MovieChat Forums > Cold Mountain (2003) Discussion > i LOVE this movie.

i LOVE this movie.

posted 10 years ago by bijinius
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...and probably for a great many of the reasons why so many of you HATE it. I love it's un-centered manner... it's least believable aspects are it's best, if you ask me. and, it NEEDS to be said, it's really quite unique (and at turns fantastically beautiful and battle-wrought and devastated) setting. it's a plain-as-all out southern fable, with a magical lady shaman of a deep southern wood, an old well that, with the right tools and know-how, will tell your future. I love that kind of thing - especially since most.. sigh... "historical dramas" are so horrifically prim and proper and, well... historical. Of course these things didn't happen, nor could they ever - that's what a fable is for.

Anyway, I'm watching it now, and I just thought I'd share a little bit of my feelings towards this particular gem. (If you're rolling your eyes because you simply CANNOT believe how corny it is, or how oscar-grubbing it all seems... well sir, permit me to say you might be reading it all wrong.)

[–] JaJa730 9 years ago

I couldn't agree more, well said.

[–] heyitsenricopollazo 9 years ago

It's a masterpiece

[–] Tommy711 (161) 3 days ago

It's fairly slow at the start, the accents aren't the best but you get used to them throughout the movie (Rene's was funny, but that was the point). The more violent scenes are quite hard-hitting, even for 2025. I thought Rene actually did a good job, but I can see how people maybe didn't like her character/acting, it was certainly a polarising role.

Thinking back I haven't watched many all-star casts recently (I think maybe in the last 5 years or so), so this was quite refreshing, especially as he's travelling back home and meeting all these new people and you recognise them!

The effects were really good, especially for a 2003 movie!

I gave it a 7/10. I wanted to give an 8/10 but actually I think the last quarter of the movie was maybe a tad bit rushed, I sort of wanted them to flesh out the relationship between Inman and Ada a bit more when they finally met up again. I do love a good unpredictable ending (maybe others cottoned on, but actually I didn't view the whole movie in one sitting so I probably forgot about some of the glaringly obvious signs he was going to die in the end, especially the well).

But yea it was just missing a bit more in the final 4th of the movie that would have just sealed the 8/10. A solid movie at 7/10, though, but I can see some other people's complaints in other threads as being valid.