Forever Young (Snap Case)
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Movie Reviews of Forever Young (Snap Case)
Movie Review: Better romantic and die than pathetically mute
Summary: 5 Stars
A very touching film because of some extremely sentimental and poignant elements. The girl that holds your heart and to whom you cannot propose crosses a road and gets hit by a truck. Coma..., irreversible..., they say. Better get frozen for later than live through this death. Frozen by some doctor who dies and leaves you behind and you are abandoned in a hangar. A couple of naughty boys revive you and then the real nightmare starts. They all believe you are nuts of course, except the mother of one of the boys, a nurse by profession he saves from an ex-whatever who wants to rape her. Finding your identity after 53 years in ice, that's hard. But there is a slight problem with Dorian Gray's picture. You are the picture and your age shows fast. Will he find and marry his sweetheart and is she still alive? Will he escape the cops and the doctors? Who knows? What will the little boy who revived him do? Nothing to say here. Just keep in mind this film is a piece of romantic beauty and that's all. The visit of the air force base I remember I must have done it in the same period, around 1990, one or two years more or less. That was a funny experience and I would have loved meeting Mel Gibson in one of the jets. But well no luck boy. Mel Gibson is nothing but a celluloid baby who has no real existence and his life is a dream and in this case the dream could have turned into a nightmare. Mel Gibson is a very flexible actor and manages romantic situations or situations with kids just as well as he does mad situations with Max and his tribe, not to speak of the mythic religious rewriting of the passion or the whole cosmos. There is something like a certain Connors and Schwarzenegger in that Gibson, even if he is a difficult spouse to get a divorce from. Back to the future then.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, University Paris 8 Saint Denis, University Paris 12 Créteil, CEGID
Movie Review: Touching and Sentimental
Summary: 5 Stars
"Forever Young" is the story of a test pilot who, after seeing the love of his life knocked comatose by a produce truck in 1939, volunteers for a cryogenics experiment that results in his losing more than a half century of his life.His desire to find out what happened to all of his lost years takes him back to the neighborhood where he used to live 53 years earlier, where he encounters the two boys who accidentally thawed him, and along the way, we discover how much he and one of the boys have in common.--Big blue eyes, sandy brown hair, a love of flying, and a taste for redhaired members of the opposite sex around whom neither could get up the courage to express their true feelings. A possible romance with the boy's single mother ensues. But ultimately, Captain Daniel McCormack is led back to his soulmate in one of the sweetest scenes in recent film history. For me, the questions this promted included, "Would Daniel prefer to be called historically challenged or decade impaired?" and "How much back pay would the military give him?" But all in all, this is my favorite sci-fi movie to date, and I'm not that big a fan of the genre. Mel Gibson gives a touching performance, and his love of children shines through from beginning to end (inevitably since he was the father of six at the time and now has seven). Jamie Lee Curtis was good as the tart-tounged nurse who gives Daniel a rude awakening to certain aspects of late 20th century life, and so was Nicholas Surovy as Curtis' befuddled suitor and colleague. Isabel Glasser shines as Daniel's love interest.--A woman we feel he is so lucky to have won back. The whole cast did a fine job.It's one of my favorite Gibson movies, and I would highly recommend this modern version of Rip Van Wynkle to anyone.Movie Review: One of my favorite movies
Summary: 5 Stars
For me this movie is a masterpiece, the best perfomance Mel Gibson has done in his all career along with braveheart and conspiracy theory, i think, and sorry for my english, i am fronm Ecuador, that is a movie where you can find real love. Gibson loves the woman, but it is so funny when he was at that coffee triying to find how to tell her to married him. When this two kids took him away from the freezer, he just want to find the way to reach his girfliend from a long time ago. In the meantime que he is introduced to Jammie Lee Curtis and there is a scene that i love and it is my favorite, it`s when they kissed toghether, but there were no really in love, it was an honorable moment that Jammie Lee Curtis gives to the movie. He just wanted to make him feel better, because he was so depressed. I loved the movie. With TAXI DRIVER, DOG DAY AFTERNOON, MEN OF HONOR, AMERICAN HISTORY X, THE THIN RED LINE and LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL ARE MY FAVORITE ALL TIME MOVIESMovie Review: Corny, Silly, and all that.... but still a great love story
Summary: 5 Stars
OK, this film is silly. Guy in love, scared to pop the question; girl hit by a truck (literally), goes into a coma; guy decides life not worth living so volunteers for the first-ever (top secret!!!) cryogenics experiment. Wakes up 53 years later, discovers the world has forgotten about him, but he has not forgotten anything; especially not his one true love and his best (only) friend.
So, dimiss the movie on the altar of "ridiculous, not realistic at all..."
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Enjoy a beautifully made love story of human beings (and planes...) that works at multiple levels. The scene where Daniel (Gibson) teaches Nat (Wood) to fly is simply one of the best "romance" scenes ever filmed by Hollywood (in the truest sense of the word "romance", see [...]).
The only truly wrong note in the movie is the ending, so quit about 45 seconds before the end, if you can. Till then, sit back and enjoy.
Movie Review: Great romance
Summary: 5 Stars
I had never seen this movie before purchasing it, but it was only upon the first viewing that I fell in love with the sweet romance with all of its devotion. There is true emotion in this movie, from romance to friendship to family and everything inbetween, all combined with a delightful little bit of very realistic science fiction that makes this fantastical story believable, if not necessarily plausible--hence the fantasy. This is in Mel Gibson's glory days, where we can stare at his handsomeness as he plays a common man, a pilot... who finds himself waking up after decades frozen in time. Jamie Lee Curtis is making the most of her own romantic days, and the chemistry between her and Gibson is commendable. Still, it is the story itself that makes this movie truly enchanting.