David Lean's Great Expectations BD 6/16

[KrugerIndustrial]

Originally Posted by KrugerIndustrial

Hmm. Watched this last night. Enjoyed it but also slightly disappointed. Don't quite know how to feel about this.

Originally Posted by KrugerIndustrial

Film. I mostly enjoyed it but now I'm thinking..am I really going to visit this film often enough to keep it in my collection?

Originally Posted by djvaso

You could ask this question for every other title in your collection. This movie is high rated in different top 100 British films lists.

Originally Posted by KrugerIndustrial

That is your opinion.

Originally Posted by The Driver

Wow, this is the sort of insight Blu-ray.com brings us! An real opinion, **** me

Great Expectations isn't going to be for everyone. There's plenty of information out there on it and it's not like the artwork is hiding anything. I think it's a wonderful film.

I hate 100s of films and think 1000s more are complete shit and -yes- it's just an opinion.

Learn to discern a bit more. Save you money and time it will.

Wow.

Talk about communication breakdown, eh?

First of all I've read Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. I love it. And I've read Svet's review(which was great by the way). Of course I knew what this film was about. But I had never seen David Lean's adaptation of it.

Secondly, I never said I didn't like the film. I did. Occasionally even loved it. But as a person who's read the original novel multiple times I couldn't help but to notice how much more superficial the characters were and Pip wasn't the central figure on the novel like he is here.

David Lean's Great Expectations is a great film on its own. Great acting and a good story. Perhaps Mills was a tad too old to play Pip but it's easily excusable because of his acting and chemistry with Hobson. But it's far from perfect as an adaptation(even though it is the best adaptation of the novel so far).To me, Dickens novels don't feel, like Sylin mentioned, 'at home' on film. Two hours simply is not enough.

So, yes, I was disappointed but not because it was a bad film but because I probably was expecting too much.

I should've been a bit clearer on my first post(s). Maybe you get my point now.

Peace?