Jude
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Movie Reviews of Jude
Movie Review: Why tamper with a classic?
Summary: 3 Stars
Excellent performances and lovely cinematography, the film sometimes catches the power of Hardy's novel, but why tamper with the book's ending? Similar to the blight that is Demi Moore's "Scarlett Letter," do studios and directors believe that melancholic finales have no place in movies? The tale as originally told continues to be popular for a reason....Movie Review: Still Waiting on the World to Change....
Summary: 2 Stars
I normally like these kind of movies. Period picture, forbidden love, obsession. Has anyone made a movie of Flaubert's SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION? Oh, well, there's several versions of MADAME BOVARY. That fascinating train wreck of a love in WUTHERING HEIGHTS. Something with a stuffy veneer but a destructive burning passion underneath.
Then there's JUDE.
The elements were there and it's terrifically shot and acted but...yikes. The story just doesn't carry its audience into sympathizing for these lovers. The "society" isn't personified enough to provide a good villain. A guy who wants to marry his cousin wouldn't fly too well RIGHT NOW, let alone way back in the day. After so much destructive calamity is inflicted on this couple--and you definitely get the feeling that much more than merely other people and society is against them--even you're ready to throw in the towel on this affair.
If you're the kind of person who wants to only see Kate Winslet naked...you're really going to dislike this movie. This isn't a Skinna-Max late night romp (NAKED EYES 5 or something), it's not even THE STORY OF O or HENRY AND JUNE, it's a serious adaption of a really old book. From reading the other reviews, it sounds like they inserted a sex scene that didn't even appear in the novel (I've only read one Hardy novel so far).
Before catastrophe strikes (and a WAY over the top disaster), Jude says that he's "waiting for the world to change" to accept living and having children with his cousin as a common-law wife. After watching JUDE, the world looks like it's ready to come after you if you pull that stuff.
Movie Review: A good soundtrack in search of a movie.
Summary: 2 Stars
About the only thing this movie has going for it is the excellent music. The producers of this film are out of their mind if they expect any viewer who's not screwed-up in the head to feel sorry for the two stupid main characters just because their sick, incestuous, and adulterous lifestyle is incompatible with the world they live in. If you want to leave your entertainment center in a good mood, don't watch this!Movie Review: Be Careful
Summary: 1 Stars
If you have a tender heart toward children, then do not watch this film. All other elements aside, what ultimately happens to the children in this novel made me drop to my knees in front of my television and weep. When it was over I proceeded to have my worst night of sleep for the year. True, the character studies are excellent, including that of the oldest child, and the faithfulness to Hardy's vision is sufficient. There is a gratuitous nude scene involving Kate Winslet that was, nevertheless, nice to have to endure (the nakedness of her character, I suppose, is meant to reflect the nakedness of emotion between the cousins during that moment of their consummation, as well as their naked position in society with regard to social taboo). Ultimately, however, I do not like graphic depictions of children suffering violence, and I do not recommend this film for that reason.Movie Review: Watch Something Else!
Summary: 1 Stars
Two hours of my time were wasted by watching this dreary film. I kept hoping it would get better, but no. It's relentlessly cruel, achingly futile and supremely depressing. Not even it's two very talented stars could elevate this material. Watch anything else!