A terrible film that bored me to tears

I like Matrix, Payback, and Monsters Inc. I like this too. Maybe if you can only see Anthony as Monster; but if you really watched this and liked this time of movie; I'm sure you'd like it as much as I did.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion and yours is respected, Critic-Girl. Fortunately for me, I know that the love affair between C.S. Lewis and Joy is indeed realistic: I am part of just such a relationship myself. Ours is anything but tedious and has made a miracle of every day that we live. My husband is 22 years my senior, a former university professor, a man who makes me understand that life doesn't have to be "normal" or "conventional" and that taking risks and meeting adversity head-on can mean a better life. This film is for everyone who subscribes to the same view and isn't stuck in the ruts that stereotyping and typecasting can create.

This film is my alltime favorite....sweet, romantic and honest. I loved Anthony Hopkin's performance! I own this movie and have watched it over and over again.....

I guess you are entitled to your taste in movies, but I think calling this a 'sentimental piece of Hollywood candyfloss' is to be blind to both Hopkins' brilliance in portraying Lewis AND the real love story behind this movie. I think Hopkins truly brought out what Lewis wrote about in "A Grief Observed" - a man seemingly with answers to everything (Christian) yet confounded by love, and having to deal with his impending loss.
I guess you haven't seen "Remains of the Day", "Howard's end" or even "The Elephant man", if you see only Lecter or Nixon in Anthony Hopkins.

Not enough explosions for you?

Why must people in general, and Critic-Girl in particular, express an opinion as a categorical statement? It's not strong enough to say you didn't like this or that; it must be "one of the worst" or "one of the best".

And why must every film that is bad (or in this particular case, "bad") be symptomatic of the vapid and soul-sucking Hollywood film industry? Anytime a humane, profound, moving film is released, it's an anomoly; we save our weeping and gnashing of teeth for the truly dire, then claim nothing worthwhile is ever made. Which of course is nonsense.

I don't think the film in question here is especially dire. I quite liked it. My problem, which I'm not sure I've expressed adequately, is not that Critic-Girl disliked the film; it's that some people give their criticisms in the form of pronouncements with no superlative left untouched. It's like the flip side of those blurbs in movie ads -- whose source is nothing you've ever heard of -- stating that, say, "Surviving Christmas" is a "rollicking, fun-filled ride!" Hyperbole doesn't add strength to an assertion; it weakens the argument, which in this instance is actually cogent and well put, overstatements aside.

Just a thought...

~Most people confuse their opinions with the truth.~

Goodness me, what profundity!

Seriously though: Did you expect any type of reply other than the ones you received? Some more tame, some making no attempt to conceal their indignation at your expression of contempt for both the film and Hopkins' performance?

Well, as C.S. Lewis said: "Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world." And "Outrageous remarks are sensationalists' megaphone to rouse an otherwise indifferent public."

Congratulations!

I have to agree with Critic Girl- this was one of the slowest, most pretentious films I've ever seen. And I do love deep, meaningful movies. I just felt this wasn't one of them.