Gore Vidal's Lincoln
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Movie Reviews of Gore Vidal's Lincoln
Movie Review: Excellent Sam Waterston Performance
Summary: 4 Stars
Virtually all correct historical quotes by Lincoln, based on his secretary's diaries.
Gore Vidal's research is the tops...
Richard Mulligan as Seward a pleasure to watch.
Movie Review: Gore Vidal's Lincoln
Summary: 4 Stars
Gore Vidal's LincolnIt was a good movie and the quality of the dvd was goodMovie Review: Wonderful film & acting but hideous transfer!
Summary: 3 Stars
I have to share another reviewer's comments that she thought this DVD edition is pirated. I don't know if that's true, and I don't a thing about 'Echo Bridge Entertainment", but they certainly did a huge disservice to a wonderful film that I remembered so fondly (until I purchased this DVD..). First of all, it's not anamporphic (odd, since it was filmed for TV), and the print is so faded as to be almost indistinct at times (you would have thought that it was made in 1938 instead of 1988). Either the transfer is a pirate or the producers hired some junior high schoolers (high schoolers would have done a better job) to use this film as their first editing/film transfer project in preparation for film school (don't show 'em this film, kids, you'll never be admitted!). In any event, the film is still a faithful adapation of Gore Vidal's wonderful novel, Mary Tyler Moore is extraordinary as M.T. Lincoln, Waterson compliments Vidal's vision of Lincoln, and rest of the cast in uniformally excellent. It would be nice to think that on this, the 150 anniversary of the start of the Civil War, some enterprising production company would reedit, remaster, and re-release this excellent and important film.Movie Review: Marred by bleached colors
Summary: 3 Stars
Excellent content and acting, seriously marred by bleached colors. Why did someone do this? IMO, seriously damaged what could have been otherwise an outstanding film. Is this the course of the future in US films? Are our movie producers to bleach out colors of every historical film so that it looks like it was filmed with old technology. What is the sense to this? I am very frustrated by this. I miss a lot of detail due to this misguided after processing treatment of bleaching out the colors. PUT BACK THE COLORS MOVIE PRODUCERS, SO THAT I CAN SEE THE DETAILS IN THIS FILM. OR MAKE IT BLACK AND WHITE. WHAT DO THE MOVIE PRODUCERS THINK THAT THEY DID TO THIS FILM?Movie Review: Screams "TV Movie"
Summary: 3 Stars
If you enjoy historical bio-pics, this will likely appeal to you but it screams "TV movie". The performances are mediocre and the film looks very low budget. Both Sam Waterston and Mary Tyler Moore's portrayals of Abraham and Mary Todd were very two dimensional. I was left feeling like I never saw the real humanity of these iconic figures.
Compare this to vastly superior "Eleanor and Franklin", the 1976 ABC mini-series about the Roosevelts. It's night and day.
What I wouldn't give for a thoughtfully produced, adequately budgeted film on Lincoln. It's long overdue and this one just misses the mark in too many ways.