The Outsiders
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Movie Reviews of The Outsiders
Movie Review: The outsiders Movie and the Book
Summary: 5 Stars
To the movie I would rate it as a 5. I really like the theme of the story and I think that that is very important. I think that it was really good organized even thought that on the movie they didn't included some of the parts that came on the book. I really like how the actors acted. The one that I think acted the best was Dally, Matt Dillon. I also liked that the characters said some of the dialogs exactly how the book said them. I think that they acted it really real. They made me feel sad when Johnny died, when Dally made the fuzz kill him and when Ponyboy its at the hospital and Darry and Sodapop hug him. They all acted really well!
My opinion about the plot and the setting is that they were really clear. The main idea about the movie was super clear but I don't know how clear because I had already read the book and I already knew what it was about. But I think that a person that has not read the book he or she would understand were they were and what it is about. My world about the book was not very much of how the movie was. The church was really different about how I imagined it. Also the rumble and the hospital were really different too. On the book I that Dally was not that handsome and on the movie he was really cute!
The movie included some of the major idea of the book but still some of they were missing. For example, on the book Ponyboy went to school and he was flunking classes, so he went to see his English teacher and he told him that if he wrote a story about anything he would pass English class. Another thing was that they never passed when Randy went to Ponyboy's house and told him that he needed to go to court and Ponyboy started to go crazy saying that he had killed Bob. The court never happened in the movie either. I think that the book is way better than the movie. I really liked it too but, it was not as specific as the book was. I think that you have to read the book first for you to get some of the details of the movie. I also think that it is better always to read books first than to see the movie because you picture it the way you want and when you see the movie you only know it as it is. I really preferred the book than the movie only that everything seems more real in the movie than how I imagined it.
Catherine
Movie Review: ~~~Excellent~~~
Summary: 5 Stars
This review is going to compare the book to the movieThe Outsiders, the book and the movie are about gangs and clichés. In The Outsiders your either a Soc or a Greaser. A Soc is a rich kid, Socs have fancy cars and nice homes. While Greasers have live in poor environments, beat up cars and don't make much money. The story about The Outsiders is mainly about Ponyboy and the previous events before a great big rumble that takes place between the Socs and the Greasers. The book and the movie both have the same plot, but some of the events are left out or have been changed.
Some points in the movie were shot very accurate to the book. Like the Robert Sheldon murder (or you could call it when they whacked off poor Bob) That part was almost exactly like I imagined it in the book. The actor that played Dally performed him very well. Dally was the same cocky, tough, young, handsome and reckless greaser that was described in the book. When Dally was running across the lot away from the police, I thought that Coppola did that part beautifully. Again it was as though I was reading the book. Same exact pictures, it was so close to what I imagined it was scary.
There are some things in the movie that I thought were different in the book. Like they left out Ponyboy being jumped in the beginning, the court hearing, Ponyboy and Johnny jumping off the train, they changed the part where Randy and Ponyboy talk and they also left out the teacher giving Ponyboy the school report. There was one more thing that really bothered me, all of the Greasers and Soc's looked like they were in their mid/ late twenties. I mean the book described everyone as high school aged kids and early twenties.
I thought that movie and the book were both well done, and of course the book is better than the movie. The movie could be edited so that it is more like the book, only by adding in parts. I would also change some of the actors so they don't look like old people I mean god. It would be better if they were young kids, and looked like young reckless kids. Other than that the movie was a good version of the story.
Movie Review: Gold
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie and novel are complete magic. I am turning 13 in 11 days and I read the novel when I was in 2nd grade! I reread it this year(7th grade) as required reading and then I remembered how magical it was. The friendships were created so well. Though, they forgot so many scenes, that I feel, is the only thing wrong with the movie. They forgot to tell about Sodapop and his girlfriend Sandy and why he was so upset, they forgot about Mickey Mouse(horse), the court scene, when Ponyboy passes out and is unconcious for days on hand! Though, I have heard that they may be releasing a Collector's Edition with deleted scenes and the works! Which I am very excited about. This movie has stayed gold through and through. Coppola had captured every character just about right. With the exception of Dallas Winston who should've had Blonde hair and icy blue eyes. Though Matt Dillon portrayed Dally just right. They didn't really describe the brotherly bond that Johnny and Dallas have or how Ponyboy feels that Darry only likes Soda. The movie is pure gold though. I could go on forever but I won't.
Please, please buy this extraordinary film!
Movie Review: This is a good movie i grew up with
Summary: 5 Stars
I used to watch this movie with my friends in the 80's[the older version], not like the newer remaastered version[The DVD] which I have. Here's my review of the movie it all starts when Darrel[played by Patrick Swayze] hits Ponyboy[played by C. Thomas Howell] and Ponyboy runs away with his friend, Johnny[Played by Karate Kid's Ralph Macchio] and He and Ponyboy run into trouble with the "socs" which Johnny kills one of them, They both go to Dallas's after Johnny Kills them, Dallas[played by Matt Dillon]tells them to hide out at a abandoned chruch and Ponyboy gets his hair bleached at the chruch reading Gone with the Wind, Dallas's comes by a few days later and tells them about a rumble[a fight] the next night. After saving kids at the chruch when it was on fire, Johnny and Dallas are driven to the hospital with Ponyboy reuniting with his brothers Darrel and Sodapop[played by Rob Lowe] And then comes the rumble... and Johnny and Dallas death, Johnny[before he dies] tells Pony to "stay gold" Dillon's famous "you think my old man gives a hack if i'm dead or drunk" makes this movie famous.Movie Review: The outsiders
Summary: 5 Stars
The main actors play their parts in the movie good. They didn't look a lot like greasers, but they act really well or at least they try to act like them. They should maybe look at the details a little more because Soda wasn't so happy in the movie and in the book he was a happy person. I think that the plot and setting of the book weren't so clearly in the movie. They skip parts that had a lot to do with the next. They didn't do the foreshadowing so well as in the book and the setting where ok. The church was as they describe it and the park was the only thing that wasn't as in the book. I imagine the park bigger. Some parts where as I imagine, but some didn't in the church I thought the windows where made of glass and not of wood, also Derry Queen I thought they went down and eat in the restaurant not in Dally's car. It didn't discuss so well the story themes in the movie because they skip lots of parts and so many details. I think the book was better than the movie because in the book they express everything they think and it has more details so it's easier to imagine it!