Gone with the Wind

[leedug]

I have still never seen this movie believe it or not. Was wondering just what is so good about it ? I hear people always gushing on and on about how great it is, but what makes it so great?

[simonfan05]

I have still never seen this movie believe it or not. Was wondering just what is so good about it ? I hear people always gushing on and on about how great it is, but what makes it so great?

It's very popular - the highest grossing movie ever, if you adjust 1939 dollars to 2008 rates - and technically well-done. Its Technicolor palette, decent cast, and great visuals (for '39), plus the popularity of Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer Prize winning novel help explain why it's so great.

As someone not from a Southern background, I find GWTW to be fluffy entertainment at its best, but at its worst, it romanticizes the "Old South" - with its plantations, somewhat supercilious "our way is best" attitude, and the "peculiar institution" of slavery - a bit too much. It's fine if you like its somewhat strange love story, but even though not every Southerner was a racist slave-owning plantation master or mistress, it's too nostalgic for the Confederacy.

[FilmBuff33172]

I have still never seen this movie believe it or not. Was wondering just what is so good about it ? I hear people always gushing on and on about how great it is, but what makes it so great?

This is not one of my favorite films, either. Its heroine is rather tiresome, with her "Fiddle-dee-dees" and love-hate relationship with Rhett Butler. Ugh.

[alexfardreamer@aol.com]

I have still never seen this movie believe it or not. Was wondering just what is so good about it ? I hear people always gushing on and on about how great it is, but what makes it so great?

If you don't examine it too closely for historical accuracy and just want to enjoy the spectacle, GWTW is fine for a flick from 1939. It has great color photography and a bunch of other good things.

[skatss]

I also refused to watch this film for most of my life. Any movie that is gushed about like this movie is, I figured couldn't be as great as they say.

I finally did see it one day when it was on late night on cable, and I really liked it. Like some others have said here, just don't look at it as an accurate picture of history. Just look at it for the music and the spectacle and for the great way that old movies were made.

Give it a chance, you might get a kick out of it.

I'm still being stubborn about another greatly hyped movie. I still haven't seen Titanic. Even though the video was given to me as a gift.

Maybe someday.

[ken7700]

I am one of those too that has never seen this film as well. I have heard so many great things about this film and one day I am going to catch it.