This sure is a snoozefest isn't it? And Beatty's acting?

Everyone has their opinion. I happen to love it, but I have to be in a certain mood to see it because it's quite long. Very well done, Beatty deserved that Best Director Oscar.

It tells an interesting story, about real people. I enjoyed the "witnesses" anecdotes very much, except for the obnoxious George Jessel.

When they got Russia it got interesting...until then it was a snoozefest.

83 minutes of Rallys and Speeches could've been trimmed and nothing would've been lost. The older version of characters randomly being interviewed just really took me out of the movie. Could've made a tight montage toward the end to wrap it up.

~Keep on Trucking!~

I think that Beatty was distractingly bad with that vacuous half-smile on his face for most of the film. His "there" definitely wasn't "there".

I actually think Beatty is very good in this - after McCabe and Mrs Miller, I would say this is his best performance and he portrays Reed's initial boyish enthusiasm and later growing cynicism very well indeed.

The film is not perfect - it's much better as a fascinating recreation of history than as a romance - but Beatty, Keaton and the supporting cast make it rather special for all that. I'd rather sit through it again than Doctor Zhivago any day...

Agreed. I love those long epics from the 60's, but this was atrocious, could only take 1 hour of it.