Hottoceame The Age of Commercialism

ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

BelSports 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.

noonoonomore When I read the book I was mesmerized by the beautiful imagery, the combination of magic realism, love, sex and food; and I didn't expect much from this movies, but what I just saw was horrible beyond imagination.With all those materials given in the book the cinematography could've been amazing instead we're forced to watch some amateurish uninteresting pointless shots of everything. Half of the very important parts of the book was omitted, and I don't even wanna bother with the acting! That doctor was supposed to look kind, but with all that unnecessary smiles he looked like a pervert who tries to smile his way out of looking like one.You can read the book and have a blast instead of having a headache by watching this.

gavin6942 This movie is about how life used to be in Mexico. It is a love story between Pedro and Tita, and why they couldn't get married because Tita's mother wanted her oldest daughter to get married first, and have Tita to stay and take care of her. It shows how marriage was imposed on those times, and how a love between two people can change everything.This is supposed to be a great film, but for me it just did not resonate. I appreciate the movie to a point, and it is good to see a film from Mexico (the country needs a bigger industry, perhaps). Most of all, I love that apparently Robert Rodriguez hung around the set before becoming an A-list director for Hollywood.But overall, this is not one that really had any impact on me whatsoever, so I can only give it a middling grade.

normanc-2 The movie is well filmed with great backdrops. For anyone who has lived in Mexico, it is historically accurate in its portrayal of life in northern Mexico during Revolutionary times. It comes close to following the book, which has a recipe for all of the movie meals, and more - one for each month. My wife cooked the quail in rose petals and..... Parts of the film are erotic without being graphic. All of the actors are wonderfully cast in their roles. If you want the DVD, the uncut 113 minute version has interesting scenes omitted in the American version 105 minute one.

jaredmgoldberg After having read the book from which this is adapted, this movie deserves not the praise it received. First and foremost, the movie completely misconstrues the message of the book. The book stresses the importance of FOOD, and how the food is Tita's method of both coping with her realities and her method of communicating the feelings that are being suppressed by Mama Elena. In the movie, the beauty of the food is drowned by a disgusting, almost stereotypical soap-opera-like drama. The acting is cheesy, at best, and the feelings between Tita and Pedro are poorly conveyed as love. Rather, they are portrayed by a simple, unforgiving lust. Also, the last scene was TERRIBLE. The last scene is supposed to contain a grand crescendo of feelings that ultimately lead to Pedro's, and the Tita's, deaths. However, it simply appears that Pedro has an orgasm and then faints. There is absolutely no way, without having prior knowledge of the story, to correlate between this scene and the matches theory. Also, the way in which Tita days poorly illustrates the match theory. It seems like she just eats the matches and then dies. By this, however, the intense emotion required to kindle the inner matches is just not there. By its lonesome, this movie receives a 3 (soap opera quality crap).