See It or Skip It: Revolutionary Road
Do you know the saying, “That was a very long driveway to a very small house”? We think they were talking about the anticipation of traveling down Revolutionary Road only to be met with shockingly unexpected disappointment.
Eleven years after they sailed into film history and the record books, Titanic’s famously doomed lovers, Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, reunite in Revolutionary Road, based on Richard Yates landmark novel, and rather than running into icebergs (we wish) they’re left to weave and dodge Justin Haythe’s straight jacket of a script and Sam Mendes clinical direction.
The film is a portrait of Frank and April Wheeler, a stagnant 1950s suburban couple desperate to break free but quickly imploding. Crowded with screaming, emoting and angst, Revolutionary Road is an actor’s dream but the audience’s burden. Both Winslet and DiCaprio are thoroughly unlikeable, lacking any of the charm and grace that made them bankable movie stars. There is not joy, insight or catharsis is witnessing this emotional cannibalism, rather it’s a grating, tedious grind brought to you by two remarkable actors who deserved better.
Skip it, rent Titanic instead and keep the memory unsullied.
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revolutionary road kill
I hated this movie. She's a brooding bitch while he tries to be supportive. It's not his fault the play sucked. He has an affiar goes home and all of a sudden his bitchy wife is June Cleaver, ever so supportive and loving. They decide they want to move to Paris even though they have two kids (somewhere but never with them) daddy has a good job and they live on THE street everybody adores. No plans for Paris other than she gets a job, no mention of the kids or any of them speaking frence.....they are off to live their "dream". Wait a minute, she's PREGNANT! Life, plans, DREAMS are all now destroyed.
This movie was pro abortion propaganda plain and simple. Just like a d&c this SUCKED!
the movie fuckin sucked
the movie fuckin sucked
A movie doesn't have to be
A movie doesn't have to be happy to be good. Rev Road sucked. Who wants to sit through that much yelling.
I was trying to be open
I was trying to be open minded about the film by saying to myself that maybe... just MAYBE I missed the point. But then when everyone had the same "who farted in my face" look, I realized that it was the movie, not me. What a waste of a movie budget!
SUCKED
rev road, was SO bad. I was realling hoping for a hit with this one, but alas...I got this clunker. It dragged. I was like, "OKAY...we get it, you're unhappy...now bring back the crazy guy...he was cool."
Pshh.
I think its stupid that
This joke of a movie was made. Not all movies have happy endings but just because they are sad doesn't make them good. And for the record, Titanic made more money than any other film in history, so it couldn't have been that bad. What film snobs need to learn is that just because other people like a movie doesn't make it overrated, it just makes them idiots. Revolutionary road was a barely tolerable movie that was incredibly unpleasant to sit through. Its only redeeming scene is when the old man shuts his hearing aid off. I too wish i could have shut it off. But sadly this drivel will probably win 5 oscars or something so what do i really know.
I think it's hilarious that
I think it's hilarious that people still love that overrated film of Titanic. Revolutionary Road is a fantastic film and get over it. Not all movies are happy.
I think it's hilarious that
I think it's hilarious that people like you also say that Lord of The Rings sucked just because everyone else liked it- dumbass... by the way- everyone knows that a movie doesn't have to be happy to be good- American Beauty/ Into the Wild- This movie did not have a strong story at all- and was completely unintersting because of the lack of plot. After the movie, I kept wondering what on earth that was about, and which moral choice is better- but, the point of the movie was at the very end when the guy turned his hearing aid down- there was no point, there was no real story- you could just turn it down and it wouldn't make any difference at all in this world.
A movie doesn't have to be
A movie doesn't have to be happy to be good. Rev Road sucked. Who wants to sit through that much yelling. Crap.
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