Cannery Row
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Movie Reviews of Cannery Row
Movie Review: Good movie worth seeing
Summary: 4 Stars
If you can't stand movies with a narrator don't bother. but it's a great movie if you do. just enough humor and not a deep story line. just a fun movie.Movie Review: A suggestion to Tom Keogh
Summary: 4 Stars
Dear Tom Keogh, re: your review, verisimilitude? egregious contrivances? Just a suggestion to you: get the hell over yourself.Movie Review: Entertaining movie, but grave disservice to the book and to Doc
Summary: 2 Stars
I loved hanging out on Cannery Row during the year that I was stationed at the Presidio of Monterey. During my first week in the barracks there, one of my 35 'roommates' handed me a well worn copy of Steinbeck's book and said 'Here. You ought to read this.' I read it and it immediately became one of my favorite books. I eagerly looked forward to seeing the movie Cannery Row when it came out in the early 80's, but I was greatly disappointed when the movie turned out to be based mostly on the book Sweet Thursday rather than Cannery Row, and the extraordinarily interesting character Doc had been reduced to a retired baseball player, rather than the world-class marine biologist who ultimately inspired the creation of the Monterey Bay Aquarium, and who loved to listen to Gregorian Chant and the music of J.S.Bach and William Byrd. (I first heard the etherial opening strains of Byrd's 'Mass for Five Voices' in the barracks at Monterey when a fellow soldier bought a recording of Byrd's music in order to know more about Doc's taste in music).
I also remember experiencing an unpleasant time warp when I recognized that some of the movie's incidental music was written in the same style as the sign-off music of the local TV station . . . from a third of a century later than when the book was written. Finally, Doc's decision to get married at the end of the movie was jarringly abrupt, completely out of sync with the spirit of the book, and thoroughly out of character for Doc. If some studio exec was demanding a happily-ever-after ending, it should have been Doc and Suzy going off on a road trip and ordering a beer milkshake with two straws.
Movie Review: DVD disaster
Summary: 1 Stars
The original film was in beautiful widescreen. The DVD is cropped and therefore should be avoided--a disaster and a shame that Warner Bros. couldn't show proper respect to a beautiful film. Don't waste your money on this.