From my favorite movies..

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

This was a very bad remake of an amazing film. The acting was good but the script was hugely long with none of the wonderful suspense and effects of the original film. Essentially the entire book/movie was re-written as an entirely different story. It lacked everything that was amazing about the original film including the small nuances such as the seagulls, the prophesy and the way it came to pass or the way the coffin was carved. It held my interest for the first installment but I was disappointed with myself for watching the whole thing.

Stiff acting!! CGI whale looks more fake than the puppet model in the Huston version. Starbuck had a modern California accent, and he came across like he was bored and couldn't wait to say his lines, and get out of there. Richard Baseheart was a far far far better actor then that baby faced kid playing "Ishmael" Patrick Stewart did NOT play a convincing role as Ahab...it was just Stewart playing Stewart. Gregory Peck actually was Ahab in the earlier version. Even little Pip was better portrayed i the Huston version then this bomb. In fact the entire cast seemed to be bored and just wanted to get it over with. Many of the others did also.

The big mystery of Moby Dick has always been "What possessed Ahab?" In this treatment one has to ask "What possessed the writer and director?" When John Barrymore was making movies they new that as long as he was on the screen, no one cared what they called the darn thing, and no one cared if the "flicker" and the book was two different stories. But what possesses a modern writer to take one of the greatest classics in the English language and slice & dice it into this kind of pastiche? Knowing that 98& of Americans have NEVER read it, is not equal to "plausable deniability" UGH! Some excellent film work, otherwise (make the face QueQueg makes!)

What an awful film. Geez. I watched this in a film class and just plain hated it. As I watched this I couldn't help but think what Franc Roddam and Anton Diether thinking. I usually don't base a film on one specific thing and I didn't with this. The visual effects were terrible, the acting terrible and the story was nothing as the classic book or '56 adaption. Even Patrick Stewart couldn't bring the film out of the huge hole it dug . Everything for a bad film is used in this mini-series and it really shouldn't be seen by anyone. Nothing is explained and nothing really happens except a bunch of guys talking about a whale.Moby Dick. Starring: Patrick Stewart, Henry Thomas, Piripi Waretini, and Bruce Spence. 1 out of 5 Stars.