A terrible film that bored me to tears

Critic girl, i am normally the first to say each to their own and do not criticise personal taste, but you have no taste at all lol
Seriously this film did have some minor things that made it less than perfect, and in my opinion its no where the film of Remains of the day, which is as near to perfect as you get, but the way you slate this film meakes me wonder if your top ten films are not all action movies and all made in hollywood? I almost bet thats the case...take a step outside Critical lass
gareth

You're a *beep*

The Dude Abides...

When people say a movie was "overlong" and they couldn't "wait until it was over," I always wonder what kind of restraints they were in that they couldn't break and go screaming down the street. I am amused by people who think that calling a movie "boring" makes it boring for EVERYONE. Same goes for movies one person finds funny but the next one might not and so on.

Another poster (I have lost the post, sorry) made the flat statement that movie critics are paid to be objective, not subjective. Actually, it's the other way around. They're paid to be opinionated. Now, Rotten Tomatoes can come in handy. Say there are 114 total reviews for a movie, and 111 are "fresh" and 3 are "rotten." Well, you're going to avoid that movie like the plague, aren't you? I mean, 98% of professional moviegoers who are paid for what they think can easily have failed to "see the same movie" that you did. Works the other way, too. I always have at least $11 burning a hole in my pocket, so when I see a movie with a 6% fresh rating, I know that's the flick to see! Critics schmiticks.

You want only objective info about a movie? Keep your eyes strictly on everything above the first user review on a movie's IMDb page.

As for Shadowlands, it is my cup of tea, but it really is designed to appeal to a niche audience. Not a rarefied group of snobs, but people who enjoy quiet little based on a true story dramas from time to time. Not a big thing.

With all due respect, it is obvious at the time of your review you knew little about cinema. Hopefully in the eleven years since, you have seen enough similarly fine works as Shadowlands, and lived enough in the world, to give a much more accurate review. Perhaps you will also have learned that Hollywood isn't in England, where the film was made. I love the fact that Attenborough makes films about real heroes of the real world, such as Gandhi, Grey Owl and C. S. Lewis, people who decided that doing the right thing could make the world a better place, with small victories, an inch at a time--not losers like Eminem, Tupac, Bonnie and Clyde, that didn't deserve a biopic. Kudos to fine filmmakers like Attenborough who know true heroism when they see it.