SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

conway3000 I liked this series better than the movie! I could never see Emma Thompson and Anthony Hopkins together or their romantic relationship. The superb acting of romantic attraction of Haley Atwell and Matthew Macfadyen gave the story another dimension. You could see why she wanted to marry him. The extra dimension of romantic love gave the story more meaning and understanding.

mathomas-28053 What cinematography! What costumes! What music! But above all, what a wonderful story, brought to life by masterful directing and acting. So nice to watch the story of two fascinating, strong, resourceful sisters, over a period of years. The men, of course, are useless, but I think that is the point.Marriage and pregnancy, two key and pivotal events in the life of the Schlegel family. Watch the subtle expressions of these two brilliant actresses; the beauty is in the fine detail of a raised eyebrow, the sweeping back of a stray lock of hair.You can't do better then to spend four hours of your life with this brilliant cast, this brilliant production.

Prismark10 Given Queen Elizabeth the First once remarked about the amount of coloured people in London, it is safe to assume we have had black and Asian people in England for centuries. Shakespeare even wrote a play about a black king. Back in the Victorian era there was a black policeman on the beat in Carlisle in 1837.There was a magisterial film version of Howards End in 1993. This adaptation of the EM Forster novel was done by Kenneth Lonergan, fresh from his best screenplay Oscar success for Manchester by the Sea.Set in Edwardian England we see a saga of three different families in the social and class divide. The wealthy Wilcoxes, the middle class and idealistic Schlegels and the lower class Basts.I found this four part version rather slow going and flabby. It is very difficult to feel any sympathy for the selfish Wilcoxes with a couple of big houses, putting their oar in and causing misery for others especially the Basts. We never really see them doing any work for a living.Even the Schlegels, a Jewish family from Germany who might be liberal idealists, they end up being comfortably off with Margaret marrying Henry Wilcox despite them having little romantic chemistry.It is a shame about Leonard Bast, he always ends up with the brown end of the stick as others tell him what is best for him and then wish to give him a thrashing to the inch of his life.I expected something better from Lonergan, something more waspish with a contemporary sting.

derek-eynon In a whole one hour episode virtually nothing happens, various vacuous letters are exchanged, and that is about it.The locations are superb, and a very good cast, but the whole thing is utterly, utterly vapid.Uninspired, colourless, uninteresting, feeble, flat, dead, dull, boring, tedious, tired, unexciting, uninspiring, unimaginative, lifeless, zest-less and spiritless