What did you think

I was confused by a few things but will admit to leaving the room from time to time (I guess this is an indication of my level of engagement). What happened to the Shirley Maclaine character, Amelia Thomas? That wasn't at all clear to me. And why did that old housekeeper end up with Violetta?

I would have preferred to see more developement of the Amelia Thomas / Anne Shirley dynamics. They were the only interesting characters to me.

I hated it. Anne of Green Gables is my favourite series of novels EVER. I loved the first two movies, and I even liked the third one, although it did stray completely from the books. This movie, though, is a travesty to Montgomery and her novels. Half the time I just kept thinking that parts were blatantly stolen from the original (i.e. Anne and the boat, the raft in the movie, the apology to Mrs. Thomas, the apology Anne gave to Mrs. Lynde etc.). Some of it might have been nitpicking, but I actually felt like this movie destroyed the character of Anne. It almost felt like a Western, with that Nelly chick picking up Anne just in the nick of time, and the impossible destruction and explosion at the mill. WAY too overdramatic. And both actresses that played Anne just did not suit the role at all except for their red hair. I will stick to the first three movies and pretend this was never made.

I laughed out loud several times. The film was so far fetched, it was pathetic. I'm curiousy though, did anyone read the novel Before Green Gables? I tried reading it but I couldn't get into the style in which it was written. I thought this movie was based on that novel so i skipped the book with the intent of watching the film version. I'm thinking the book made more sense though.

Very disapointing that Anne's father was indeed alive. And the fact that Marilla had letters and never told her about them makes Marilla seem selfish and not the protector as intended. And don't get me started on Gilbert, dying during the second world war??? I don't think so. Not only does that destroy our idea that they lived a happy long life together, but the time frame doesn't even make sense. GIlbert and Anne's children went top world war I. I could ignore the time difference in the last film because the movie itself wasn't so bad, but this one is just plain sad.

I like so many others am a huge fan of the original movies and when I saw the commercials for this installment I was weary. I hate it when they remake or add sequels or prequels to cherished childhood movies that don't live up to the original, and in some cases actually take away from them. I think perhaps the worst part of this story was what happened to Gilbert. It kind of ruined my image of what happened to he and Anne. However, I did really like that we got to see Anne before she came to Green Gables. I thought it was an interesting take and basically enjoyed it. I do agree that there were too many stories going on and that perhaps that took away from the main plot a bit. While this version definitely doesn't match the original films, it was decent (in my opinion) and I would recommend seeing it.

I didn't like it. It had too many sub-plots and was very confusing at times. I have never read the AoGG books and have only seen bits and pieces of the movies, and I was very disappointed. The whole time I was thinking "Am I missing something?"

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too me there is only one anne, megan follows, she did it great. i'm finding it hard to grasp jayne eastwood who did mrs hammond years ago did her again when she's so much older. too bad patricia hamilton didn't have a bigger part.

I also hated this movie. Since I've been reading about and watching Anne since I was a little girl, I'm quite attached to her character. The characters I grew to love were the ones created by L.M.M. In the first two films that Kevin Sullivan made, I thought he did a good job of bringing these characters to life. But this film was awful. I want to know what's wrong with the books the L.L.M. wrote about the later life of Anne and Gilbert. I think the first two films were so successful because almost all aspects of them followed the books, although they changed the timing some and left out Anne going to college.

I think we grew to love Anne and the rest of Avonlea because we could relate to their lives. Their ups and downs were not catastrophic, earth-shattering events, but rather the type of things we all go through. Her books were character based, not event based. With this new movie, Sullivan is trying to add to much drama to a story that doesn't need it. The characters L.M.M. created are so well written, that they don't need a bunch of drama to make us interested in them. I was most interested in Anne when she's losing broaches, spraining her ankle, trying to get better grades than Gil, or accidently painting town halls blue.

I wish Sullivan would have made some more Anne movies based on the actual books, with Anne and Gilbert moving to another part of P.E.I. to start their family. I would love to see Anne running a household with her kids doing the same kind of things that she used to do and the relationship between her and Gilbert growing deeper as they grow together.

Did anyone else see young Jane Eyre in the asylum scenes? I almost didn't watch the rest of the movie.