Dorian Gray (2009)

I love this movie so much

Good movie but grossly overrated

Absolutely the worst movie.

Absolutely Fantastic

I have read this book so many times because I love the intricate told story of the soul, vanity, of a young man and how he becomes corrupt over time. I don't agree with the negative reviews of the movie, of course the movie is never as good as a book, but I thought this movie did capture the book very well. I loved Ben Barnes as Dorian, and thought he was the PERFECT actor to play Dorian Gray. He also showed depth in the role, and gave the character a multi-faceted personality. As a real fan of the book, I loved this movie and thought it was very well done. Hopefully, I did not give away any spoilers! I also thought the other characters were well developed and similar to the book characters! I loved this movie!

I love The Picture of Dorian Gray, I love Colin Firth, I love Oscar Wilde. But I literally hate this movie. I'm wondering if the producer actually read the book or he just get this idea from somebody else and thought "Changing picture? Cool!". He changed every single details, and those details are so important to build this story. All I got from this movie was a beautiful young man who wanted to be beautiful forever, nothing else. I even didn't see his struggle or regret or worried or any complicated thing at all. His feeling was very deep. The Picture of Dorian Gray is a great book, one of my favourites. And I'm sorry, this movie is like a joke.

Dorian Gray is the sort of film that receives a lot of hype at its release, including the promising new acting talent, and then quickly vanishes into obscurity, in this case taking the 'promising new acting talent' with it, never to be seen again.Both, the film and Ben Barnes, clearly failed to live up to people's expectations. Nothing against Ben Barnes personally, he may be a good actor but talented is something else. Good looks just aren't enough. I don't want to go into too much detail here about how it's not the most faithful adaptation of the novel, etc., but watching Dorian Gray you get the impression they were trying to come up with a fresh interpretation of Oscar Wilde's famous novel, but didn't quite know how to go about it.The one thing keeping this film from being a total let-down is Colin Firth (no surprises there), although it has to be said that his performance is a bit more lacklustre than we're used to. Still, he hopelessly out-acts everybody, most of all Ben Barnes. The kid just doesn't stand a chance. Colin Firth has the only script worth mentioning, although his character's pretentious one-liners do start to grate half-way though the film. Other than Firth there is nothing in or about this film that stands out, or makes it a worthwhile exercise.In a nutshell: it's bland, it's boring and it does test your patience on a few occasions. Dorian Gray is not the kind of film you should have seen at some point in your life. If you have, chances are you'll have liked it, but are in no rush to see it again any time in the foreseeable future ... or, indeed, ever. It's the kind of film you want to watch relaxing on an evening, without having to think too much, and then feeling afterwards that you should've watched something else instead. It leaves you strangely dissatisfied.Worth a look but ultimately leaves you wondering, 'why did they bother?'

I decided to watch this film some days after I read "The Picture of Dorian Gray". If you watch the film and haven't read the book, you will probably find it an OK movie. However, if you have read the book, this adaptation will leave you disappointed.The original storyline by Oscar Wilde is very good, so I do not see why the adaptation went so far from it. I have nothing against a modern touch, but here the original ending is changed to a large extent. If the author wanted a girl to change Dorian, or a whole new second part, he would have written it himself.The character of Basil had some very strong lines in the book, but in the movie he just seems like a weird artist. Also, the scenes which show Dorian among naked women were, to me, totally irrelevant.However, I have to say that Barnes was OK as Dorian. Even if he could have shown some more character development, his acting was not bad. Also, Firth was really good as lord Henry, I would like it if he had more lines.I'd give a generous 5 out of 10.