The Beguiled (2017)

The Worst Film Ever

I'll tell you why so serious

I wanted to but couldn't!

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

This movie was crying out for the Peter Weir touch. Where was the sense of foreboding? The women/girls not only suppressed their emotions, they suppressed them from us too! The perpetual semi-darkness made for a very bleak house without any relief. Dark, murky interiors. I wished those candles cast more light! The back-lit window lighting became a distraction. And the colourless look of the film. Too many short scenes. Faces actually talking together rarely shown. Seemed to be only when it was consciously important. With such a powerhouse cast, film lacked a gothic sexual edge. What a great Australian movie this would have been with Weir directing and Kidman and Naomi Watts playing the leads (they could choose which part they wanted!). If you've seen Picnic At Hanging Rock you'll know what I'm talking about. And it too was set in a "girls academy." Special mention to Colin Farrell who really has a thankless role but shines. This film is probably worth more than I'm giving it but my disappointment in what could have been has to be registered! Worth a watch in order to come to your own conclusion.

This is yet another perfect example of very good movies being remade when there was no need to do a remake. The original 1971 movie is far and above a much better film, hands down. Critics were harsh in their review of Sofia's acting in The Godfather Part III, which I did not feel were warranted. That being said, her work behind the camera makes her acting chops appear even better. This is yet another Hollywood liberal whitewash of the past, even if it is fictional in its detailed context. God forbid a 2017 movie show a black woman slave or the intense sexual fantasies and encounters in the original film. Trying to rewrite history by sugarcoating what actually happened is yet another reason 21st Century Americans are turning out to be ignorant cowards. The star power this movie has can not save an unsatisfactory screenplay, direction and production. Another giant miss rehash by Hollywood just like The Longest Yard, The Getaway, Psycho, The Manchurian Candidate, The Goodbye Girl, etc.

Greetings from Lithuania."The Beguiled" (2017) is a good movie. It was very solidly directed, nicely written drama that kinda surprised me in a second half of the movie. I haven't saw the original, nor read the book, nor i intend to it. I liked this movie.Overall, craftsmanship of this movie was good. Acting was pretty good, although nothing that special. Set design was solid and like i said i liked the kinda unexpected turn the story made. This is a slow movie which won't please anyone that is for sure, but its a good movie - that i'm sure either.

War-torn Virginia, 1864. A wounded Union soldier is found by a local girl and finds shelter at a girls' school. Their intention is to nurse him back to health and then send him on his way but over time the relationship becomes more complicated.Directed by Sofia Coppola, not bad, but not that good either. The original movie, released in 1971, was directed by Don Siegel and starred Clint Eastwood as the Union solider. While not brilliant, it was reasonably engaging and had a clever, powerful twist at the end.This, the 2017 version, is not overly engaging, feeling quite dry, a purely linear telling of events. The plot isn't exactly the same as the 1971 movie, effectively adding another act beyond the conclusion of Sigel's movie. The added-on portion is fairly interesting, but the conclusion doesn't pack the same punch that Siegel's movie did.