Great movie, great price!
Added 4/1/2009
My order made it all the way to Alaska in just a few days! Thank you so much for the quality service!
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Unsatisfying, horrible casting and acting, don't just give MI a pass
Added 9/5/2008
I have to agree with the negative reviewers here, I have not read the book but books are always better than movies period. I hate these english actors that are cast as Americans, Beckinsale and Bale are the two prime examples but there are many more.
The acting was universally bad here as well, Nolte seems very wooden in particular but Beckinsale is not far behind, the only decent acting was by Uma Thurman.
This felt like an incomplete study throughout, by far the worst MI movie I've seen. MI should stick with the English Victorian/Edwardian periods that is it's forte and leave everything else to those who would know better. I'm glad this was a rental for me, not worth more than that.
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'The Golden Bowl"
Added 12/24/2007
Look deeply into this movie as you watch it. There's a very important message in it. It still applies today. We have to be careful with other people's lives. When you really love someone, whether it be a parent, child or spouse, we would go to great, personal, lengths, to spare them the pain of the truth.
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Avoid this one
Added 9/9/2007
A warning, to all who enjoy fine movies, and especially to anyone who reads Henry James with pleasure: this movie is a horror, badly written, dismally acted (as if by teenage amateurs), melodramatic and superficial and vulgar, at times even cartoonish in the famous Merchant Ivory settings. James's psychological penetration is difficult to capture in a film, but an infinitely superior job was done 30 years ago in the BBC version with Cyril Cusack, unfortunately only available now on used VCR -- a performance too quiet for today's clamorous market, but quite superb.
As for this one, centered on the clumsy inept performances of Beckinsale and Thurman, unless you can see it as a very clever satiric send-up of its own genre and of American wealth and "culture", the only reason to watch it is to see just how bad an ambitious and expensive film can be. If you haven't that perverse interest, avoid it.
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Does not go anywhere
Added 8/11/2007
Golden Bowl is beautifully photographed and actors are wonderful. I had seen it on the big screen before, but it still does not go anywhere. Seems the story has no meaning. I adore period films, especially British ones.
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Great movie, great price!
Added 4/1/2009
My order made it all the way to Alaska in just a few days! Thank you so much for the quality service!
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Unsatisfying, horrible casting and acting, don't just give MI a pass
Added 9/5/2008
I have to agree with the negative reviewers here, I have not read the book but books are always better than movies period. I hate these english actors that are cast as Americans, Beckinsale and Bale are the two prime examples but there are many more.
The acting was universally bad here as well, Nolte seems very wooden in particular but Beckinsale is not far behind, the only decent acting was by Uma Thurman.
This felt like an incomplete study throughout, by far the worst MI movie I've seen. MI should stick with the English Victorian/Edwardian periods that is it's forte and leave everything else to those who would know better. I'm glad this was a rental for me, not worth more than that.
0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
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'The Golden Bowl"
Added 12/24/2007
Look deeply into this movie as you watch it. There's a very important message in it. It still applies today. We have to be careful with other people's lives. When you really love someone, whether it be a parent, child or spouse, we would go to great, personal, lengths, to spare them the pain of the truth.
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