This is How Movies Should Be Made

Dreadfully Boring

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

I've watched the original many times and I've read the book at least ten times. This version strayed a bit from the original but was so very good. I would watch it over and over. I missed a certain character which i don't want to mention as a spoiler. All in all, A STRONG remake. I loved it. Kate Winslet was amazing, amazing and Evan Rachel Wood was spectacular as Veda. Watch it!!!!

I had high hopes for this mini series. After all it was an HBO production with a great cast. If only the writing was as such. The first 2 episodes were actually good enough (if not a little slow) to make me want to watch the rest. The last 3 episodes are a waste of time. The characters were never really developed. This young Veda was not the heinous spoiled brat that we had come to expect and understand in the Joan Crawford version. We never see Kate Winslet spoil young Veda or see how truly spoiled and ungrateful Veda was. Veda as a young adult went on some tirades and talked in circles & at times I was wondering what she was screaming about. She never really acted ashamed of her mother or her station in life as in the original version. Nor did she ever act like she hated her mother (no more than any other teenage girl), which was the driving force behind everything Mildred did. She did it for Veda's love and approval. This Veda has a career and fame. The ending just left me scratching my head.

I love Kate Winslet and I'll have a hard time writing enough words to say how bad this is. I'm just too old or have such different sensitivities than others. Maybe shows nowadays appeal to the digital , social media folks and i've been sober from Facebook for 2 years. This show was so boring. Kate Winslet is such a great actor but she had 'one face' the whole show which was 'look at me i'm a victim of a spoiled daughter i've created and love kissing her rear end and use me as a doormat'. I kept wanting to see anything, anything at all, that was different than the previous episode but there's nothing to this series. I don't want to knock IMDb because IMDb probably has no control over who leaves these reviews but i really believe people 'connected' with the makers of these shows and their relatives and friends write these reviews but real movie goers don't write these reviews. Nothing new ever happened in this show. Watch the 1st episode and watch the last episode and you've seen the whole series. Sad to say, i've soured on Kate Winslet and will probably avoid her films. All the people at the same look on their faces the whole series. Kate Winslet had this 'poor me' look on her face. Raw, ugly self pity and he daughter is a snot anyone would have straightened out by the time she was 5 years old. Oh, well, to each their own. But, this was bad.

I remember Todd Haynes when he was making terrible "one-reelers" and so I'm not surprised he hasn't gotten further than this mess. OK. I'm a guy and so the Lifetime Television for Women stuff doesn't really grab me anyway. And that's what this was. Six hours dragged out when the whole thing could have been over in two. I didn't care for one single character. But the odd thing is, and maybe this is where Mr. Haynes exemplifies the "new" thinking, the bad guys come out as good and the good guys as just plain stupid. That young Veda for example was allowed to behave the way she did was to me unbelievable and all because she had somehow been spoiled. The father was a complete milquetoast who supposedly ran off to be with some other woman (and who could blame him)but can't seem to make up his mind if he'd rather be at home with Mildred or not. Mildred, for all her pride, still sleeps with every man she meets on the first date and seems to fall into the whole restaurateur business way too easily. And the opera singing. Really? And in the end it seems as if Veda triumphed. Unbelievable. Don't bother to watch this one. Even if you are sick in bed on a rainy day.