The Worst Film Ever

So much average

Overrated

A Major Disappointment

I watch it like once a month. Very well acted and perfectly cast. Its also a great drama, comedy, romance - and has a clever sense of self awareness. I always find new things in it whenever I watch - very thoroughly done. I can quote this movie almost line for line, "but everything is perfect now, and everything will always be perfect, so why does it matter when things weren't perfect?" I haven't read the book, so I don't know how much of the dialogue is drawn from it - but I love the dialogue. So simple and naive. I like how there are no "good guys" in this story, its just a character study. John Savage wasn't anymore more moral at the end of the day then the people in the perfect society were. He was naive too in his own way. He was kind of the opposite of the Ford worshipers - they suppressed their emotions and he was carried away by his... I also like the idea of trying to build a perfect society - this story is as close to a "Utopian" scifi as I've ever seen. Even though it is ultimately dystopian, it is not as bleak as dystopian stories usually are. I feel like the major flaw in this dystopian society was hierarchy. This is the tragic flaw of the otherwise perfect little social experiment they had going - is that it was ultimately still based on hierarchy and dominance and submission within its roles - just more refined and sleek so it wasn't as obvious and noticeable as other dystopian fantasies. This mini series is painfully underrated. One of my favorite movies/mini-series ever! S

When it aired in 1980, I wondered what the heck happened to the promised BNW miniseries with a one-night broadcast that left so much out.Almost three decades later, due to the miracle of the Internet, I saw the entire version as broadcast by the BBC & then bought the DVD. I totally loved it. The cartoonish Gil Gerard Buck Rogers-ish special effects and the superficial characterization, much disdained, totally fit the "soulless streamlined Eden" of the book.Btw, back in 1980, I was fortunate enough to buy the PB tie-in, which I still own.Please put this on official DVD!

I have taught the novel several times, and I know it rather well. The novel is infinitely better in every way, but at least the 1980 version attempt is interesting to watch and to compare it to the text.The 1980 version is flawed as is the 1998 version, but at least the 1980 version sticks to most of the plot most of the time. You can still understand the message Huxley was getting at despite its lapses in terms of adding characters and changing some story details. It helps to have read the novel before seeing it, but to a viewer who has not read it, the viewer would get most of the ideas found in the text.One big problem I found: Linda was not bloated and old and horrid looking enough. When she returns to the "other place," she hardly looks any different than any other beta female. Also, if she hadn't been given blood transfusions and hormones as in the novel, she would have shown signs of aging. Here she looks like her son's girlfriend, not his mother. The actor playing John also appeared to me to be too old; the character is supposed to look younger. I did like the fact that this version was much more ethnically diverse. The 1980 version is basically "white bread."I have shown my students the 1998 version, as I only recently discovered the googlevideo.com site having the second version. I would like to get a copy to show some of this one too.

I am not going to pretend this is my favourite film of all time, but it was a good, clear version of the excellent book.The film looks dated and would be boring for some. But those who are interested in what might happen to the human race should check this out. This idea is the most likely to come true of all possible fates of humans.The acting is in places 2-dimensional, but this is usually only when portraying characters who are themselves 2-dimensional, such as Lenina, Linda and Thomas.The three more interesting and deeper characters of Bernard, John and Mustapha are portrayed well and all change dramatically and believably as the story unwinds.Not a funny, thrilling or exciting film but a clear film that makes you think.