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Movie Reviews of Marty
Movie Review: Top notch
Summary: 5 Stars
Since the days of silent pictures, Hollywood has given us stories of beautiful and glamorous women who are romanced by dashing heroes with magnificent profiles. Unfortunately in real life very few women look much like Liz Taylor or Kim Novak, and not many men measure up to Clark Gable or Cary Grant. Their movies make for pleasant escape fare and have given us all unwarranted expectations: I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each....
"Marty" is one of the rare movies that tells about real people and what really matters in human relationships. Betsy Blair is a science teacher and no femme fatale, and Ernest Borgnine is a "stocky" (as he says) Bronx butcher with a gap between his teeth. But they are good and decent people who luckily find each other one night, while Marty's friends fixate on Mickey Spillane's way of handling dolls, wild nurses who are drunk, and whatever on earth is on 72nd Street and Union City.
The acting is first rate, start to finish. The plot is real. The characters are ones I've met too many times to count. While this is no "date movie" that would appeal to the dim bulbs of the world, it is a top notch film in every respect.
Movie Review: My new Most favorite movie!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Wow!!! If I had seen this years ago Ernie would've been my very favorite actor all these years.I'm only used to seeing him in "tough guy" roles. This movie which I stumbled over one day is a masterpiece. I always liked him as an actor but the acting Ernie does in this film is some of the best I've seen by any actor ever!!!It is a story about the eternal search for love and happiness and the pain of lonliness.Still the film is funny and enjoyable,not depressing at all.The story is about the average or perhaps homely person who feels handicapped at the outset by their lack of looks or by shyness.Watch Ernie particularly when Clara explains that she does want to see him again very much..wow it's touching.The last scene in the movie is the best acting I,ve seen anyone do ever!Watch Ernie's face as he listens to his brain-dead friends blather on. It's an unbelievable bit of acting. You'll have to see it to see what I mean.Get it today. You won't regret it.Ernest Borgnine will become YOUR favorite actor too!Movie Review: A masterpiece, and one unnoticed aspect of Marty
Summary: 5 Stars
I enjoy reading reviews on Amazon just after seeing a movie, and this time i especially enjoyed how many favorite lines were quoted by everyone (I'm a fat ugly man!).
But one section that was not quoted was the hysterically funny and yet deep conversation about Mickey Spillane, with one guy who describes sections of books he's read and then other guys saying 'That guy sure could write'. "This guy knew how to handle women. he meets one woman. She makes a pass at him. Then a set of twins. They make a pass at him...".
I laughed so hard watching this section and was quoting it the next day. The scene emphasises that starting with their mothers and then moving to relationships with women, men are trapped in feeling pressure to show contempt for women at the same time as they desire them. (CF The Shere Hite Reader pp 114-116).
So the movie Marty also gives us insight into sexism that, with all the progress that has been made in male female relationships, persists to this day.
Movie Review: An Inspiration for Reluctantly-Single "Passed-Up" Adults
Summary: 5 Stars
Imagine being still single at age 34, at a time when almost everyone got married by their early 20's, and being part of a culture (Italian) that prizes marriage and large families. You still live with your mother. You go to places to meet members of the opposite sex, but are constantly rejected by them. You are tired of being hurt by rejection. You think that you must be ugly--and even call yourself a dog. You consider yourself a failure. You even contemplate suicide--but even such thoughts are strictly forbidden by your religion. You are a butcher--a not very esteemed profession. Sure, you have friends, but you are basically in a rut.
Such was the situation facing Marty.
Then, at one time at the dance hall to which he had been so many times before, he comes across a woman who had just been dumped by some jerk. They start to talk...
This film won 4 Oscars and the Best Picture of 1955.
Movie Review: an awesome sleeper
Summary: 5 Stars
this film was a giant of "sleeper" films. a quiet little film with a simple little message but crashed through and was given the oscar in the top 4 categories. when i first saw Marty years ago, i didn't expect much. i videotaped it at the same time, only because i was trying to collect as many "BEST PICTURE" winners as possible. i figured a love story couldn't be that great. i was consummately wrong. it is definitely one of the greats of all motion picture history.
as for the DVD. the picture was sharp and clear, but some artifacts were present. the sound was good too. but one reservation about this DVD is it was released in the "vintage classics" series. i have noticed in that series, all the DVDs are packaged very similarly. the same bland label on the discs, the same basic type of box layout, and almost nothing in special features offered. but inspite of that, i still give it 5 stars.