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Movie Reviews of Far and Away
Movie Review: Far and Away
Summary: 5 Stars
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Summary: 4 Stars
First of all, this is a beautiful movie. Other reviews have captured the basic storyline, and so I won't go into that much here. The ending did surprise me the first time I saw this movie and I didn't like it (even though it is a happy ending) and wasn't going to buy the movie as a result. However, the more I thought about the movie, the more I realized the ending really fit with the rest of the movie and shouldn't have been such a trial of my suspension of disbelief. The bottom line is that this movie makes me happy. When I watch it I feel fantastic. It shows us a fictional success story in a historical setting. Its dialogue is at times very witty, and never dull.
The DVD picture quality is beautiful.
This love story is so much better than some others out there because their relationship develops over time. It feels so much more real. This is probably helped by the fact that Tom and Nicole were married then. They interacted very well. Part of what I personally like, too, is how Joseph (Tom) treats Shannon (Nicole) so tenderly - with the exception of dumping her in the bathtub fully clothed! But he was definitely provoked!
I was disappointed about the deleted scenes. They didn't even have an option to see those scenes separately, like many dvds do. Here are the ones I noticed. Most importantly, the "crazy Mick" scenes were deleted. You still see the explosions from making way for the railroad, but they left out the parts where the foreman needs someone to do a dangerous job, and asks for the "crazy Mick" (Joseph), because he has been willing to do it. They deleted the scene where Joseph finds a job shoveling rocks and will work for less than the other men and then Shannon joins in and helps him (that was after they were kicked out of their room). It showed their desperation and I'm sorry they left it out. They deleted the scene where Shannon actually quits her work at the chicken factory and the workers applaud her. They deleted the scene with Steven on the hilltop in Ireland writing a letter to Shannon although he doesn't know where to mail it and Shannon's father says something about hating to see a young man so miserable over love. Nothing else of major importance was deleted.
But they left so much in that is worth seeing. You take the journey with Shannon and Joseph from Ireland to a cruise ship to the boxing matches in Boston to developing railroads to racing for land in the Oklahoma territory. You journey with them from riches to poverty to wealth of a kind again. You journey with them as they grow personally. Fantastic movie!
Movie Review: No day, no night ,no moment can hold them back from trying
Summary: 4 Stars
Then-husband and wife Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman headlined this 1992 Ron Howard release. Joseph Donnelly (Cruise) is the headstrong brother of a family of tenant farmers, who finds himself on the boat to America after he originally went to his landlord's mannor to avenge his father's death.
Donnelly does not initially realize that Mr. Christie is actually a likeable (if absent minded) fellow, and it is his family associates who are responsible for the murder and the home burning. These Protestants look down upon the Catholic Donnellys (among many other families) as being beneath them.
While there, he meets their daughter Shannon, a firebrand self-described modern woman who would do ANYTHING to avoid ending up like her mother's stuffy Victorian friends. From ridding fast to wearing free clothes, Shannon wants much more out of life than what she originally had. When she teams up with Joseph, she gets it.
After her spoons are convieniently stolen upon arrival in America, Shannon comes to the painful realization that she does not know what to do. She is now in the position of having to learn survival skills from Joseph (who poses as her brother) if she is going to make it out to Oklahoma.
Sure, improbabilities abound in this film (Cruise hangs out with brothel girls in an age before the ready availability of condoms, but never gets venereal disease, Shannon and her family are magically reunited in Boston even after she wanted nothing to do with them and did not appear to know their new address, and Mr. Christie himself has no problems pulling his own weight in America while the rest of his family had not known how to do these things).
An excellent camera panning, a generally good script, and the hit 'book of days' by Enya easily compensate for any flaws. You become so involved in this film that the screenplay length ultimately does not matter. Well-crafted suprises maintain interest in the entire story.
Cruise and Kidman's off-screen romance is by now a distant memory, but this film will keep your own passions burning brightly.
Movie Review: Far and Away - Even the excellent critics can be way wrong
Summary: 4 Stars
Far and Away is a movie that I first saw in theater on its opening weekend and it blew me away. It is not only visually stunning and beautifully filmed it has a pure spirit of humanity and truly inspired performances. As much as I respect and rely upon excellent critics like Roger Ebert for their guiding light, I think they have truly missed something. Just like a few other comments that ring true, were they watching and absorbing the same movie. To rate this movie as mediocre is ludicrous. In some ways, I cannot believe that I find myself writing this review and having to defend an excellent movie. OK so lets get to the heart of it. The film captures your interest from the first scene to the last scene. The dialogue may not be the greatest screenplay ever written but it allows the actors to put their true spirit to make these characters so real. The chemistry is not just between Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman in that the entire cast is so well selected and hit their marks. The story may not be complex but it is a classic story. Is Titantic considered "weak" because we understand the characters and their emotions so clearly. Sometimes critics just over analyze a movie and forget to let their emotions be the more accurate measurement device for the value of a film and the positive spirt it brings to its audience.This performance by Tom Cruise is very strong and I absolutely love the chemistry with Nicole Kidman who truly is Shannon. I rated this moviee 5 stars to make the statement that "I love the spirt of this movie" and to offset any low rating delivered by "intellectual" movie critcs.When movie critics demand to stay on their "high horse" and complain of lack of story or it is too simple, It is time for others to use their voice to bring them back to reality. Art is truly in the eye of the beholder and we should not be bound by rules that limit imagination and emotion. Far and Away in watching it again today in High Definition in my opinion stands the test of time. I loved seeing it again.Movie Review: No chemistry ... Bad Irish accents ... But a great movie
Summary: 4 Stars
By the time this movie was released, Tom & Nicole were well on their way to become Hollywood's Hottest Couple. If you've seen their first movie together, Days Of Thunder, where they met and fell in love (big awwwwww everyone) then you'll know there's a lot of chemistry between them. However, in Far & Away, there's virtually no chemistry between them, and there's even less in their third & final film, Eyes Wide Shut. Before movies like Fight Club came along, there were some very graphic boxing scenes in this, bare knuckle fist-fighting, which makes you wince. Of course, there has to be a time the ex-lovely Tom doesn't win - and he gets really badly hurt.
The Irish accents get a little dubious, especially when Tom starts yelling, you can totally hear his natural accent slipping through. The rest aren't so bad most of the time, but Tom's is almost as bad as Keanu Reeves' extremely bad English accent in Bram Stoker's Dracula.
There are some very obvious sexual scenes between them, but the couple hardly kiss or anything - there's lots of naked butts (Tom's) and naked waists (Nicole's). But not much else. This could have been spiced up with some sex, but that was left for Eyes Wide Shut.
There's also a very strange scene, which could be taken one way or the other. It's the scene after Joseph loses, and gets beaten up, and goes back to where he was staying with Shannon, and finds his ex-boss in the room with her. She's still dressed, but in tears, and it just hit me that something else could have happened. Maybe this wasn't the intention, maybe it's just my mind!
There are some pretty cheesy lines in this, but you just ignore this, and watch the beautiful scenery and listen to the equally beautiful soundtrack.
This isn't the best Tom & Nicole movie, due to lack of chemistry, and I definitely wouldn't recommend Eyes Wide Shut. I still love this movie, but if you can ignore the car racing nonsense, then definitely see Days Of Thunder.