Islands in the Stream
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Movie Reviews of Islands in the Stream
Movie Review: Islands In The Stream DVD Review
Summary: 4 Stars
Islands in the Stream What can I say? The adage "The Book Was Better" holds true here. If you truly enjoy anything Hemingway as I do, purchasing the DVD (used/like new) is worth the price if for no other reason the visual effect it provides. The book is outstanding even though it was released/published (1970) nine years after Hemingway died. Unfortunately the DVD does not follow the book in many key areas. Which should be particularily obvious to Hemingway devotees in that the main character, Thomas Hudson is a mirror image of Ernest Hemingway himself; the three sons could easily be Hemingway's three sons. If you enjoy Hemingway as much as I do, buy it and enjoy it. It's worth the price.Movie Review: Glorious adaptation!
Summary: 4 Stars
After the sonorous triumph that constituted Patton, Franklin Schaffner bet again with George Scott with this nostalgic cinematographic adaptation based on Hemingway 's novel about the decision of a sculptor to retire himself for living with his sons in an island where they will remain isolated and where obviously will spurt conflicts with his ex wife.
Movie Review: Islands in the Stream
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a very good movie but something in the formating to DVD is not correct. The sound track, although sincronized, has something lacking. The musicical background of the sound track does not flow fluently.Movie Review: Not quite like the book but wonderful
Summary: 4 Stars
I wish they had stuck closer to the book in the last half, but it was well done and makes you examine the issue of loss and choices.Movie Review: Sad...dated...disappointing
Summary: 2 Stars
I was thinking about purchasing this DVD to add to our collection of best-loved movies. I hadn't seen it before today, but I've enjoyed Hemingway's novels and George C Scott's performances...so what could go wrong. Unfortunately much too much.
Perhaps the story Hemingway attempted in this unfinished work is too big for the screen. With so much ground to cover, the filmmakers choose to eliminate too little and so by spreading their attention a mile wide have fashioned a movie paper thin...
I can only guess that the original script was a lot more appealing than the picture we see. Otherwise why would Scott choose to do this after his success with Patton, The Hospital and They Might Be Giants. Nothing was engrossing: not the relationship between Hudson and his buddies on the island, not his relationship with his sons, and not the interaction between Hudson and the only woman he loved.
Completely unsatisfying.
"Islands" was a waste of time. Don't waste your money. I'm happy I borrowed this one from the Library.
Buy one of Scott's other movies...certainly, Patton and The Hospital, but also The Hustler, Strangelove and They Might Be Giants, or another, not yet on DVD, but among my favorites - The Flim-Flam Man.