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Love Ford, hate this movie.

posted 16 years ago by Unfrzncavmnlwyr9
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HGWMV is easily the worst of Ford's classics and a prime example of too much plot. Events, characters come and go: we won't see characters for upwards of 30 minutes. No storyline is ever really fully developed. Valley is basically a technically sound soap opera sans the quirkiness and charms of Sirk. The longest 118 minutes spent in my life. The Grapes of Wrath was such a better adaptation, as it had a pulse and fully fleshed characters: not a half assed plot and random melodrama. Wrath builds, this hops about.

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[–] CarolVickiFan84 16 years ago

I love Ford and love the movie

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[–] weenyboy 14 years ago

I agree with the original poster. I read so much about how great this film was, but me and the person I watched it with both found it quite meandering and without much emotional impact. And Maureen had way too little screen time!

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[–] Errington_92 13 years ago

While I enjoyed the film in terms of acting and storyline, at times it felt as if a point was being forced across to the audience. This point being that we should stick by traditional values, for example lead by Christ's example. To me it came off as propaganda in retaliation of the Axis forces beliefs.

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[–] itsahoverboard 12 years ago

This is exactly right. No focus in the movie, just a bunch of different scenes set in a small coal mining town strung together.

[–] pocomarc 12 years ago

Unfrzncavmnlwyr9 takes the cake for the most clueless post I have seen on imdb.

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