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Blue Valentine (2010) Movie Information |
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Overall Rank: |
1157 |
Avg. Rating: |
2.89/4 |
# of Ratings: |
83 |
Genres: |
Drama, Romance |
Rating: |
R |
Language: |
English |
DVD Release: |
05/10/2011 |
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Director: |
Derek Cianfrance |
Actors: |
Ryan Gosling
Michelle Williams
Mike Vogel
Ben Shenkman
John Doman
Maryann Plunkett |
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Plot Outline:
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A look into the life of a contemporary married couple that is seen through the lens of different time periods in their relationship. -- Chris Kavan
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Snoogans 03/03/2013 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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3.5/4 |
Conveys all the positive and negative aspects of a relationship, with believability. This story is portrayed in a realistic manner that makes you forget you're watching a film. The tremendous acting, from the two leads, brings us closer to feeling the emotions of their characters. The result is truly heartbreaking. |
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Chris Kavan 01/03/2013 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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3/4 |
Love isn't like a romantic comedy - it's much more like Blue Valentine - at turns heartbreaking and utterly undeniable - Gosling and Williams are both outstanding. It's not always easy to watch, but love isn't supposed to be easy - you have to work for it and it doesn't always work out. Watch it - you won't regret it. |
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Sgt. Jazoof 02/08/2011 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
Rating of
3/4 |
Perfect acting, heartbreaking story, great parallelism of te start and end of a relationship, as real as a movie can get, powerful realistic style and tone. |
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06/25/2011 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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Spoiler alert - it's sad |
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The movie that Revolutionary Road tried to be (you see, you have to show the couple HAPPY at some point to feel sorry for them!) is on display here, as we see two young individuals fall in love quickly, get married, only to have the marriage slowly dissolve. I thought Michelle Williams really stood out here, as her character's hopelessness, insecurity, and frustration were downright believable. Ryan Gosling is okay, but he eventually retreats into his standard indie-hipster-quirky character. The director resorts to some gimmicks to try and make things stand out (hand held cam! hipster music!) and the worst of all is the ad-libibng. I think the film would have been better served with a more concrete script as some scenes just get a little out of control, such as the Gosling-threatens-to-ju... |
Rating of
2.5/4 |
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04/27/2011 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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This film is just...Spectacular |
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You can believe this or not, what attracted me to this film was watching Ryan Gosling play the ukele for Michelle WIlliams, and seeing her dance. I know that that shouldn't be a reason to view a film, but watching the other sequences in the trailer made me realize that this was going to be a very strong film. I know it was going to be a film that would question my ideals on relationships and how we view them now-a-days, and I was right. This film did everything right, I mean the acting, the film shots, the music. It felt as if you weren't watching a film at all. It felt as if you were a voyeur in the lives of two people that lost faith in eachother. Williams did a wonderful job, and Gosling was amazing. The film is very hard to watch because we usually don't like to sit through a m... |
Rating of
4/4 |
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02/22/2011 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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Men Are Better at Romance Than Women |
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"Blue Valentine" is unlike other films of its genre (the modern relationship struggle genre, that is) in the sense that it didn't try to demonize any one partner over the other. There are moments more frustrating than others, where we feel the plight of both partners collectively - but the film grapples with emotional traumas and unfounded processes of decision-making. For most of the film, we feel like Michelle Williams' character, Cynthia, is being less than zealous in trying to make her relationship stand the test of time, but we understand that she made rash decisions that she wishes with all her soul she could take back. Ryan Gosling's performance as a devoted father and husband who feels the tension, which makes him feel less than adequate is nothing less than superb. A truly in... |
Rating of
3/4 |
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