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This movie and story is laughable

posted 18 years ago by petelato
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Finally, after years hearing about the classic Wuthering Heights I got to see this movie. It is ridiculous. What a contrived story. Cathy and Heathcliff were both horrible people who made everyone miserable really. I think people who love this movie must be disillusional and disenchanted. If you were told this story in the real world, in the here and now, you would probably say it's a very dull story
and forgetful. Which it is for me, I can't wait to forget it.

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[–] g_dekok 15 years ago

fr petelato:

>Finally, after years hearing about the classic Wuthering Heights I got to see this movie. It is ridiculous. What a contrived story. Cathy and Heathcliff were both horrible people who made everyone miserable really. I think people who love this movie must be disillusion and disenchanted...<

So change the channel. It's not rocket science.

[–] TinorialPeredhil 15 years ago

If you were told this story in the real world, in the here and now

I was told this story here and now. I didn't have the great opportunity of reading it when it was first published. That does not mean that Healthcliff is not a marvelous character - he is dark and disturbed, but frighteningly in control of his senses. You're supposed to hate Cathy - everyone does. But the novel is glorious, interesting, and timeless. No movie could do it justice. I suggest you treat yourself to reading the novel. This post would embarrass you.

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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
--Oscar Wilde

[–] Montmartre1 15 years ago

Life is often filled with sadness and tragedy for a great many people. We are not all the same, different things affect us differently.
Often people are their own worst enemy, as both Heathcliff and Cathy were.
Great fiction is filled with conflict. I write and the first thing I was told was i had to have conflicts for my characters. Understanding this and perhaps reading the novel might help many people to appreciate the power of this story.
Of course that is only my opinion, I don't begin to think you would like it no matter what I or or anyone said and btw you are entitled not to like it.

[–] TalosIV 15 years ago

OP claims to be 42 but all of his/her favorite films are from the 90s. Methinks we have a youngster here...and that's fine. Many younger people just don't click with older films. For many of them, it's like hearing a foreign language for the first time.

End of the world? So what.

[–] thegreatgazoo-1 15 years ago

I wouldn't say laughable but having just seen WH for the first time yesterday I came away unimpressed.

Several posters here are projecting the brilliance of the book onto the movie which I think is flawed thinking because a great movie should stand on its own. BTW, I haven't nor do I plan on reading the book.

Other posters have mentioned the movie doesn't live up to the book.

I tend to agree with the concept of the movie being rushed with no real development of the characters. I didn't really care at the end if Cathy and Heathcliffe lived or died.

Al this is IMO and you're free to ignore it.

Edit
So, a few days later after some research I learn the movie completely ignores the next generation aspect of the book. That explains the bizarre and rushed ending of the movie. In any event, I still think the movie is lame.

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[–] rrb 13 years ago

"This movie and story is laughable"
"...it's a very dull story and forgetful."

They're nothing compared to your grammar and cultural illiteracy. Now they are laughable.

[–] witster18 13 years ago

so what your saying is the characters on screen were just like the characters in the book...????

great movie...