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Movie Reviews of Always
Movie Review: The air is full of surprises
Summary: 5 Stars
Now this I stumbled across at the library. I didn't expect much of it, there were only three reasons I got it. One: I really like flying. Two: it had Richard Dreyfuss in it, one of my favorite underrated actors, and Three: An appearance by the lovable Audrey Hepburn. After watching it, I knew I had to have it. You'll like it too. The acting is superb by some of the greatest actors of our time. A surprising movie that will definitely keep your interest soaring.Fires are raging out of control in the forest. As one of the particapants of the containing of the fires, Pete (the likeable Richard Dreyfuss) is torn between his true loves, his tomboy girlfriend, Dorrinda (the beautiful Holly Hunter), and his career. His choices would be made too soon. When his friend Al (John Goodman, hilarious as ever) is in danger when his plane engine catches fire, Pete heads for the rescue, only to get killed himself.
Not aware that anything has happened to him, he meets up with a strange yet kind angel named Hap (Audrey Hepburn's last role) who tells him what really happens. Pete has one more duty to do before leaving Earth. Hap gives gim an assignment, six months after his death, of helping a rookie fire fighter pilot named Ted (Brad Johnson in his first movie) in the ways of getting the job. Things don't go too well for Ted, for it is obvious he has a lot of work to do after dumping red fire retardent all over Al. Things begin to go for Ted, but bad for Pete as he begins to fall in love with Dorrinda. Pete soon realizes that he has to help Ted with his blossoming relationship with Dorrinda, his firefighting carrer, and that it's not his time anymore, and that life must go on, for them anyway.
I loved the movie from the start and immediately purchased it. Some people may not like it, but it is their choice. I will Always love this movie, and I suggest it to anyone who needs a little drama, and laughter rolled together in a movie. 5 stars to a great Spielberg movie once again.
Movie Review: a little bit of everything for everyone
Summary: 5 Stars
I didn't think of this movie as strictly a fantasy, or a romantic film. The story was entirely possible to happen in reality, with a pilot unable to lift his airplane away from danger as a burning forest ignites the motor in the plane (and leads to the plane going down). This movie had plenty of sad moments, and moments you were hoping the characters would find a way to escape the danger they were facing. Sometimes they escaped, other times they didn't.
The story mainly focuses on one man who died in an airplane accident, and a few months after he dies, he has to come back as an angel and help his girlfriend and her new boyfriend (who also happened to take an interest in the same kind of airplane job involving planes flying over forests and putting out fires).
Many times the guy who died would whisper in the ears of the people he was trying to get a message across to, and every time he said something, his thoughts would be put into the heads of the people he was trying to communicate with. This was very interesting and made you really wish he was able to talk face to face with the people instead of trying to get a message across through brain thoughts.
Overall, some very good emotional moments mixed with adventure and fantasy makes this a family movie well worth watching.
Movie Review: An underrated classic
Summary: 5 Stars
I really enjoy this movie. The cast was fabulous. This was Audrey Hepburn's last appearance on the big screen as well, in a role as "Hap", the angel who Pete (Richard Dreyfuss) first encounters after dying from his plane exploding.Holly Hunter shines as Dorinda, Pete's girlfriend, who tries to come to terms with Pete dying. John Goodman is also funny and loveable as Al, one of the pilot trainers.
I was really disappointed when "Ghost" (although Ghost is a good movie in and of itself too) came out a little while later, because it seemed to have stolen many themes from "Always", such as male lead having problems saying "I love you", male lead being able to have an influence on surviving loved ones after dying, lead female being able to be told eventually "I love you by lead male. Ghost seemed to get more of the rave reviews and sentimental following than Always, because it was a "sexier" movie. acted by "handsomer" actors. Always was told more like a fairy tale. Anyway, I digress.
I found this movie to be magical and I really enjoyed it.
Movie Review: Charming Movie of an Honest Spirit
Summary: 5 Stars
Wildland fire air-attack pilot dies in an airplane explosion and is dispatched back to earth by an angel to mentor a rookie pilot. Pete (Richard Dreyfuss)is the spiritual coach and he is not entirely confident about his mission, but he gives it a try and soon gets more than he bargained for when the girlfriend (Holly Hunter) he left behind begins to fall in love with his student. Pete tries to derail the affair with his angelic power, but instead learns about true love when his girlfriend contemplates death in a suicidal air mission to rescue smokejumpers trapped by a massive wildland fire.
This is one of Steven Spielbergs's more humble movies, a contemporary remake of "A Guy Named Joe," and it is a charming and humorous story. John Goodman is Pete's lovable best friend as the air-attack school commander, and Audrey Hepburn has a very nice role as Pete's supervisory angel. The movie features a beautiful backdrop of forest wilderness with wildland fires combatted by smokejumpers and World War II-era attack bombers.
Movie Review: Spielberg magic
Summary: 5 Stars
Nice story, adapted from an earlier film, plus a great cast makes this a good, old-fashioned, enjoyable movie.
Richard Dreyfuss and Holly Hunter are wonderful as the couple whose love is the subject of this story. The chemistry is terrific; the scene where she dances with him in her white dress, after he returns to visit her after his death is amazing. John Goodman is solid in his important supporting role. I've read little mention of Brad Johnson, as the handsome guy who replaces Dreyfuss in Hunter's life. I thought he was true heart-throb material and wonder whatever happened to him. It was delightful to see the lovely Audrey Hepburn playing an angel, a perfect role for her.
Not a modern, cynical view of life which is unfortunately popular among cineasts today, but if you don't mind being unfashionable and just want pure, heart-felt enjoyment, then you'll love this film.