Whilst I only gave it a 7/10 it was a highly talked about movie. I was suprised by the low vote tally and overall score.
What does everyone else think?
This is one of the many incomprehensible ratings that have been showing up on IMDB lately. In its early days I didn't notice so many, but as the months and the years roll up and more votes total in, the ratings no longer have much meaning.
I think the majority of the newer voters have no sense of what makes a good story-film. Many of the newer top rated films seem to be those filled with so many special effects that both the characters and the plot needed to be left out. There just wasn't time for them.
Take a look at the top 250. About 60% really belong to what was once called "B-Movies."
"C'est la vie," as Gerard would say.
Ralph
I gave it a 2. It left me cold. The romance was not believable. I have seen any number of fine films. This is not one of them. I do not criticize anyone for liking it. I just state my opinion.
shareactually a 6/10 is pretty accurate
I remember seeing scenes of thie movie throughout my younger teenage years and never got down to seeing the whole thing, whenever it was on TV I always paused for at least a 1/2 hour before changing the channel but it was always somewhere in the middle, I never could catch the thing from start to end which I just did today
overall the movie is far from a 4/5 star rating, a 2 1/2 or 3 star rating is pretty appropiate, I didn't like how it ended, espeically the song they picked, was that suppose to go along with this whole Africa thing?
I'm surprised it even got a 6. I guess it's just not my genre or something, or maybe it's because Annie McDowell can't act, or perhaps because the story was contrived, not to mention extremely boring. Anyway, I gave it a 5 because some of the observations it makes about marriage took me by surprise, and it was occasionally funny. But the 'romance' between the two was highly unbelievable.
It's very off-topic, but can someone explain why here in the UK this was rated 15? I wouldn't recommend it to anyone of any age, but still . . .
. . . closing walls and ticking clocks . . .
because the story was contrived, not to mention extremely boring.
It was just on here on Swiss national telly and I'm giving it a 7. I think a 6 would be underrated and 8 just slightly too high.
Es gibt nichts Gutes, ausser man tut es. (Erich Kästner)
My now late husband and I went to the theatre to see this turkey and we felt like asking for our money back. The movie was stupid,disconnected, and just totally uninteresting. We went to a lot of movies in the 90's and this one rated down there in the pits with the Doors movie.
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I have loved this movie for years, but for some reason it leaves a lot of people cold. I would imagine that in order to find it compelling, you must find Gerard Depardieu attractive, which many people don't. He is an acquired taste, and his appeal is based on something so visceral and inherently masculine that the younger generation today will never see it. Their waxed pedicured metrosexual heartthrobs wouldn't last two seconds onscreen with Gerard. He is divine in this film.
shareI agree petallic! Gerard Depardieu is a fantastic actor and makes Andie MacDowell look good in this! I find him attractive but it's his charm that lights up the screen.
I think the romance is believeable - Georges is completely different to anyone Bronte has ever met before. She has led a straight, boring life and in comes this crazy guy to lighten her up a bit.
But the best thing about this film is the ending... after getting together Georges is deported. Not your conventional Hollywood ending and a reason why many people dislike it. But I love it - it's still a happy ending. Bronte will leave her greenhouse and NYC - both of them know this!
I love the closing song, 'Keep your eyes on the prize' - very uplifting and hopeful!
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"Pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked." JANE AUSTEN
Yes! I also think that Eyes on the Prize is meant to suggest that "everything is gonna be alright" for George and Bronté.
shareThis was a very good romantic movie. Gerard Depardieu was charming and excellent in his role of Georges. GC definitely deserves a higher rating!
shareI gave it a low score as it's a rip off of "A Paper Wedding" released the year before. Originality must come into the scoring system.
shareIt is indeed underrated. Basically, you don't give less then 7 to a movie with such a good acting (Depardieu), simple but well directed story, and very funny scenes and characters.
shareMasculine? This guy? I grew up thinking that John Wayne was masculine as was Sidney Poitier, Omar Sharif, and others of the 50's and 60's. I am not one of the younger generation. What are you smoking to think he is masculine?
shareI'm a big fan of rom-coms/romantic dramas etc but for some reason I never caught up with Green Card until this weekend.
Now that I have, I'm not surprised it's got a low score.. I must admit I was a bit disappointed and certainly expected more from what is (afaik) a well-regarded movie.
I'm certainly not the sternest critic of movies, I tend to just enjoy watching them and overlook much in the way of mistakes, but, wow, this movie is all over the place.
It's never explained why Bronte marries Georges; he needs the Green Card, fair enough, but she just marries him so that she can get the apartment? she would participate in a fake marriage to get an *apartment* (ok, it's a cool apartment, but come on. I'm sure she could find somewhere else with a garden)??? So why didn't she just marry Phil? I also couldn't relate to the apartment committee - does that sort of vetting still go on?
Talking of Phil, where did he disappear to? He just walks away?
As the Goofs section says, a quick glance at Georges passport would blow his Africa story out of the water - MAJOR plot hole - as would a request to see his elephant pics.
Why is Georges wearing a Rolex? How does he know how to play the piano and to quote poetry? Is he rich, but slumming it? Or an educated bad boy? both interesting storylines, but unexplored. Ultimately, despite the tried and tested Hollywood "opposites attract" storyline, I didn't buy the idea that Bronte would fall for Georges. Why would she?
The ending is pretty garbled too.
Nah, not a bad movie, but I think 6.. maybe 5.5, is about right.
"Its embrassingly low particularly as "The Proposal" which is a disney version of this film has scored so highly."
Remember, every character in the Proposal has a cell-phone attached to their heads.
That seems to be the criteria here for which movies recieve the highest ratings.
Also, there's no CGI...so the younger camp just can't relate.
*applauds*
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