Middlemarch
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Movie Reviews of Middlemarch
Movie Review: Drama Builds with Each Episode.
Summary: 4 Stars
The lives of people in a small town in England in the 1800's.
Several plots. A young man's wife spends more than he earns. A wealthy man is blackmailed. A woman finds that the man she married is not the nice man she thought he was. A young woman demands her suitor improve his character if he wishes to date her.
Visually appealing with pretty: countryside, homes, and costumes. The drama increases with each episode.
From the novel by Mary Ann Evans of 1872. She used the pen-name, George Eliot, to get her book published in the man's business world of the time. She prefers Mary Ann. Her appeal is her thought-provoking plots. Her motto: "Moral thinking is intelligent thinking".
Many scenes are done well; yet this story could be remade even better. See my suggestions under the "comment" button below.
Movie Review: Great show-excellent story line
Summary: 4 Stars
This is one DVD my husband and I devoured. SO many plots and story lines all intertwined to make a great storyline. I have just purchased the book as I liked the movie so much.
I gave it four stars. I would have given it five if it had a few less swear words. They were mild, but I really enjoy watching shows such as "Pride and Prejudice" which keep crass language to a minimum. It is not as bad, however, as Vanity Fair. THe musical score was great which is something I always enjoy in these BBC shows, and something in which I was greatly dissappointed in "Vanity Fair."
This really is a captivating story and a well done program. Great price as well for the number of hours of enjoyable television.
Movie Review: inspiring story with intriguing characters
Summary: 4 Stars
Because of many nuances, the intriguing characters and beautiful music, this adaptation of "Middlemarch" is without doubt very enjoyable. The story in general is very inspiring - it is about new times, big (and not so big) dreams, romantic aspirations, friendship, etc. It is also about disappointments, hard choices, loneliness and, of course, despair. Most of all I liked that each character in "Middlemarch" are a complex human being, with good qualities as well as bad. My only complaint is about the ending. In my opinion, it was abrupt and lacked a little romance.
All in all I recommend these mini-series to everyone who likes good period dramas with diverse characters, romance and interesting plot.
Movie Review: Need to correct sales details...and liked the story...
Summary: 4 Stars
I'm writing this review, not for the content of this DVD, but to comment on the DVD itself. First of all, this is NOT presented in 1.33:1 aspect ratio, but is in full 16X9 widescreen aspect ratio (1.78:1). I was quite pleased with that. However, the quality of the video is lacking. There is obvious lack of sharpness/clarity which is most notable when there is a bright light, such as actors in front of windows or 'haloes' around candle flames. It's frequently quite distracting. It's also generally 'grainy'. I was disappointed.
But I didn't know the story, and I quite enjoyed it...I may now even read the book. Add one more 'buy' to my Rufus Sewell collection.
Movie Review: It's pretty good.
Summary: 4 Stars
The DVD itself isn't of the best quality (with good reason..I mean, there's over 5 hours of video on one DVD). It is watchable.
There are some scenes I wish they focused more on--like the jewel scene. It's in the first episode, but Dorothea's indecisiveness of accepting the jewels was not played out, but the dinner scene following it was wonderfully done.
Anyway, other than a few things I wish they went more in depth in,this is a very good adaptation of the book. I love the cast. Juliet Aubrey is a wonderful Dorothea (although she looks a bit old to play the role). Rosamond and Celia are both as I imagined them to be, and Ladislaw is gorgeous!