Vanity Fair
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Movie Reviews of Vanity Fair
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Summary: 3 Stars
The acting was mediocre. The story just wasn't what I wanted it to be. There is a bit of nudity which was unnecessary. I don't know which movie is closer to the book but if I had to pick one I would choose the newest one with Reese Witherspoon. It just had a better and more dramatic ending. The production was a decent one and that is the best I can give it.Movie Review: Technically the worst dvd I have ever watched
Summary: 2 Stars
I can not give an accurate criticism of this adaptation of Vanity Fair because I have only watched the first 25 minutes of the movie. I stopped watching and began writing this review because I wanted to warn people that the picture quality contained on this dvd is worse than bad. My 36 inch television showed so many video artifacts that it became distracting. I can accept the fact that it is only available in pan & scan, what I can not accept is picture quality so bad and un-even that it looks as if it were dubbed from an old vhs tape. The people at A&E really need to take a close look at how they master their dvd releases. I have also purchased Pride and Prejudice from them and I can tell you that, while it is one of my favorite productions, the dvd quality is sub-par (but nowhere near as bad as Vanity Fair). If you buy this release expecting dvd quality sound and picture, you will be disappointed.Movie Review: Good Adaptation....poor music,annoying scenes
Summary: 2 Stars
My husband and I watched this movie, and felt we had waisted our money. Pride and Prejudice FAR outweighs this one.
First of all, the music in this movie we found to be barely tolerable.Secondly, In my opinion, the foul language could have been left out of this movie. Making it a bit more family friendly. Thirdly, We did watch it till the end, but it was a drudgery.
I have read the book and will say that they perhaps did the best they could at putting this book on screen as it would be a difficult screen play to write. But some liberties were taken in the movie that I didn't like.
Overall, it was a waste of time and money.
On the other hand, Pride and Prejudice,Persuasion, and Jane Austen's Emma are excellent movies on which to spend your valuable time and money.
Movie Review: Not a great English Movie
Summary: 2 Stars
I thought Vanity Fair was a baudry and cheap movie that lasted to long. I feel I wasted my money on buying it.Movie Review: Typical silly movie maker fare. Absolutely not "Vanity Fair!"
Summary: 1 Stars
Becky isn't a romantic character and there isn't a romantic ending. BECKY KILLS JOS IN THE CLOSING PAGES OF THE ACTUAL NOVEL!
Suspend your disbelief for a moment: In the actual novel Becky connives and crushes friends and family on her odyssey to fame and fortune. She abandons her son, bullies her way in and out of society, prostitutes herself, and finally murders Jos. The whole premise of Thackeray's novel is that there are no heroes, no heroines. In fact, there are only two or three characters of good nature and they play small roles. He purposely meant it that way. In every record of interview he confirmed his intention to portray the dark side that lurks within each of us and how lives are affected when those traits are set free.
Here's the trick; when any literary work is 70 years old, all rights of the author, family or publisher are relinquished to the public and media executives, producers and marketing directors know full well that a very small percentage of their audience actually read the classics or even read at all; so they "adapt" the world's masterpieces to appeal to the box office so that the memory of the work is lost to several generations.
That is why movies adapted from modern novels have different titles from the books they are based on, and are qualified with the phrase "based on the novel `such and such.'"
This silly movie is an example of the mockery that movie makers and the media have made of the world's culture, especially our own.
Don't read or buy this silly DVD. Read the book. The book is a wonderful experience and will take a few days for a working person. This DVD will take two hours and will provide the type of empty calories that the world is becoming more and more addicted to.
Do you really think you can manage to adapt a Thackeray novel in five hours? Absolutely not!