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Summary: Good acting . . . Bad movie
Review: Is it possible to have a great cast that gives great performances and have a bad movie? Yes it is . . . and this is it. My recommendation - see most anything else (I nearly feel asleep).
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Summary: Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Review: The Hours has an audience in people who share the void suffered by its characters. That void is where a life is supposed to be. If you are one of these people, then get a life. The rest of us found The Hours unforgivably dull.
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Summary: I Had To Leave the Movie Too.
Review: This is the only movie my husband and I have ever walked out of. I had waited all year for this movie to be released and was so excited when I sat down to watch it. Widescreen, standard screen whatever screen, it doesn't matter, because you'll be watching the back of your eyelids. The only reason we stayed 45 minutes into the movie is because I was desparately waiting for it to get better. It's just flat out weird, boring, and I would say that studying Nicole Kidman's nose is about the only thing for which you'll be watching. I recently bought the book in hopes that it will be better. Poor Virginia Wolfe's posthumous career has not been enhanced by this film.
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Summary: Hollywood's self-indulgent mess
Review: Yes, it's Virginia Wolfe, and yes it's Streep, Kidman and Moore, all very well respected actors. But COME ON! I hated it. It's so DEEP that one is supposed to bow down and grovel at its' inner meaning and mensa level plot. Kidman was better in Days of Thunder and Eye Wide Shut (that statement was sarcasm for those who weren't sure).Oh well, I've never felt the impulse to write one of these reviews before but I just felt compelled to air my feelings. I absolutely love the movies. I am seduced by good plots and great characterizations. This was boring and tedious. Don't waste your time or money unless you need to have something to chat about at your next afternoon tea in the Hamptons.
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Summary: Interesting
Review: This movie would be worth watching for the incredible performances alone. I have nothing but the highest respect for Nicole Kidman as an actress, and donning a fake nose to tone down her pretty face was a wonderful choice. Julianne Moore, who I believe was the real star of this film, just goes to show how dialogue is secondary to body language and facial expressions. She says very little, but she carrys the film. Meryl Streep, of course, does an excellent job as well - her breakdown with in the kitchen was very believable. And you know the acting must be good with a supporting cast like Claire Danes, Ed Harris, and John C. Riley, all of whom do incredible, incredible jobs.
This is a movie of atmosphere, of characters. It has hardly any action at all - buying flowers becomes a big event. The whole mood of the movie is dark - not exactly depressed, but teetering on the edge. These women haven't exactly given up, but they are close to breaking, and so is the viewer.
Perhaps the best thing about this movie was the ending. One woman said "Well that was just depressing." In actuality, I think this film was very uplifting, almost life-affirming. "The poet." Says Virginia, "The poet must die, so that others can better appreciate life."
I didn't really care for the lesbian overtones, but they weren't too bad. This is not a movie for a good time, or a laugh. "The Hours" is a very deep, thinking movie that takes a certain kind of person to appreciate it. If, however, you are one of those people who like to probe the depths of the human soul, then you won't be disappointed in "The Hours".
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Summary: NOT a LESBIAN film
Review: The person who said this was a lesbian film is sorely mistaken. There's much more to this film than lesbianism; however, I would not recommend this film to anyone who doesn't like "highbrow" period pieces that make you think. The only thing I did not like about this film was the child role. The kid who played it gets my nomination as the worst child actor in history.
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Summary: The Big Ugly Nose That Changes Colors in the Light
Review: As much as I have appreciate prior works of each of these actors, I had no sympathy for any of them. I found them selfish, depressing, neurotic and I did not care if they lived or died except the little boy who ended up jumping out of the window. I could identify. Someone needed to put all of them out of their misery. When Meryl Streep started making out with her roommate, I was about to jump out the window and decided instead to turn it off and return it to the nearest video store ASAP.
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Summary: Boring and depressing
Review: It's a depressing movie about a mental illness that makes one desire to commit suicide. I found nothing inspirational about the movie because the characters did nothing to change their situation. The movie attempts to philosophize about life and happiness. Noone should take that seriously because it's coming from a mentally ill person. The message is don't cherish life and it took all of two hours to deliver it.
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Summary: I had to leave in the middle of the movie
Review: I've never had to do that with a movie before, I can usually cope. But the gloomy, dark, hopeless aptmosphere populated by a bunch of disgustingly self absorbed women and terminally ill people was too much for me. In the new York story, I winced looking at the face of the actor playing opposite Meryl Streep, and the obvious pain he was in both physically and psychologically. He had a great makeup artist too, he looked like death walking.
Meryl Streep added to the brooding aptmosphere by throwing a party for him that no one, including him or her really wanted to take place. It gave me this distinct feeling of dread to contemplate where this entire situation was headed. In appreciation of her efforts he rubs his intense desire to die and end his pain in her face. The story revolved around their failed relationship, and their bitter compensational relationships afterwards.
Time for Julianne Moore. She is throwing a party for her husband but she is too disturbed to even bake a cake properly. Ding Dong, it's her friend at the door announcing that she found a lump in her breast and she may have cancer. They proceed to comfort each other and end up making out in front of Julianne's 5 or six year old son.
On to Virginia. I don't know much about who she was and I have never read any of her books so I can't comment on the ingenious tying together of the three stories. I plead ignorance in this, and if in doing so, I have lost so much of the story to make this review have any value at all, please excuse me. The movie introduces her to us throwing rocks in her dress and wading into a river. Her instability is obvious and her narrative, as far as I have scene is populated by scenes of death (the classic dead bird) and so on.
Maybe I left too soon, but this movie seemed too sad and futile to continue to be worth the 7 dollars I paid to see it. It is interesting maybe only for the sad and futile feeling it evokes. I have no interest in ever watching it again. It was Pandora's box, closed way too late. Hope just flew away over the horizon and left us with this dark, brooding monstrosity.
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Summary: Don't even bother
Review: For those of you who like Lesbian movies, this will be great for you. This is one of the worst movies I have ever seen. Boring! Don't waste your money.
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