Hope and Glory
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Movie Reviews of Hope and Glory
Movie Review: A disappointment
Summary: 3 Stars
I love this type of movie but there isn't anything memorable about it. Easy watching but pretty dragged outMovie Review: NOT a good choice for family viewing
Summary: 2 Stars
While many reviewers here have given the film high praise, many parents or teachers will be unprepared on the basis of those reviews for some of the more sordid elements of the film. Unless you want to explain to your children, for example, why, when the mother pulls back the sheets, she finds her daughter's pants are wet (after an encounter with her boyfriend), this film would not be a good choice for family viewing.
The film's premise, to show the impact of the war on everyday life at home, is excellent, but some viewers will not be able to stomach the coarse elements that are an integral part of the film.
For a thoughtful, and often inspiring, look at British homelife during the war years for junior high and up I recommend the novel Enemy Brothers by British author Constance Savery, a skilled storyteller who lived through the period.
Movie Review: Wow, not what I remembered
Summary: 2 Stars
Last time I watched this film was in the theaters (I was probably 11) and I remember seeing it like 3 times I loved it so much. I remembered a great, heartwarming, joyful, funny film. Oh how my memory let me down.
What I got was a disjointed movie - really just a bunch of scenes strung together - with too few laughs and too little heart. Sure my Girlfriend says in the last 20 minutes it really improved and you really felt for the characters (I had gone to bed by then). But honestly I spent the first hour of the movie in embarrassment that I had talked it up so much.
Oh well, another childhood memory shattered ;)
I would never watch it again nor suggest it to anyone.
Movie Review: Horrible Film !!
Summary: 1 Stars
I almost never give negative reviews. Most of the time I would just as soon pass something on by if I cannot find something positive to say. However this movie is misrepresented in most of what has been written about it. Frankly this movie has no redeeming characheristics at all. From most of the write ups on this flick you get the impression that you are dealing with a young innocents point of view of the war (WWII), who still functions as a child and stays positive. This is not what you will find in this flick. What you get is a film from a very modern and adult point of view. The Children and the adults in this film are so corrupt and superficial as to make the kids and the "Jet Set" Adults of the 60's and 70's look naieve and innocent. There is nothing about the people in this film that would illicit any kind of sympathectic response and if the British had really been like this I think they could never have waged a successful war against anybody. I know a great many people who had fought in The European war and had been stationed in Britain before the invasion and they (The British) were even more straight laced then Americans of the day.(on The whole). I would not reccomend this flick to anyone. A truly Cynical peice of trash! Just Horrible!!Movie Review: if i could give it no stars i would
Summary: 1 Stars
having to watch with school for english classes was like watching plants grow hair. it has absolutley no story line what so ever and it is absolute dribble, john boorman wasted a lot of time making a film about.. practicly nothing. sure it gives us a taste of what it was like in world war two but it has no point, no plot, and nothing interesting to look at. i have to agree with mike that giving yourself an enema with a garden hose would probly be alot more enjoyable than watching this crap. dont waste your time and money looking in at other peoples lives, its got no relavence what so ever, go out and do somthing usefull, like make a film people will actually enjoy watching