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Specifically the performances, directing and editing.Thanks
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reading the book versions of SFOC and THW. I read both and was let down immensely by the movie versions. Snow was somewhat close to the book, but I just couldn't get used to Hawke as the central character. Don't know why. Horse was just another Redford "look at me...feel sorry for me" vehicle. The ending was nothing like the book.Haven't seen the other two.
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Aurelio S.
I liked "Snow Falling on Cedars" the best of those. Not great but it was worth seeing once. I'm sure it will lose quite a bit on a television screen instead of a movie screen--I love the Pacific Northwest, and the film captured the "feel" of the Pac NW pretty well. I'm one of those who thinks Ethan Hawke is underrated; he does a nice job in "Snow Falling on Cedars."Didn't like "Horse Whisperer" much. Nice performances in some of the smaller roles--Sam Neill, Chris Cooper. I don't really remember much about the film, actually. I enjoyed seeing Allison Moorer singing in it and think it probably gave her musical career a boost(well-deserved).
"U-Turn" is worth seeing because of the cast and little else.
"Nixon" is gawd-awful. There have been maybe four or five videos over the past 10-15 years that I've quit watching part way through, and this was one of them. I had higher hopes for this film than anything Oliver Stone has done, figuring that Stone's skewed view of reality might just work in his favor with a subject like Nixon. No such luck.
...I decided that I have to visit Puget Sound before I die. If it's anything like Guterson describes in his book: The strawberry fields, the early morning fog, the distant sound of foghorns.All I need is a warm sweater and a hot cup of coffee!
I paid good money (hmmm, is there "bad?") to see these films. Placing "thought" and these movies in the same sentence, as did your post, creates an unnatural marriage. Avoid them, unless a beautiful woman asks you over to her place to watch them. She must, however, be very beautiful...
Snow was a completely unremarkable film in all respects. Its redeaming value is in not being offensive - good family film, if you know what I mean.The Whisperer - if you take Thomas out - there is nothing, I mean, completely nothing left to look at. Redford is the anathema to movie making.
The two others are by Oliver Stone... end of subject. Another anathema.
Being a horsewoman, I avoid nearly all horse movies. The Horse Whisperer is to be avoided by everyone.Snow Falling on Cedars...can you say "pretentious?" How about "boring?"
Nixon is interesting for the performances...U-Turn is a...mistake.
Personally, this time I'm with Victor, I wouldn't rent any of them.
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