I think I’ve seen some people here make some disparaging comments about Legends of the Fall.
And recently on The Office, Jim and Pam made fun of Angela for choosing Legends of the Fall for her desert island movie.
I kind of like Legends of the Fall. Brad Pitt is nice to look at (no homo). Maybe I like it cause it’s a man’s movie; dealing with war and brothers?
Anyway, who here doesn’t like it and why?
Your gonna get more comments on the (no homo) remark than the movie.
Anyway. It’s not a bad movie. Good acting, good cast. Just kinda predictable.
It’s too long and ponderous, Julia Ormand is terrible (and when the second half of the movie depends on her, this is critical), and Pitt still hadn’t yet proven himself beyond being a pretty face (the next year would be his true breakthrough as an actor). It’s a pretty movie, but the drama is so artificially pumped up (James Horner’s music doesn’t help), that it cries out for some subtlety and restraint but never comes close to either. The WWI stuff is the best, but that doesn’t last long.
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Gay.
The movie was overwrought. Drama is great and all but the drama felt so forced. I watched it for the first time a few years ago and was disappointed.
I found it hard to take Julia Ormond’s character seriously, much less empathize with her, after she fell in love with two brothers and married the third, to the extent that her suicide over the one that got away seemed darkly comic rather than tragic.
The pronouncement that Tristan met “a good death” in a wrestling match with his old nemesis the grizzly bear made me roll my eyes as well.
Other than that, it seemed like it wanted really badly to be an epic, but it was just one damned thing after another without anything characters or themes strong enough to glue the episodes together.
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Your gonna get more comments on the (no homo) remark than the movie.
Please don’t insult other posters.*
Thanks,
twickster, Cafe Society moderator
*Yeah, yeah, “not that there’s anything wrong with that…” except this poster seems to be coming from a place where there is something wrong with it.
That’s not an insult… but ok.
It’s an overwrought potboiler.
However, I like the climax, and the scenes where Pitt goes feral on the western front are still amazing.
I’ve never seen it solely because of the overly pretentious title.
Gorgeously shot but overly pretentious. I think that pretty much sums it up.
*Legends of the Fall *is a brilliant movie when you watch it with the right attitude: sound off, finger on the fast forward button, stopping and rewinding only to see Brad Pitt looking hot, hot, hot.
Brad Pitt’s character is meant to be this tortured soul but, IMHO, comes across as being a spoiled brat.
It is the opposite of a man’s movie. The thing has “chick flick” written all over it.
I personally dug it, but I dig chick flicks so no great surprise there.