Giant (Two-Disc Special Edition) (Keepcase)
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Movie Reviews of Giant (Two-Disc Special Edition) (Keepcase)
Movie Review: Alex's review
Summary: 5 Stars
I love this classical movie, but I'd wish it had closed captions so I can watch it without disturbing others. Movie Review: This is the giant, land I love !!
Summary: 5 Stars
I was delighted to locate this hard to find movie. Ordering was easy an
delivery time was perfect. Greatest movie ever about Texas.
Movie Review: It is a Giant!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an Awesome movie. Unfortunately they don't make movies like this anymore and that is a shame. DanaMovie Review: Very Good Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an excellent movie for the entire family. It touches issues of racism, feminism,class and family dynamics. Visually great!Movie Review: How Little The World Changes
Summary: 5 Stars
I have seen the movie "Giant" three times now and am always surprised at how well it holds up each time I see it. Although it is almost three hours and a half in length, the time passes quickly. Based on Edna Ferber's novel by the same name and directed by George Stevens who won the 1956 Oscar as best director, the film, set in the first half of this century covers two generations of Texans: rancher Bick Benedict (Rock Hudson), his feisty wife Leslie (Elizabeth Taylor), and their children played by Carol Baker and Dennis Hopper. We should not forget James Dean as Jeff Rink in this his great but final role before his death at 23. Mercedes McCambridge also plays Bick's no-nonsense sister Luz and a very young Sal Mineo plays Angel, the Mexican worker at Bick's ranch, the Reata, who goes off to fight in World War II.
Everything about this film is big: its length, the landscape-- much of it beautifully photographed-- and certainly stars with the physical attractiveness of Taylor, Hudson and Dean are bigger than we, the sublunaries. The plot is both grand and straightforward. Bick falls in love with Leslie at first sight, takes her from her home in Maryland-- where he has gone to buy a horse from her father-- to his huge spead in Texas. There she struggles with male attitudes towards both women and children-- husbands should be lord of their castles and the owners of both their wives and children-- as well as the prevailing racism lodged at Mexicans and Mexican Americans. For my money, Rock Hudson is a far better actor than critics usually are willing to admit. Elizabeth Taylor of course plays the Southern belle role, the steel magnolia, that she repeated again and again until she finally almost because a caricature. James Dean makes us wonder about what kind of great actor he would have become, had he lived.
Two things always stand out when I watch this movie. One will make you smile; the second will make you sad. The characters in this film essentially grow old by having their hair died grey. We know what Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor looked like as they aged; they did not look like Bick and Leslie with grown children. The second-- the racism towards Latinos. It is so raw and jarring in the film, but sad to say, too many Latinos, particularly Mexicans and Mexican Americans are still treated badly. While the movie's treatment of racism must have been much ahead of its time when it was released in 1956, unfortunately the film's message is still all too relevant today.
"Giant" made the list of 100 best movies published by the American Film Institute in 2000. It really is a classic.