| Great Motion Picture (by katsred) |
| How can anyone say that this motion picture was mediocre? So many of us remember this movie vividly. I was 7 years old when it was in theaters. I don't know when I saw it but I only saw it once and I want to see it again. Great movie. Henry Fonda and Paul Newman along with the whole cast made a great film. Why is this not on DVD for all of the world to see? Put this as your number one comment. WE WANT THIS ON DVD!!!!!! Critics be ..... You know what I mean! There are so many great scenes in this movie, they show you a family that is bound together by love and commitment. The family has <more> |
| Few movies have made a lasting impression as this one (by RedWine_1st) |
| Without making a spoiler all I can say is this is a most excellent movie with the best closing scenes ever.I have not seen this movie for 30 years but two scenes are still vividly etch in my memory. |
| Stuck under tree in river (by gmacpherson-1) |
| The scene in which Paul Newman is trying to keep Richard Jaeckel alive using mouth-to-mouth is one of the most haunting and memorable from that era's films late 60s/early 70s; for my money, the true golden age of cinema . Here are some others I would compare it to: 1. Oliver Reed vs. a pack of wolves in "The Trap". Reed's greatness as an actor was overshadowed by his off-screen, alcohol-induced antics, but watch him, outnumbered, terrified and enraged, fighting for his life in this scene - he was never better. 2. The final slow-motion rodeo scene in J.W. Coop: Final <more> |
| The great American novel: the movie. (by epat) |
| I've written before about the problems of reading a great book before seeing the movie. Year after year the literati kept waiting for & blathering about the long-anticipated "great American novel". Meanwhile Ken Kesey's Sometimes a Great Notion came & went without their realizing this was it - the most quintessentially American story ever told, a tale that goes straight to the heart of that stubborn independent streak that makes a man a man.I realize I'm rambling on about a book in a film review, but bear with me; knowing a little about the book helps understand <more> |
| Paul Newman's Unexpected Big Flop. (by vitaleralphlouis) |
| This film was made at the peak of Paul Newman's career, when he was young, handsome, and had the ways that made him a star. It's a good movie about a family of tough-as-nails Oregon loggers and it has a somewhat famous gritty scene where Richard Jaeckel --- normally the heartless rat in other films --- finds his brother hopelessly trapped under a log-slide and he sticks by his brother's side both knowing the rising tide is coming.This movie was doomed by its run-along title and the equally bad second title, Never Give an Inch, when a two word noun-driven title would have assured <more> |
| Stamper Family Values (by bkoganbing) |
| A lot of people seem to be down on this film for reasons I really can't understand. The film seem to stretch everyone's creative levels especially one performer I'll single out later.Henry Fonda plays the head of the Stamper clan who own a lot of acreage in Oregon timber country and the family business is cutting logs. Enough to survive, but they do it on their own. But a strike by timber union loggers causes enmity between them and the Stampers who are seen as scabs.There are some similarities between Fonda's character and the family patriarch he played in Spencer's <more> |
| Wonderful ensemble performances (by TED-26) |
| Twenty-eight years later, it's remembered. Performances by Newman and Fonda made a good film out of a mediocre but nonconforming script. An Oregon timberland owner stands up to the big company trying to buy him out.Scene when Newman tries to save his brother's life by blowing air into his lungs when he is pinned underwater by a fallen tree was remembered by a true-life father who did save his daughter's life the same way when she was caught beneath their boat. After all, it is a memorable film. |