T.W.M.O.E. (THE WORST MOVIE ON EARTH)
Added 9/27/2009
This movie stunk!! This movie was horrible with a capital "H"!! I will never watch it again! Depressing and weird! There wasn't even 1 single part of this movie I enjoyed! After all the great reviews, and my friends telling me it was good, I thought I would be in for a charming period romance. HAH!!! Not so! Nicholas Nickelby. It should have been called "The depressing horrible year". That's what it felt like watching this movie. It was long, depressing, and miserable! One word could sum this movie up...
"AWFUL".
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This is my favorite adaptation of a Dicken's Story
Added 8/17/2009
This is a rich film filled with all the usual Dickens flourishes including and most significant, loss and redemption. But what sets this film apart is the supremely excellent job that the casting director did to assemble the most perfect collection of actors. Every major and supporting role is filled with marvelous people who bring a wonderful richness to the production. Every scene is compelling and interesting. If you haven't seen it. You should rent this film immediately. But my true recommendation is to buy it. I have watched it around every three years or so and expect that I will continue to do so into perpetuity. You will love it. You have my word.
Nicholas Nickleby
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Pretty good, but not quite Grand
Added 6/24/2009
As a movie loving-(English) movie loving fan from the colonies-across the big pond, I like to get a monthly dose of a good BBC or English drama. And this movie: Nicholas Nickleby was a pretty good "almost". It's the kind of movie that one would want to see once a year instead of once a week or once a month. A little bit on the dark and worldly side, but it still manages to fit in a nice little love story and portrays the harsh realities of the day. I liked the main characters Jamie bell and Anne Hathaway, but especially Jamie's good upstanding moral steadiness, a real Man's role. Anne played her part well, (not hard being beautiful) and if the story line had gone another way, it might have been fabulous. I could have easily given this 4 stars, but the worldliness at the beginning and the dark-harsh cruelties of the childrens school violence and Plummers character made it too heavy. Overall, it's worth buying and watching, but.....it's won't make the weekly or monthly rotation of fun English films...Love ya
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Can't Do The Book Justice In A Movie Format
Added 6/5/2009
The quality of the movie itself was great, but this story just doesn't fit into a movie time frame. (The Royal Shakespeare Company stage version produced by A&E is 9 hours long - and they skip some parts to move the story along.) Listening to the audio book version while walking or driving is the way to go to experience the whole story if you don't have the time to read the book. The movie did a great job of representing the characters, but they are just snapshots compared to the book.
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Atrocious and Boring
Added 5/15/2009
One of the reasons why I love Dickens but I hate Oliver Twist is because Oliver Twist is TOO good. There's too much of the innocent child who is never besmirched by the criminals around him and never thinks of committing any crimes. He's one of the most irritating deadly dull characters in fiction. Not even the more interesting Artful Dodger or Fagin can save him. Granted, Slumdog Millionaire proved that basic story of an innocent staying innocent through poverty and corruption is still compelling (especially when the main character actually DOES steal to live) but Oliver Twist is still my least favorite Dickens book.
Until now. Well, actually I have the book. It might be better than this. However, I don't have high hopes. Like Oliver Twist, the main character is deadly dull. He's virtuous. He always does the right thing. He even has a sister to protect. And it doesn't help matters that the actor playing him is one of the most wooden actors I've seen in a long time. He looks like Heath Ledger and he's playing the kind of part that Heath Ledger would have played at the time; but he's nowhere near as charismatic as Ledger was in A Knights Tale - Movie Poster - 11 x 17. He's dull. And he's peevish. And the entire movie rests on the audience relating to him.
We don't.
The sad part of the movie is the amount of talent that surrounds him. Anne Hathaway is the girlfriend. Jim Broadbent is the comically evil orphanage manager. Christopher Plummer is the seriously evil uncle. Nathan Lane is the theater manager. And they are all really trying to get the most out of their roles. But every single one of them must bow to the black hole of non-personality that is the main actor. And don't get me started on the terrible music that is from the film score standards of uplifting music. And like all canned uplifting music, it's almost as dull as the main actor.
There are other versions of Nicholas Nickleby out there, including one with the always beautiful Sophia Myles, but I will wait until I read the book to see if it's any good. It could be good, but from this movie, I doubt it.
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