The Best Years of Our Lives
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Movie Reviews of The Best Years of Our Lives
Movie Review: poignant and timely
Summary: 5 Stars
two comments about this film:
1. just try to watch it without shedding a tear
2. think of the soldiers in iraq while you watch
Movie Review: BEST MOVIE EVER?
Summary: 5 Stars
For me, one of the BEST movies ever - this is one of thsoe films where they seemed to mix a great story with perfectly cast actors. I have seen all of these great actors (except Harold Russell - I belive this is the only film he starred in) in many other films but they seemed to gel together here and create a better film than the story alone would have resulted in. This is just a great, great film. Movie Review: Top of My Movie List
Summary: 5 Stars
Just like you, in many conversations I'm often asked what my favorite movie of all time is? A hard question for the celluloid set indeed.
But without a pause, doubt or breath I always reply "The Best Years of Our Lives".
William Wyler's epic deals with the assimilation of 3 main characters into the new America at the end of World War II. They left for war when the US economy was down, see death and destruction in Africa, Europe and the Pacific and come home to a different economy, mindset and world.
I was born about 20 years after the end of the Second World War, yet this movie encompasses our current society as well as it did two generations before me.
You've read about the Academy Award Nominations (7) and are familiar with the cast. The entire cast is exceptional including Hoagie Carmichael.
This movie is as poignant and important today as it was 60+ years ago.
Movie Review: MNReview
Summary: 5 Stars
Great review (of course - this is one of my all time favorite movies). Super different story lines of veterans returning home, back to work, etc. Movie Review: A tremendously moving WWII, which is still moving today...
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of the greatest WWII films ever made, and it's a really moving, deeply human story about war and its aftermath. Despite it being made in 1946, the film still holds it power today. I remember being absolutely stunned by it, enthralled by all of its 3 hours. It also shows that not every American was in love with the idea of fighting in WWII, and that many men were permanently disabled, both physically and mentally, by the war. It also has a rather frank (especially for this country) and honest depiction of adultery (one of the main characters is married to a gold diggin' b****, and another woman desperately wants the man to break up with her so she can enjoy him). It also has one of the greatest wedding scenes in movie history, taking up nearly 30 minutes at the end of the film. It is filmed exactly as it would happen in real life, and Hoagy Carmichael (yes, that Hoagy) is playing the piano during the ceremony. The scene is incredibly moving, and there isn't one ounce of forced sentimentality. It's incredibly honest and deeply moving. All of the performers are wonderful, and William Wyler shows why he was one of Hollywood's greatest directors. A masterpiece from the old Hollywood masters.