I didn't grow up watching this version. I have no nostalgic feelings for it. I'm unbiased as you can be.
I watched them back to back and the new version is the better movie. The only thing this one did better is Claire Danes as Beth. Amy is underwritten in this version.
TRUTH...I HAVE NOSTALGIA FOR THE 90S VERSION,BUT THIS IS THE BETTER FILM...THE 90S VERSION HAS THAT HALF BAKED 90S SENSIBILITY TO IT.
shareI never liked the '94 version... Winona Ryder comes across as too modern and her performance can't hold a candle to Ronan's. I prefer the 2019 film to the 1933 Hepburn movie, too.
shareInteresting. Personally, I found the reverse to be true, that Ronan came across as too modern -- we rarely see her wearing a hat, she often wears her hair loose, and at one point she runs through the streets with her skirts hiked up to her knees. That would have been scandalous - almost indecent - in the 1860/70s, since a Victorian woman kept her hair tied back and her head and ankles covered when in public. Each time I saw Ronan with her hair down, I was pulled out of the scene and reminded that it was the 21st century.
YMMV, of course.
At least this version is not woke. And Christian Bale doesn't look like he taking estrogen supplements.
shareClaireDanes should have played Jo.
share1949 version is the best, followed by 2019 and then 1994. I love all three.
shareNo, it wasnt
shareJust for Saoirse Ronan and Florence Pugh's performances, no one in 1994 version comes close to those two. Timothee Chalamet ain't no Christian Bale but he's likeable enough (Funnily enough, Chalamet was actually older then Bale when he played Theodore. Bale was 20 and Chalament 24). You got Meryl Streep, Lauren Dern, James Norton, Louis Garrell, Eliza Scanlen, Emma Waston (always forget she's in this), Tracy Letts, Chris Cooper and Bob Odenkirk. Greta Gerwig did a amazing job at putting her own spin on the story.
I still think it's Gerwig best film to date.