Powerful

Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties. It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

Puting aside all Hemingway means as successful writer he had a bad behavior about the primitive bullfightes where in Spain,Portugal,mainly in Latin America this kind of outdated game stand for the lower ground of society,God's sake this games have been banned nowadays,the picture unfortunately is around this bloody game....the picture disgrace a great Errol Flynn who play itself as a drunk man,they could spare your name for this mess,in fact bad miscasting in this movie,the whole thing are saved by Tyrone and Ava with your endless beauty,the movie has some moments that deserves a propper respect,daring to touch in a very important matter as sexual impotence in that time,by this and Ava 7/10!!Resume:First watch: 2017 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7

. . . and a travelogue broke out. THE SUN ALSO RISES starts out pretty dull for about 48 minutes in Paris, and then becomes unendurably boring during its final 82 minutes in Spain. It's akin to watching grass dry, paint grow, or trying to read an entire book devoted to a geezer who catches a big fish, only to have it eaten by other big fish before he can get it to shore. Speaking of old farts, the opening narration of SUN claims that this tawdry tale takes place in 1922. How is it that all these aging bozos with one foot in the grave, such as Errol Flynn and Tyrone Power, could have been young Doughboys just four years earlier during WWI?! Did the Kaiser's minions spray them with AGING GAS? Apart from the washed-out "local color" aspect of this flick, its plot boils down to a sadistic nymphomaniac hopelessly hung up on her enabler, a masochistic but impotent veteran (of the U.S. Civil War, apparently). Maybe this hint of perversion was capable of drawing a few snickers back in the day, coming from the pen of Ernest Hemingway--the Caitlyn Jenner of his times. (Anyone who has followed the posthumous releases of "Papa's" weird Psycho-sexual musings and fantasies knows what I'm talking about.) Some may argue that a good movie COULD have been made from Jake Barnes' story. To that, I'd reply, "Isn't it pretty to think so?"

So "The Sun Also Rises" is one of my favorite books, and is a masterpiece by the great Hemingway, well was the movie version a classic well no. Was it good, well I and the friends I watched this movie with enjoyed it. It is good not great, it has its moments some of which are funny others of which show men being men, and a certain Lady Ashley being a slutty drunk way before Paris Hilton made it fashionable. I enjoyed it because it brought back memories from the book I had forgotten, but I would like to see a quality R rated remake of this film someday. It is a great story and I wish the film makers had done it justice, but it was the 1950's and I am sure it was pretty racy for that time but now it is tame to some degree. If you are a fan of Hemingway or of old films you may like this film, but it is no classic and not a bad movie just not a a truly good one either. if you like concise reviews of interesting films please read my other reviews at http://raouldukeatthemovies.blogspot.com/

The genius of Hemingway's novel is that the narrator naively and gradually reveals what a bunch of self centered, talentless, bigoted bunch of losers his central characters were. Their drinking was not so much angst as superannuated college kids on a binge. Now, some eighty years later, Robert Cohn comes across as the best of them. He cared, he loved, and he was the only successful one of them.How do you make a movie about such unattractive characters?. Would you ask top stars to play contemptible people? The characterizations of the leads were all compromises; Lady Brett becomes a misty romantic, not a rather dull, dumb lost woman (as in the book). Given only empty stereotypes to portray, the actor's performances ring hollow and purposeless. The characters played by Errol Flynn and Eddie Albert were not written with any characterizations at all, thus allowing the actors to do colorful shticks.Nevertheless, the atmosphere was good. The story moves. Minor characters are well done. The movie is Hemingway, but Hemingway lite. Mel Ferrer was good; he should have had a bigger role. His character, Robert Cohn was a contrast to all the rest of the characters. This works in the book, but hardly existed in the film