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| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Alfonso Arau |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 13 January, 2002 |
| MANUFACTURER: | A & E Home Video |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Color |
| TYPE: | Feature Film-drama |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 733961703405 |
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Customer Reviews of The Magnificent Ambersons
Disappointing If you were hoping for "The Magnificent Ambersons" that should have been, way back when, it didn't happen here. This version of the Magnificent Ambersons had the advantage of Orson Welles orignial script, but unfortunately not his direction. The tone is never really set. Even without reading the interviews in which Stowe (Isabelle) gives Arau negative reviews you can see she is lost.
Gretchen Mol (Lucy), and William Hootkins (Uncle George) come out best. Bruce Greenwood (Eugene) has his moments. I normally like Jennifer Tilly (Fanny) but she was overwrought and all wrong here. Jonathan Rhys Meyers seems out of his depth. He's so glaring, huffy, and self aggrandizing that you can't see why Lucy would fall for him.
I hope we do not have to wait another 60 years for a better attempt.
Excellent Performance
This movie was extremely well acted. George Amberson was a rather strange main character in my opinion. Most of the time, a person feels inclined to take the main character's side, but in this case, I definitely felt like he was a rather disagreeable character up until the end. Jonathan Rhys-Meyers was an excellent villian/hero. His poor mother, played by Madeleine Stowe, was constantly bullied by her overbearing, selfish, and extremely arrogant son. In fact, he bullied just about everyone who came into contact with him. His Uncle George puts it well towards the end of the film, "Georgie, I have always been fond of you, but I haven't always liked you." While this film is rather bittersweet, it's definitely something worth watching. It's interesting to see what happpens to a young man who has always had the best of everything and then when his grandfather dies, realizes that he has to live like the people he used to see and call "riffraff." It's about this time he seems to develop some sort of conscience about his past actions and how he treats others. It's a slow realization, but he does come to it. I think this film actually shows how many people of that rank felt at the time, that their wealth would last forever and they need never work for it. Many of them lost almost everything later on when the older family members, who had been the only ones dealing with the finances, finally died and are quick to find that there is nothing left except debts that can't be paid. So if you want to see an excellently played film with an equally excellent script, I recommend this film.
WONDERFUL
A very brilliantly acted and sad movie. Jonathon Ryss Meyers does it again! He was excellent in the movie VELVET GOLDMINE and he is also good in this role as well. Jennifer Tilly is also good. Jonathon is a very talented and good looking new actor. I recomend all his films.