Movie Reviews for The Name of the Rose

The Name of the Rose

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Movie Review: Midieval Drama
Summary: 3 Stars

This is a midieval drama about monks. It is a good movie. We're dealing with the welfare state since 1950 in America and most of Europe, it doesn't give you any incentive to do anything but stay out of trouble. The whole idea is so that you're not dependant upon mom and dad. You can take that same income and give it to an over the hill druid who supports his whole family on it or you can make a licing off of it for one person. You can get VHS tapes for 1 or 1.50 now so you don't have to worry about the cost any more. They made them cheap enough for everyone to be able to afford. When VHS tapes, a TV and VCR were a luxury, those were the days when in an R rated movie big stars would get nude like every time. The high class went out the door, much the same as Martin Luther with books in the 1500s. If Sweden is the third largest European country and like 6th in everything, why do American encyclopedias list their population at about 1 million and their religion as norse paganism? Sweden's official religion is Lutheran; Martin Luther made books cheap enough for everyone to be able to afford. These people at the bar are like 600 years behind before Martin Luther and King James. King James was the first modern King in Europe who wanted everyone to know the gospel, but they still won't shell out 5 or 6 bucks to get the Authorized King James Bible FROM the 1500s. It's amazing. This movie is about monks from that period, about the 1500s, late 1400s. It's good.

Movie Review: Best homework ever
Summary: 5 Stars

I bought this for my niece's unviersity homework, and we thougt it was going to be boring, but turned out to be a very good experience.

Movie Review: Great movie
Summary: 4 Stars

One of the most unappreciated movies by Sean Connery. To those who have read the book, it will seem like they left out a lot of the story, to those who haven't, this is a great detective story.

Movie Review: A great labyrinth of mystery brought to the screen
Summary: 4 Stars

This really is one of the better historical murder mystery movies out there. Despite a few flaws it is well worth watching and even owning for mystery fans. Surprisingly it is rather unheralded, even though it features three great actors including Sean Connery at his best, a young Christian Slater, Academy Award winner F. Murray Abraham, and a host of other recognizable late-80s extras.

The original book by Umberto Eco is a rather brilliant work, and easily the best of his novels (and most readable). And though the movie doesn't even come close to the complexity of the book, it does a good job creating a dark, suspenseful atmosphere and generates plenty of interest in the murder plot and the loosely connected controversies of abbey and Church that surround it. Although both the movie and Eco's book share a rather simplistic (and gradually being debunked) understanding of the Middle Ages (i.e. "Dark" Ages; Church = oppressive and against reason, etc.), it's nothing worse than anything else in popular culture (See Regine Pernoud's book "Those Terrible Middle Ages" for a good start on some of that debunking).

But given its limitations the movie succeeds quite well in transporting the viewer into its world -- highly recommended for any lovers of mysteries, or anyone who loved running through mazes as a kid or looking for secret passages in old houses.