<p>Rented this weekend. One of the worst movies made by some good actors I have ever seen. Just awful. They could not even smoke right.</p>
<p>Agreed. Except I also do not like the actors.</p>
<p>I recently read the book and just hated it.</p>
<p>HaHa. I was ready to type when I read Zoosermom’s post. The book was simply HORRIBLE, and it was, unfortunately, a pick for our neighborhood book club. How could that boring book possibly have been made into a movie? What am I missing?</p>
<p>Not much apparently. The only decent moment in the entire film was when the old guy turned down his hearing aid. I wish I had turned off the movie after 10 minutes.</p>
<p>I thought the movie was good but it was terribly sad.</p>
<p>I think my niece was an extra! (Haven’t gotten around to seeing it yet–maybe I can netflix it and fast forward to her scene.) Thanks for the warning!</p>
<p>Gee–I would like to hear a contrary opinion. I’ve been on the “hold” list for this book at the library for MONTHS, and I’m down to number 6 on the list. Does anyone think it’s worth reading??</p>
<p>dg5052, I’ll be the contrarian and say that I thought Revolutionary Road was a beautifully written book. The subject matter is disturbing, no doubt about that, but the writing is inspiring. Here is a post by epistrophy on the ever popular ‘favorite book’ thread about the wonderful Richard Yates:</p>
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<p>Definitely worth reading.</p>
<p>We saw it this weekend thanks to Netflix queue–found it very dreary yet shrill, sour and murky, and with a sense of self and place and society very much a product of another decade. (I was impressed by Kate Winslet’s American accent and her highly focused impersonation of what I envision as one of Sylvia Plath’s less talented and very petulant classmates at a privileged women’s college. That didn’t make it a good movie or an interesting role to watch though.) And DiCaprio really is a good actor but I think I would even have been willing to sit through Titanic again rather than watch him in this movie.</p>
<p>I had heard of Yates before the movie and felt a little guilty that I did not read him but now have no plans to.</p>
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<p>Yes, that is the part about it that I liked. The 50s was like that, if you didn’t fit into the norms of society you had nowhere to go. There was no revolutionary movement, that didn’t emerge until the 60s. For all the problems today at least people have choices.</p>
<p>There were lots of people who did not try to fit in. We called them hoods or beatniks.</p>
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<p>I too thought of a cut-rate Slyvia Plath and wished Kate W had just stuck her head in the oven–or was it electric?</p>
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<p>I watched the movie on an overseas flight–haven’t read the book. I thought the ending was sad, but when I started thinking about it, I wasn’t really sure why the main characters, especially Winslet, were unhappy with their lives and their marriage. Before they married, we only see a few scenes in the movie of their pre-marriage life, they didn’t really seem like free spirits–both seemed fairly conventional. Other than the fact that they were both unfaithful, they seemed like people who did follow the norms and were just unhappy.</p>
<p>I liked the movie a lot. It was sad and poignant, and excellently acted. Very true to life, I thought, too.</p>
<p>The movie I didn’t like was “Slumdog Millionaire.” I didn’t like the story or the violence. That was a movie that really disappointed me. I also didn’t cry at the end. I was just glad it was over.</p>
<p>I’m with you NSM - “Slumdog Millionaire” was one of the most poorly acted films I have ever seen. the only thing good about it was the “Bollywood” dance finale.</p>
<p>Haven’t seen “Revolutionary Road” but it was filmed in my town last year. I loved the book and read it a couple of times. I thought the writing was fantastic.</p>
<p>What is sad about a narcissist and her conventional husband? I was more interested see see if the husband made it big in computers and had a great life without that anchor.</p>
<p>Well, has the Motion Picture Academy been wrong before? “Revolutionary Road” produced two acting nominations this past year.</p>
<p>idk where all this negativity is coming from! i just saw the movie tonight and i thought it was amazing!</p>
<p>yeah its really depressing, and it makes me never want to get married (thank goodness it isn’t still the 50s, cause if it was I actually don’t think I ever would get married!)
but that’s just how powerful it was!</p>
<p>it was amazing how the simple premise of a dysfunctional marraige, which is still very common in modern society, can make for such an intense movie. </p>
<p>i thought the acting was great. i loved how in the beginning i felt so sorry for kate, and towards the end i had so much sympathy for dicaprio’s character. </p>
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and i never read the book, but just from seeing the movie i think the director/writer did a great job of incorporating symbolism and irony (the red blood amidst white in that end scene, and the whole idea of the insane person being the only one to actually see reality), and the cinematography was fantastic. and i almost laughed at the last scene with the older husband turning off his hearing aid.
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<p>it’s a serious, unnervingly realisticly portrayed, scary, and depressing. but a well made film.</p>
<p>i really liked that movie</p>
<p>oh well</p>
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