I love this movie so much

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

The acting in this movie is really good.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

2/4Before I critique the movie (which will be painful to do) I would like to observe the pools of talent involved in the making of this movie. We have director Francis Ford Coppola (known for The Godfather and Apocalypse Now) working with C. Thomas Howell, Tom Cruise, Emilio Estevez, and Patrick Swayze. The classic S. E. Hinton novel adaption is, for lack of better words, not very good.This film seems very textbook, and that's the main reason I wasn't a fan. Coppola refuses to stray from the confines of the book. In other words, it's not original. He teamed up with Hinton to try and provide the audience the most accurate presentation of the book, and that's something I very much respect. However, staying with source material doesn't mean you should the very camera angles predictable.One thing the movie succeeds at addressing is its title-you feel like an outsider. Coppola has skill at developing characters at a steady pace, and then developing the characters relationships. This is a real shame, because it feels Coppola is giving his actors more depth then they can handle. The performances from Howell and Macchio (the two main characters) are unfortunately the most inept on the set. They can't convey their roles with the proper gusto.One thing I really enjoyed about The Outsiders is the atmosphere. He was able to portray the times well. Coppola put effort into creating the feel of a 50's Oklahoma town. It's a very subtle touch, but I throughly enjoyed it.When it comes down to it, The Outsiders is not a bad movie, but it's definitely no good either. It does a great job of re-telling the book in the exact same way, which for me was a pointless excersise.

I read this book in high school and watched the movie many years ago. I watched it again this past weekend for the fun of it. Overall a pretty good movie and it's really cool to see all of those young, soon to be Hollywood heavyweights in one of their very first, if not first movie role.The very worst part of this movie - the soundtrack. The music is absolutely horrendous. Francis Ford Coppola hired his father Carmine to compose the score and it is just awful. During dramatic moments in the movie, the music sounds like something you would hear in a kindergarten class - lighthearted, more like a carnival ride than a death scene.Other than the terrible music, still a very watchable movie.

"The Outsiders" is an American/French co-production from 1983 that resulted in this English language film that is going to have its 35th anniversary next year. The director here is a certain Francis Ford Coppola and a decade after taking us into the world of organized crime, he takes us now into the world of youth gangs that commit a fair share of their own crimes as well. If you see the names of Dillon, Macchio, Lowe, Cruise, Flea, Waits, Estevez and others in here, you will find a group of young actors that managed tremendous careers in the years or even decades to come. It is somewhat ironic that next to all these big names, C. Thomas Howell did not manage a huge breakthrough as he is probably playing the most central character in here. Coppola's very young daughter Sofia, an Oscar winner now, is in it too briefly. The biggest female character is played by the tremendously beautiful Diane Lane back then and even she does not have that much screen time. It's all about the boys. The film is certainly channeling stuff like West Side Story, Rebel without a Cause and some early Marlon Brando works a bit, so it is definitely not FFC's most original work. But like I wrote in the title, it is still easy to enjoy this movie if you give it the right approach. Don't go in it expecting Godfather quality. I personally think it could have been a bit shorter and more focused, but then again I watched the version that comes close to two hours and not the original 90-minute version. I suggest you go for that one instead perhaps. The film was successful enough for them to make a television show afterward and I see that one was pretty successful too, even if it only ran for one short season. Back to the movie, I see this was discussed pretty controversially. Some loved it, some think it's garbage. Decide for yourself. I think it was a good watch from that moment on when it really started to focus on three characters only. Those were the days when you could be called Ponyboy or wear a Mickey Mouse shirt and people still think you're badass. The ending with the faces (and even more the words) of the two dead characters may have been a bit on the pretentious side, but I can forgive them for it because Macchio really gives a good performance and portrays the most memorable character in here, a really good kid that makes a not necessarily wrong decision with horrible consequences, but stays a loyal friend and saves even some kids' lives later on. A perfect example of how his financial situation and as a consequence the people he hangs out with really literally destroy his life. Oh yeah and they really are outsiders as police only care for them when they have to shoot them. A good outcome here I would say and if you like Elvis, you are in for an even bigger treat. Go check it out.

The Outsiders is the movie adaptation of the book of the same name. The plot is Ponyboy and Johnny two "greasers" kill a "soc" named Bob after he almost drowned Ponyboy. He does this because earlier in the movie, he saw Ponyboy, Johnny and their friend Two-Bit with his girlfriend. They go to their friend Dally, he gives them money and a gun. They hide in this church, before Dally comes and picks them up. But the church catches on fire, and Ponyboy and Johnny go back to save some kids who got stuck in there. Johnny and Dally are both injured in this, and they are rushed back home, where the greasers and the socs are planning for a large scale gang fight that night. After they win the fight, they go back to find johnny is dying. After he dies, Dally robs a store, but is shot dead by police officers. Then it ends with Ponyboy writing the story as an essay.I read the book in Grade Eight, and while not good, you could still understand what was happening. The movie, fails at that. You need to read the book to understand what the relationship between Ponyboy and his brothers. In the movie it completely glossed over it. Anyway, some of the acting is bad, and feels forced, and there are so many parts of the movie that are unintentionally funny. Some examples: When Ponyboy and Johnny are standing outside of a church, and they are watching a sunrise, there is a orange filter being used. And you can tell because, everything in the shot is orange. Another time is at the end of the movie, when ponyboy is reading Johnny's note, it shows Johnny's face, then after he's done reading, it just zooms in on Johnny's eye, for no reason.There are a bunch of bad shots, like one in the church where it just pans over the church's floor. Also, the pacing of this movie is bad. Everything is rushed, Johnny's death is completely glossed over and they cut out a bunch of stuff. In the beginning of the movie, when Ponyboy is shoved over by his brother Darry, instead of a long dramatic pause, it just quickly cuts to Ponyboy running away. There is music playing over every scene almost. And in the gang war towards the end of the movie, you can't tell who is who. The movie does have some good stuff, like the plot is interesting, Dally's death is well shot, but there are just too many flaws for it to be called a good movie.Final Verdict:5.7/10 A poorly paced mess of a film, with a few redeeming qualities.