the movie. Just because Spielberg says he was doesn't make it so.He tugs on all the obvious heartstrings, he tells you how to feel and when exactly to feel it. It's interesting the film is black and white because all characterization is. All the right Oscar elements are in place and you can be sure Spielberg knew it. The Academy gave him the award because they were afraid of the moral response they'd get if they didn't. Also their choices are suspect at best anyway -- Shakespeare in Love? As a filmmaker he hardly does anything innovative or new. Most of all, this film, as does Saving Private Ryan, proves the dangers of Speilberg's taking a piece of history and passing it off as objectivity instead of his reading of it, and having people readily accept it. This film should be titled "Spielberg's Reading of History, Part I" and continued by Ryan...I'm sure there's more to follow.
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Summary: "Whoever saves one life...
Review: "Saves the world entire." So much has been said already about this masterpiece, which is easily the best film of at least the last 20 years. Liam Neeson, Ralph (pronounced "Ray-f") Fiennes, Ben Kingsley... they were all wonderful. Neeson's protrayal of Oskar subtley weaves his character into our minds, so, right from the beginning, we can know precisely what he is thinking. Kingsley is wonderful, if, at times, too subdued, as Schindler's Jewish accountant. Itzhak Stern was a hero in his own right. I wish more of the movie had centered around him, but then, 3+ hours is enough already, I suppose. Fiennes, as Kommandant Amon Goeth, is sublime in his madness. He is truly evil, but none one-dimensionally so. Although he is quite obviously a vicious, heartless murderer, I felt that the movie could have gone deeper, exploring his deteriorating mental state. In fact, if I have one overall complaint, it would be that the supporting cast, which, really, is everyone except Schindler, is not focused on intensely enough. Their lives before the events in the story aren't delved into enough. Especially the Jews saved by Schindler, the Schindlerjuden. Although, to be fair, they are the center of much of the movie's focus, and some give just as magnetic performances as the main characters. Regardless, Spielberg's direction is masterful here. I'm certain that the connection the viewer has with Schindler is due in no small part to his coaching. Although this is a violent drama about the horrors of genocide and hate, something that could only have been made properly in our decade, there are shots in this movie that are so very reminiscent of movies of the 1940's, which, incidentally, is when this was based. The shot of the train toward the end, carrying the women on it, was something so ... huge, for lack of a better term, I have no doubt it sprung from Spielberg's favorite film, Lawrence of Arabia. Some of the shots are just so graceful and stylish that you are almost convinced that this movie WAS MADE in the 1940's. Others, appropriately, are as viceral and shocking as any seen in film before. Not to be outdone, is John Williams' score. The choirs singing "Requiem" never sounded more bone-chilling. The main theme is a thing of mournful beauty. This film, is the most powerful of the last two decades, and, inarguably, the most respected. Why? Every other film has a moment that has entered our pop culture. "Rosebud...","Here's looking at you, Kid","I'll make him an offer he can't refuse...","Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn," and so on. Schindler's List is perhaps that sole exception that gets past our soundbytes, cynicisms, and catch phrases, and becomes something else entirely: Fine, pure, truthful... Art.
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