Underrated


This film is considerably better than its current imdb rating of 6.8/10.

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I think it's the pacing of the film, which was a little long at times (then again, I was watching it at 1 am) but I think worth every minute. I enjoyed it a lot and I felt that the stillness of the film, how the acting was underplayed, was right for this movie.

This film is as much a love letter to Ava Gardner's beauty as it is to the majestic Spain. It's as though Ernest Hemingway made a fairy tale and this is the adaptation.

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What a lovely post - Goodbye Ruby Tuesday - about a beautiful film.

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I don't know about the men that have seen this movie but being a woman I can say for my part that they don't get better than this when it comes to a love story! This movie takes us beyond the norm with Mz Gardener and Mr Mason playing their parts to perfection, I can just picture the scene at the end when she knows that death is on its way and she still holds fast to the love she is giving her life for !!!This movie can mezmerize me, I do not want to see it in color, I believe it would take away the rawness of the film itself.One of my very favorite, all time movies.

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I do agree with the above posters. This film is very under-rated. One of my all-time favorites.

foster1-2, this film was originally shot in Technicolor and to my knowledge, there isn't a B&W in existance, how did you see it in B&W in the first place?!

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It was in color in both preview and full-length when i saw it in 1954.

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It's one of the finest examples of Technicolor, helmed by the great Jack Cardiff.

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I saw it on TCM last night, and it was underrated there too. They gave it only 2 1/2 stars.
I remember this film from my days of watching The Late Show as quietly as possible so my parents wouldn't know I was out of bed...I loved it then, and so I sat through last night despite TCM's rating. It was well worth it.

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Tcsung, I thought I was the only one who did that, lol. I don't remember seeing "Pandora", though, and I'm sure I would have remembered it!

P.S. Most of the time I'd get caught because I'd get hungry (and ballsy, lol) and start making popcorn while watching, in the middle of the night!

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Hadn't seen it in a number of years and really enjoyed it, especially with Cardiff's Technicolor photography restored by the Eastman House. I did find that the use of soft-focus for Gardner's close-ups gave the overall proceedings a bit of unevenness, though

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I agree it's low but who cares about the user rating? I can kind of understand the rating though - the first time I saw it I had a middling reaction. But on second viewing I liked it a lot more. It's a strange, intriguing, visually pleasing movie.

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I just saw this film for the first time today - I taped it off tv and it had an introduction by Bill Collins where he said it was one of his favourite films.

I really loved it - I didn't find it slow at all, it was beautifully made and sort of mesmorising. Must see if I can get it on dvd now for some repeat viewings! I would give the film 8/10.

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The look of the film is great and few films have the feeling of a fable like this one does, but the plot is so predictable.

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You meant "mythic", not "predictable"!

I adore this movie, it's one of the most haunting, atmospheric, poetic films ever made.

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As if...

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