Making Love
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Movie Reviews of Making Love
Movie Review: Great Movie but 10 Years too late!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great Movie and a good song to boot! It should have been one that could have been told 10 years sooner in 72. But good just the same. Can you believe Goldie Hawn was suppose to play the Jackson part. It would have been too funny!Movie Review: A Perfect Movie, Sad, But True.
Summary: 5 Stars
It wasn't perfect in a sense that they were Gay, but these things happen all the time in everyday life of people. I felt bad for the wife. Wow, what a blow to someones life. Michael Ontkean sure played his part. It's a interesting movie.Movie Review: making love
Summary: 5 Stars
this is a gay themed love story, about a married man's struggle to accept his homosexuality. he is torn between two worlds and doesnt want
to hurt the woman he loves, but needs to be true to himself at the same time.
Movie Review: Score Soundtrack
Summary: 5 Stars
Does anyone know where a soundtrack of the Leonard Rosenman score can be found? (Not the Roberta Flack love theme.)Movie Review: Destined to become a classic
Summary: 4 Stars
This is one of those films that makes your realize just how far we've come from quality, creative filmmaking. I was really shocked at how much I enjoyed this film the second time around so many years later. It must be that I'm so bored with modern crap. At the time this film was released in 1982 (just prior to AIDS becoming a household word), it was considered rather dull and contrite. I remember watching it when I was a kid, and thought it was a snoozer, too. Now, 27 years later, it's like watching a masterpiece in comparison to the banal, preachy crap that is released today. "Making Love" is a perfect example of a pre-PC film, which is frank in its depiction of the characters' lives, the good and the bad, foregoing artificial representations merely to perpetuate a political agenda. Unlike most today's films, the plot in "Making Love" stays true to form, the characters are believable and don't sway from their true natures merely to express a politically correct viewpoint, and the director trusts the audiences' intelligence by keeping the camera on the characters and the scenes. There is nothing flashy or forced. The film coloring is typical of the 1980s: very autumn-like, doing away with flashy color so that the audience can focus on the characters and their story. Some viewers may consider the scenes where the individual characters talk to the audience as disjointing, as I did back when it was first released, but watching it now I realize they are necessary in giving the viewers a more in-depth understanding of the characters. The performances are honest and believable. Kate Jackson acts like anyone would if they learned their husband were gay. Michael Ontkean is perfect for the role of the sexually confused husband. And Harry Hamlin (one of People magazine's "Most Beautiful Men Alive" celebrities in the 1980s), is realistic as a gallivanting single gay man in the pre-AIDS days. There are no "heroes" or "villains" in this film as they have in today's silly movies. There's just people, with lives. If "Making Love" were made today, it would most likely be filled with homophobes and bad guys looking to harm the "innocent" characters all in true PC form. The audience would undoubtedly be bashed over the head with preachiness and false PC depictions of gay life, which, in reality, comes in as many forms as "straight" life. When "Brokeback Mountain" was released in 2006, I didn't quite understand why so many people lauded it as a milestone in gay filmmaking when 25 years earlier "Making Love" was targeted to mainstream audiences as well. People's knowledge of the past is extremely limited these days. I would recommend this film to appreciate the finer qualities of filmmaker prior to the PC error, and also for an interesting history of how tolerant Americans were even in the early 1980s. I agree with many of the other reviews: "Making Love" is destined to become a classic that must be seen, especially when compared with today's simplistic and spurious garbage.