Grand Hotel (Snap case)
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Movie Reviews of Grand Hotel (Snap case)
Movie Review: Not that Great....
Summary: 3 Stars
The movie is relentlessly grim, even in it's lighter moments. Garbo and John Barrymore's hammy scenes together are embarrassing.
But John is really endearing in his scenes with brother Lionel Barrymore. Also, Joan Crawford (!) gives the most understated and brilliant performance of the entire cast.
Worth a look, but as a whole is a little heavy-handed.
Movie Review: Bizarre
Summary: 2 Stars
I've seen this movie several times, and have always hated it. I don't know why - I love old movies, but I find this one impossible. Garbo is simply bad - incredible histrionics and inexplicable gyrations and shakes of the shoulders which I'm sure were meant to demonstrate her character as a ballerina, but which look only odd to the modern viewer. The whole film is stilted and shallow. The only other "classic film" I've ever come away from feeling shafted by was "Mrs. Miniver" for, I think, similar reasons. I think the modern viewer is simply incapable of viewing these movies in the spirit in which they were intended.Movie Review: A very dissapointing transfer to DVD.
Summary: 1 Stars
I was expecting a flawless transfer a la par with the MGM tradition but it was not to be.
I hope the people at Warner Bros. will pay attention and give us a truly Deluxe Edition of Garbo's most famous movies, such as Queen Christina, Camille, Anna Karenina, Ninotchka, and Anna Christie (German and English versions).