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"Hugo" was ridiculous from front to back, a kid's film gone whacky. "Age" is based on a wonderful Wharton

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In Reply to: RE: it's more than bizarre that you thought Age of Innocence was great but Hugo was boring posted by Jazz Inmate on January 26, 2012 at 16:52:19

novel and it is interesting on many levels--- as good a view into a past generatiion's mores as you will see. It is as poignant a love story as "Jane Eyre" or "Wuthering Heights" and is captured by a director still at the height of his powers. Daniel Day-Lewis is terrific. Winona Ryder showed she once had great skills. Michelle Pfeiffer, also, is dazzlingly beautiful and shows her range, playing a role diametrically opposed to her star turn in, "Scarface," as a coke-headed moll.
I can't think of other costume dramas its equal, in the past decades, with the sole exceptions of "Barry Lyndon," and "Liasons Dangereuse."
"Age" is lustrous, brilliant filmmaking.

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kids are smarter than you think - Jazz Inmate 12:43:03 01/28/12 (0)
All the insight into "a past generation's mores" in Age of Innocence could be gleaned in the first five minutes. After that, it was a complete snoozefest. Wharton was no Dickens. She was more of a garden designer and interior decorator who wrote stories. Like I said, I'd rather watch water boil. A waste of Scorsese's talent and set design on the likes of Ryder and Pfeiffer, who never had great skills but ended up with great directors in a couple films.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. If Hugo doesn't move you, maybe you just lack a soul.
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