Didn't Like It


You know how a classic movie gets so much attention that you want to see it? I had never seen From Here to Eternity until recently and I was quite disappointed in it. This movie is EXTREMELY overrated.

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What is it you didn't like? The story lines, the acting, the setting? Or did the flawed characters turn you off?

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You must be around 15 years old - or decidedly immature...

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I just finished watching it. Didn't care for it much, was overrated. Some acting performances were very good.

I am a movie buff, enjoy many classics and newer films as well.

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Semi-watching it now - keep changing to else - wondering why I care about any of these characters: all are tedious, average. Doubtless the book is much better.

Seems terribly dated.

I too enjoy movies made LONG before I was born. I vaguely recall as a young child wondering how TV could pay for these movies -- not at all getting the whole business construct. Maybe I was ? 8-10 when I figured out people USED to go to that movie in a theater - 20-30-xx years before, etc.

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That comment alone is quite immature. So he doesnt like it. Big deal.

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Of course, no one's required to like any particular movie; however, when they show up with the "it's extremely overrated" statement, but offer no argument as to how they arrived at that conclusion, they're asking to get slammed.

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I was about fifteen when I read the book which was much more realistic than the film.

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Why won't you read the book?

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I love that film. Everyone in that film gave a great performance. It has everything u want in a film. War, love, friendship, a famous love scene on a beach, ..what else do u need.

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Likable characters.

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Because of when the film was made it was heavily censored.

James Jones based the book on his time in the army during World War II and the US Army was upset about the factual depiction of soldiers as hard living, hard drinking, profane men
whose main activity was gambling and looking for sex.

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Didn't Like It


This OVERRATED film won eight OSCAR in 1953, five nominated, two Golden Globes
and a special Cannes prize for his director Fred Zinnemann.

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