Sadly Over-hyped

Am I Missing Something?

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

If you have time to kill and watch great actors deliver bad acting, watch it. With such names as Kevin Spacey, Julianne Moore, Judi Dench, I was expecting a great drama. Instead I waste precious time when I could have been watching reruns of 3rd Rock From the Sun and LMAO! I should sue to get this time back. And I expected much more from AP. The dialogue from Moore, Dench and others at times was impossible to discern what was being said. Maybe I should watch it again with the closed-captioning turned on. I'm just so disappointed in KS from his past performances in 'American Beauty', '21', 'Midnight In the Garden of Good and Evil', 'K-Pax'.

Every actor and/or actress has at least one movie he/she wishes they could obliterate from their careers. I'm sure The Shipping News is Julianne Moore's.Considerng the budget they had for this movie, they could have afforded a coach that knew the difference between a Newfoundland accent and an Irish accent.The won't allow me to post my comment unless it contains 10 lines of text. I'm too polite to give my opinion on what other negative impressions this insult to Newfoundland Culture made on me. I'll just say that the chances of me wasting my time viewing such drivel again are about the same as a snowball's chance in hell.

A man. And his search for real roots. A aunt as incarnation of old stories - shadows of roots. And his daughter like guide for a a world very strange. Terra Nova. A new land. Maybe a perfect house or place for hove a sense. And the memory of a woman for who the pieces of gray childhood is gone. A death. And a new beginning. A story by Annie Proulx. Signs of novels colors. And a cast who makes the events slices of a bread. History of truth of life, movie is , like novel, form for carpe diem. With errors, fake ways, hopes and science to discover the others as parts of himself. A travel to the real person for build freedom. Parable without great ambitions. Basic steps and a delicate love story as key for the hidden room. And Kevin Spacey. As frame of his roles. Judi Dench. As seed of story. Cate Blanchette. Shadow of a passing evil.

I have to agree with the reviewers who say that at some point we realize that we are never going to bond with anyone in this movie. While what they do is interesting in an isolated way, there isn't much for us to care about. I am a great admirer of Kevin Spacey and I'm sure he was directed to play this guy, but the man is so subdued, so cowardly, that the littlest moments of self-realization seem huge. It's like watching a car accident after a while. The sets in Newfoundland are wonderful, though they are gray and unfriendly. The waters are the enemy but the waters dominate. Everything that you could throw at a guy gets thrown at this guy and he manages to crawl from under it. The cast is about as stellar as one can get. I have not read the book so I can't compare the two media. It certainly was celebrated.