I'll save you some time: I didn't like this movie.
We didn't even finish it. To be fair, M told me how the book ends, but I wasn't surprised and wouldn't have cared anyway. Why do movies go out of their way to be as depressing as possible? This was one of those flicks that gives you a gut-wrenching feeling of despair and longing the whole way through, and threatens the main character with dashed hopes and foiled dreams to impose an inflated sense of importance on the plotline. I hate that. It's a cheap trick and it makes me resent the film overall.
Having said that:
The cinematography was striking, the actors more than did their part, the pacing made perfect sense for the material and the script, pulled largely from the (apparently) classic novel was compelling and well placed.
And yet, bad movie.
Every individual part was done tastefully and even well, but there was just this overall slimy feel to the thing that made me bored. It was just... Cruel. Cruel for the sake of cruel. Let's watch this poor bastard throw everything he has at someone who doesn't deserve it and loose, over and over. He spends the whole movie obsessing over this girl, and she's a mean-spirited person who doesn't deserve the viewer's sympathy. The movie seems to assume that Pretty should be enough for us, because it's enough for Finn. I hate Finn for loving her, and I hate her for using him, and... it's just another one of those movies where none of the characters come across as likable and in the end nothing that happens matters to me.
This movie is like if at the end of Beauty and the Beast, Gaston killed the beast, and Belle said, "Well, I guess that's that." and just ended, with everything in tatters. This woman was trained to be a vicious man-eater. Whether it's her fault that she was cruel or not, I mean... Do we feel bad for Jason Vorhees because he was the victim of neglectful camp councilors? No! You're judged by your actions, and watching some dude gain the world just to loose it it not my idea of cinema. Fuck you, Great Expectations. Movie dick!
Don't watch Great Expectations.
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