What a waste of time


This empty excuse for a film (at least the first half, which is all I
could force myself to endure) might be of interest to those with no
discernment, but for anyone with a functioning brain, it's just another
worthless time-waster. The novel HAS to be better than this! Especially
offensive was the plug-ugly and deafeningly loud soundtrack.

The only reason I gave this even two stars is for the three leads, who
sometimes managed to transcend the simpleton-friendly adaptation,
especially Faye Dunaway, who was an absolute hoot.

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Should have watched it all before judging the film so harshly. Honestly what do you expect from Lifetime and Nora Roberts...Gone With the Wind? It is a fluff piece of work, however, I grew up in the 70's and the ABC Movie of the Week was often similar to this type of film. You could have always switched the channel and watched Legally Blonde for the umpteenth time. I cannot figure out with all of the great films that have been made why cable tv viewers are subjected to the same ole tired movies being shown over and over?

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The story was stupid when I read the book. Ms. Roberts was so wrong on her setting that it drove me nuts. ( I am from New Orleans.) People do not have Southern accents in New Orleans, but more of a New York accent. In the Bayou, they speak a form of Cajun,with no Southernisms unless they are originally from Alabama or Mississippi. She had her main charcter grocery shopping in the quarter when he had to live 45 minutes to an hour outside of the city. There are no major grocery stores in the quarter. As for the movie, one does not drive through the lower 9th to get to the bayou. You'd go I-10 and then turn south outside of town. Stupidity.

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Yeah,sounds like the writers had lost its way like Columbus,to be honest!!!!!

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The story was stupid when I read the book. Ms. Roberts was so wrong on her setting that it drove me nuts. ( I am from New Orleans.) People do not have Southern accents in New Orleans, but more of a New York accent. In the Bayou, they speak a form of Cajun,with no Southernisms unless they are originally from Alabama or Mississippi. She had her main charcter grocery shopping in the quarter when he had to live 45 minutes to an hour outside of the city. There are no major grocery stores in the quarter. As for the movie, one does not drive through the lower 9th to get to the bayou. You'd go I-10 and then turn south outside of town. Stupidity.

Exactly I totally agree w/your post I am from New Orleans as well..When I meet tourist they usually think I am from New York or Boston-- I guess they expect people from New Orleans to have a drawl, bc of the way Hollywood portrays Southerners.. Now there are certain parts that are considered Cajun country, like Vacherie, which where my husband has ALOT of family from there and they have heavy Cajun accents, but w/o that drawl..

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I totally agree with HHRHRRH. I am soooooo ashamed of myself for actually sitting and wasting 2 hours to watch this movie (if that's what you can call it). I've always been a big NR fan and will continue to be, but to make a movie out of a book that offers no depth but is big on fantasy - she has written so many books that would make good movies. Why she decided to try her hand on this one is beyond me. I've noticed that she always tries to cast "unknowns" for the majority of the actors, which is fine but when you have a movie that is horrible to begin with I would think she would have tried to put more popular actors in the roles. It just didn't pass muster for me, and I can't even give it 2 stars. When I finished reading "High Noon" my first response was "I would love to see this made into a movie"....so my hopes are high for the next one. If the cast would do some ACTING instead of acting like they are doing us a favor by providing entertainment for 2 hours, perhaps MB would have come off better. I truly hope the other two movies can make up for last night.

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Actually..they would do BETTER to cast unknowns but casting isn't their problem with this one as all three of the leads in this particular movie are proven actors. Faye Dunaway is multiple Oscar nominee and a winner. Jerry O'Connell, while usually sticking to the doofy role, is actually a decent actor and Lauren Stamile does a more than passable job on Grey's Anatomy. They are given NOTHING to work..no direction and the script is so horrible it should be an actual crime. It's not the source that's the problem. It's like if you go to the store and you buy the most perfect stake you've ever seen. You bring it home. You give it to your chef to cook. Sadly for your chef is actually a ditch digger from the prison up the road and he throws your perfect steak into pot of boiling beet juice for an hour and says "Here's your steak". You started OUT with good stuff..not YOUR fault..not the BUTCHER'S fault..certainly not the COW'S fault..

Same thing with the Nora Robert's movies. We need to hunt down that person who writes the screenplay and the director...those are the people at fault here.

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vargamor you said it perfectly. The book was fine but this movie was...well I dunno what the hell this was









Well, I'd love to stay and chat, but you're a total bitch.

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Well maybe they showed the Lower 9th because they wanted to include storm damage and such. In my opinion I enjoyed this one just for the simple fact that I was horribly disappointed wtih Northern Lights that ANYTHING was better than that. I'm looking forward to High Noon, but not as much as I was before, but I loved that book and hope they don't totally mutilate it like with Northern Lights.

So as I said, I enjoyed this one for the simple reason that it was a whole lot better than Northern Lights, critisize (sp?) or whatever but it was a whole lot better than Northern Lights. And come on, what do you expect from a low budget Liftime movie?

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They did not do a good job bringing Midnight Bayou to the screen on Lifetime.

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