I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Great visuals, story delivers no surprises

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Having just read and finished the novel today, I had heard many negative reviews on the Demi Moore adaptation. I knew the ending had changed and that the movie takes an hour or so to lead up to the actual beginning of the novel. I went into watching this movie with as much as an open mind as I could as I understand not everything can be translated to the screen and if changes are to be made, if I feel they are justifiable in enhancing the story in some way or providing deeper meaning then it might be the more better for it.And at the start, I actually enjoyed the lead up to the point where the novel starts. You do get some background (though not much) into Hester and Arthur and there is some nice scenery to be had. However, the development of the love I felt was done way to fast but then I think it was more to show how lust took over so I could forgive that.Gary Oldman stands out and gives a pretty good and convincing performance. He is charismatic and pulled the role off well. Demi Moore however is very hit and miss. She does have some moments where her acting is decent however I just don't think she was the right choice for this movie. For one her accent sounds half baked and doesn't pull off a convincing english accent.My main criticism is that the main theme of the novel of guilt but also rising above shame feels somewhat overlooked. The scarlet letter Hester wore starts off as a badge of shame however she is able to overcome this in the novel and ends up gaining respect as her good deeds throughout her life end up shining over her adulteress act. The movie unsuccessfully (if it tried) to capture these themes and instead goes for some occasional nudity and some rather awkward shots of Gary Oldman and Demi Moore in slo mo scenes similar to what you would see in soft core porn.The Indian vs the English subplot also was unnecessary and didn't really add anything to the film rather than to serve the changed ending. I knew the ending was coming but the way it is done is so typical of a Hollywood like final action scene that it just didn't work. I found myself laughing at how silly it was and kind of seemed to come out of nowhere.Hopefully a better adaptation can be made in future that at least captures the main themes of the original story. Be it a lesson learnt that you should only change things when they are broken or suffer the consequences.

This movie is a big insult to the great book 'Scarlet Letter' of Nathaniel Hawthorne.It has nothing to do with this amazing piece of Literature.So, if you've read the book I highly recommend you not to see this film. Nevertheless,if you enjoy yourselves by seeing Soap Operas this movie will thrill you to the bone. The only good thing of this movie,I could say, is Gary Oldman,whose performance is truly respectable.The same thing can not be said for his co-star Demi Moore.No one maybe can deny the beauty of this woman.But her talent is poor in this particular movie,better not make any reference to her other 'exceptional' works.

This is one of the worst major-studio literary adaptations ever, and I've given it a 1 rating because it deserves to be in the IMDb bottom 100--though in terms of (unintentionally hilarious) entertainment value I'd give it a 6. Maybe even an 8. I'm no huge fan of Hawthorne--his novels are pretty dry, dull and moralistic, like much pre-20th-century American lit--but his whole story is outrageously skewed here to suit Demi Moore's ego. She was at the top of her stardom then. This, "G.I. Jane" and "Striptease" pretty much destroyed that status--and all because each of them was wrecked by the need to flatter her so much. She needs to be the toughest yet most sensitive, sexiest yet most spiritual, etc. etc. person on screen--which would be OK if she were playing an action heroine or female superhero, but was disastrous for these particular stories. "G.I. Jane" could have been a gritty look at women's military life, "Striptease" has considerable sequences--all without Demi--where it's a very funny retro screwball comedy. But her humorless image-sculpting ruined both. Then there's "Scarlet Letter." Whoa. Roland Joffe is not a good director (despite having gotten praise for the fairly good "Killing Fields" and overrated "The Mission"--since then it's been all downhill). But the problem here is clearly that Demi wants to reshape Hester Prynne from Puritan victim of Puritanism into a hot ass-kicking, erotically supercharged mama who connects as a kindred soul with local Native Americans and hosts a sort of women's consciousness-raising/sewing group. In colonial New England. Uh-huh. I kinda love this movie--it's so slick yet incredibly wrongheaded, encouraging possibly the worst performances ever by some very good actors (Gary Oldman and Robert Duvall for starters), that it's frequently hilarious. It's one of those rare crazy monuments to a star's ego--at the expense of any fidelity or credibility--that results in an instant camp classic.

When I saw adverts for this on sky i decided to investigate it further watch you tube and then record the film and I had expected so much but what i found was a bit of a disappointment. Im not saying the film was bad it was just not as good as I thought. Hester and Arthur meet about four times in the space of a few days and then about a week later they are declaring undying love for each other on a cliff and are prepared to risk their whole life for each other?? It happened to quickly. Once the film got going and it focused on Hesters struggle I found it intriguing but it still was too quick i felt for the main characters to have fallen in love. Gary Oldman was superb although Im not quite sure what accent he was trying to master and Demi Moore was surprisingly good in this role yet the whole thing lacked due to it being too quick. Overall I do not feel I wasted two hours of my life but I did record over the recording.