I kid you not, I have never heard anyone tell me that they actually like this movie. I didn't care for it and I'm wondering is it just me and my circle or do people just not like this movie in general? I still can't believe this won best picture over "Fargo"
shareWell, I will tell you now that I not only like this movie, but love it! It is one of the best and most tragic love stories ever filmed [or written, as its from an excellent novel] and it deserved all the accolades it got IMO. Only pity was for me that the very deserving and often ignored Ralph Fiennes didn't win an oscar for his acting. I really enjoyed "Fargo", [and Frances McDormant thoroughly deserved her best actress awards], but it was nowhere near what I felt and still feel for "The English Patient". I own the dvd and quite often watch it again.
shareLoved this movie when I was 18 or 19 and love it now at 34. It made such an impression then but I didn't grasp quite why. Having traveled and learned so much between now and then really helps have enough schema to catch all the beautiful details that are beyond the sheer beauty of the film. Not sure how anyone could not like it to be honest...
shareYou're not alone. When this movie came out and then won the Oscar, I was very excited to see it because I was a big fan of Ralph Fiennes. I wanted to like it so much, but it turned out to be one of my biggest movie disappointments. I fell asleep multiple times during the viewing and each time I tried to wake up and concentrate on the movie, but MY GOSH was it boring. One of the most boring movies I've ever seen if not the most. I can't believe this movie got nominated, let alone won the Oscar over "Fargo".
shareI love it. I don't know how any film lover couldn't.
What we have here is failure to communicate!share
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I watched this when I was a teenager and in my mother language and to be honest I did not understand much. I think many things lost in translation. Now I am older and quite fluent in English. So I gave it another try and I loved it. It is one of the very few films I was generous enough to give 9 out of 10. And I don't score films based on the big names and awards etc. I score them based on their effect on me and their re-watchability (hope that is a real word).
shareIt became fashionable among unoriginal people to make fun of this movie after the Seinfeld episode in which Elaine said he hated it.
the point of that was that Elaine was the ONLY person that didnt like it, and everyone around her loved it, and wouldnt stop talking about it
rabble rabble!share
"If you saw a movie once & didn't care for it, why would you come to its chat board 14 years later? "
That really is an excellent point.
And OP as for liking it, I liked it, thought it was a decent movie, by no means a great in MY opinion. Its rated pretty highly on IMDb so you should except a lot of fans of it..
At first I thought it was pretty good. Not great, and probably not deserving of a Best Picture Oscar, but pretty good. Then, after the Oscar nominations were announced, and neither "Evita" nor the Branagh "Hamlet" were among the Best Picture nominees (and got very few nominations), I began to dislike it. And I ended up detesting it after it swept the Oscars and prevented either "Hamlet" or "Evita" from winning Oscars for Art Direction or Cinematography.
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