5.9? c'mon people! this movie was better than that. It's very likeable sentimental movie that can touch anyone, no matter what age or gendar you are. There is no reason to look for a flaws or something like that. Just accept like it is. People usually analyze films too much.
I saw it today and cried like a baby in the end :) (I'm 23 y.o straight guy BTW)
Vanilla Sky = Masterpiece
agreed! and just fyi, i am a 57 year old straight married woman, and i cry, too, at the end. tell me this film doesn't appeal to a wide an varied audience! should be rated an 8 or better, imho.
shareI remember when this film came out 15 years ago it got mostly negative reviews. But I still wanted to see this film because of its "time travel" element. I think this film had some good points. The time travel/ cryogenics concept was good. Also strong points in the film were some of the acting and the mystery as to why the main character was frozen for over 50 years. However, the love story was a bit schmaltzy and the ending I felt was quite hackneyed. Also I would have liked them to better explain why Mel was not awakened sooner. I think this is quite a good film, but not an excellent one. I actually wrote a novella based on this film when I was in high school. It basically was Forever Young about a spoiled teenage girl. That story involved a 17 year old girl living in 1966 who decides to participate in a cyrogenics experiment after her dad loses his high paying job because she is promised $250,000 to participate in it and does not want to become poor. She is only supposed to be frozen for six months but instead lies asleep for 33 years until a student at her high school (my character in the story) wakes her up in 1999. I took her in and tried to solve the mystery as to why she was not awakened on time. I discovered this whole case involving the doctor who did the cyrogenics experiments having faked his own death and his stepson having fled to Canada to avoid the Vietnam draft. And the ending in my story was also changed. At first I thought of having this girl die from the shrinking of her organs as the result of her deep freeze but then I decided to give it a happy ending and say that we live happily ever after.
shareI remember when this film came out 15 years ago it got mostly negative reviews. But I still wanted to see this film because of its "time travel" element. I think this film had some good points. The time travel/ cryogenics concept was good. Also strong points in the film were some of the acting and the mystery as to why the main character was frozen for over 50 years. However, the love story was a bit schmaltzy and the ending I felt was quite hackneyed. Also I would have liked them to better explain why Mel was not awakened sooner. I think this is quite a good film, but not an excellent one. I actually wrote a novella based on this film when I was in high school. It basically was Forever Young about a spoiled teenage girl. That story involved a 17 year old girl living in 1966 who decides to participate in a cyrogenics experiment after her dad loses his high paying job because she is promised $250,000 to participate in it and does not want to become poor. She is only supposed to be frozen for six months but instead lies asleep for 33 years until a student at her high school (my character in the story) wakes her up in 1999. I took her in and tried to solve the mystery as to why she was not awakened on time. I discovered this whole case involving the doctor who did the cyrogenics experiments having faked his own death and his stepson having fled to Canada to avoid the Vietnam draft. And the ending in my story was also changed. At first I thought of having this girl die from the shrinking of her organs as the result of her deep freeze but then I decided to give it a happy ending and say that we live happily ever after.
I agree with you ginmoses, This movie is very romantic and should be rated more...
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It should be rated MUCH higher..
Biggest problem though is that too many young men vote on this site and the majority hate almost every sentimental movies that comes along.
See my earlier comment. This film got negative reviews, even from professional film critics, when it was first released. I remember Siskel and Ebert giving it two thumbs down, even though it seemed to me to be a good film.
shareBah. Ebert. The only thumb-up he has is the one in his ass.
Bite Me.
I agree with the OP. This film is a little bit underrated.
I wish I could back up and start all over
Yep...it's a little hard to take Roger Ebert serious...when his biG claim to the movies was his script for "Beneath the Valley of The Dolls". He also wrote "Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens".
How could he possible pan others films after writing THAT?!
it deserves def. more than 5.9...I love this movie
why is the rum always gone???
much, much more than a 5.9
"..But dude, if i've watched it, it's gotta be a classic.."
I loved it and I'm a 32/single/white/bisexual/male/swinger.
Ebert gave it 2 1/2 stars, thought it was predictable but enjoyed the performances and message. Maltin gave it 3 stars saying "...may play out by the numbers as it tugs at your heartstrings, but is hard to resist thanks to a charismatic cast". Which are basically my thoughts as well.
I think it is underrated, it is nice pleasant film, not perfect by all means but I liked it.
"Life after death is as improbable as sex after marriage"- Madeleine Kahn(CLUE, 1985)
Beforehand I had read that the reviews for Forever Young was mixed. Once I had seen it I thought it was better than I had expected, Mel Gibson gave a good performance of a man trying to find out what when wrong whilst sticking to his principals. Yet the narrative did float around once it reached with 1992. I would have preferred the narrative to focus more on Daniel trying to find Harry which instead became a sub - plot to the dealings of Claire and Nat.
"I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not".
I agree its underrated. Great movie.
shareat least a point higher I would say. Its a cozy film but nothing spectacular.
shareYeah, it's gone up to 6.3 now but that's still not enough should be at 7.1 at least
We don't have a dog. That was just some really violent sex.