Quite simply, the OP's comment is simply a textbook example of film "appreciation" with a total lack of perspective, a myopic and ignorant message of a troglodytic mole burping out another one of his/her pathetic views on a much celebrated cinematographic version of one of the most highly regarded novels of English literature, a bona fide classic in the true essence of the word. Not that this should count in the first place for any review, but still, as many correctly pointed out, thousands and thousands of intelligent, well-informed and well-educated persons simply cannot be wrong about the merits and superb qualities of "Wuthering Heights". I have read it in its original version (I'm a native French speaker, and I had to read it in its original form, no matter the difficulty of the highly sophisticated level of the use of English. The patience I had to deploy reading it in its English form was well rewarded.
I still have to see that version, although I saw the one starring Binoche and Fiennes - which I judged fair (Binoche's acting ruins any role she plays). But to pronounce the truly absurd ex cathedra judgment about the story, well, I can't imagine the script being bad to the point that it reduces the plot to the degree of absurdity that the OP sees in it... And Olivier has managed to turn everything to gold throughout his career, and I seriously doubt that he would have accepted to be part of a project as bad as the OP says it is !
Of course I want to watch that version of WH, and the point of my post is to react strongly against that type of judgments on the quality of films where you need to relativize: using the appropriate historical perspective when judging any film should be a universal, mandatory reflex for anyone posting at ImDB :-) or anywhere anyhow at any time !! Love during the Victorian era or in the XIXth century was a TOTALLY different business, to say the least, so forgetting about this - or worse, behaving as though one completely ignores it, says volumes about how seriously one should consider such an opinion... Yes, love at first sight was seemingly common back in those days, not because people were more romantic or naive or had purer sentiments: more simply because of that gigantic reservoir of repressed sexuality that constantly threatened to burst open ---- oops! A man and a woman with hot libido flowing down their spine to their every extremities, but who simply could not achieve a fully satisfactory outlet for their boiling bodily fluids - as Brig. Gen. Jack Ripper of Dr. Strangelove's fame would have it - outside the holy matrimony, well, these two turgescent folks had to act fast and love at first sight as well as early and expeditive marriages were commonplace for the sake of everyone's sanity. As everyone knows, Freud was right, at least in part, in focusing on sexual dysfunction as the source of more or less mild mental illness.
In brief, ignoring the historical context here in judging the core of the story of "Wuthering Heights" is frighteningly moronesque, to say the least.
Ah well... this is a free forum, and one must live amongst crass ignorance ! I will defend the quality of movies and of the works that inspired them too when I see it blatantly denied by mere ignorance. Otherwise, what's the poinbt of a place like ImDB? I see forums like this one too often sink down to the lowest common denominator that defines the behavior of a crowd of people freely expressing themselves without an effective leadership... It's an expected, normal phenomenon, but that does not mean that we have to witness that free system self-destructing itself in a Darwinian sort of way !
Sorry for my ranting, folks. Aren't you sometimes scared like me by the sheer magnitude of the ignorance that self-exhibits on this forum (and other than ImDB just as well)? And how many times OPs seize star status by shamelessly making total fools of themselves with pointless threads that ALWAYS unfold in the same way, more or less the variety of humor that is, fortunately, added to it, and ALWAYS reflect pure lack of judgment or worse, total ignorance. Now, that's a real calamity and a real threat to quality time that one may expect to spend here :-)
I just hope that if we are enough to show outrage, those who truly seek to share and exchange freely but sensibly about movies and movie making will feel less helpless in the face of ignorance and moron-y ^-)
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