What a waste of my time!!!

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

A Masterpiece!

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

The "Brave New World (TV Movie 1980)" from the BBC was a billion times better, you can find references to that adaptation in IMDbJust watch the BBC version or read the book, there is nothing in this one to redeem itself, awful.The 3 hours long BBC version and the book can be found in the website Huxley dot net at the very bottom, there are the links to the book and the movie Sadly the copy came from a bad VHS, but watchable. There is no better copy as far as I know. A bit cartooned in style, worth it anyway, so the book.Bottom line, do yourself a favor, watch the BBC version or read the book

I respect the integrity of the written word as much as anyone. I first read Huxley's BRAVE NEW WORLD at 13 and I enjoy the classic novel. However, there is no question in my mind that this innovative, dark, and sexy retelling of the Huxley classic is only strengthened by the major changes in plot and characterization.Let's face it, in Huxley's version the main characters are much less interesting than the ideas he presents. Bernard Marx is a whiner. Lenina Crowne is a luscious, empty-headed plaything of her own desires. The Savage is a paranoid, humorless sex-hating pervert. None of these people are really strong enough or engaging enough to make an audience care deeply about their adventures in the "perfect" future.What makes this TV version so amazing is that all the ugliness of the society has been captured -- the cloning, the compulsive spending,the life of pure sensation. But the characters are much, much stronger. In this version Bernard and Lenina are not weak and stupid. They are tough, honest, and sexy. Their society has twisted them in many ways, but as they learn better they make changes and try to make a difference. One exchange between them sums up the tone perfectly: LENINA: I'm beginning to understand why we eliminated love. BERNARD: I don't think we ever did.The casting is absolutely perfect. Tough, brooding, virile Peter Gallagher is a bold, daring choice. He turns Bernard from a Woody Allen whiner to a true romantic hero in his own right. Rya Kihlstedt, who was so sexy and feline in THE BUCCANEERS, is exactly the right actress to capture all of Lenina's sex appeal -- while adding a great deal of sly intelligence. This is a bold new cast for a bold new vision of Huxley's classic.In this version, Bernard and Lenina have the makings of a true, adult relationship, and they don't back away from danger in order to help their friend, the Savage. His tragedy remains intact, and indeed the fact that Lenina is much stronger and really in love with Bernard only makes John Savage's isolation more tragic. Watch the scene where the Savage is trying to explain Shakespeare to a classroom of bored clones. In the background, Lenina is watching, sitting on a desk with her fabulous legs crossed. In the book she's just a bimbo, but here she's more like a queenly figure of strength. She knows John can't survive, but he's under her protection all the same. The clones can't hurt John while she's in the room.The one thing I do regret is that this version totally ignores the Savage's Native American roots. Aldous Huxley really did live among the Zunis for several months. However, it is obvious that "political correctness" forced the film makers to reimagine the Outlands as more of a trailer park full of white trash than an Indian Reservation. But even this change works, in that it shows how bland the world is without culture, religion, and Shakespeare.In conclusion, this movie, like Michael Mann's LAST OF THE MOHICANS, is a legitimate example of what happens when a film maker truly captures the spirit of a literary classic -- without being tied to the exact letter of the text.Would love to see a DVD release of this modern television classic!

If you want to watch a decent scifi movie, this is a pretty decent option. Good production values, acting, and an overall cheerful creepiness.If you want to watch a filmed version of Huxley's Brave New World, an extremely significant science fiction novel, this is not the film for you. It departs radically from the book, not so much in the way the society is represented generally (hedonism, sex, consumerism, caste...) but in the specific plot surrounding the main characters. Lenina and Bernard live happily ever after, with their baby, on the beach! The savages, no longer Native Americans, are now biker/trailer trash. And the savage's death is more accident than poignant social commentary. A delta-rebellion subplot is also introduced, interesting but not remotely faithful to the text.I bought this movie to use in a college-level lit class, and I found myself embarrassed to have shown it.

The Brave New World is a dystopia.The film didn't get into the whole story. The characters has depth.There are not as flat as in the novel.It's shown to bright and shiny.It's hard to adapt such a story, everyone sees a different of telling the story. In my mind, there are to many quiet important scenes, from book, left out. The whole film was boring. They didn't get the beginning and the end as well. It was awful to see how simple they tried to connect two chapters in the book in the film.The crappiest thing in the movie was that soma can kill some one. But the book told us that it is a drug with side effects, but I think that death is a quiet big side effect. In the end I would say, the film was badly done. It was to easy to see what would happen next.