Best director? Best cinematography? What film were they watching? What film are they all reviewing?
Wife beater; not terribly believable acting; wooden Wayne; cheap jokes; the IRA; some crap about a dowry. The film is a collection of stringed together clichés and shots of Irish landscapes, with many green screens (or however they did it back then). The emperor's new clothes.
Decidedly average and at times below average lighthearted Saturday afternoon whatever's on the box type film. With some wife beating thrown in for good measure. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but masterpiece this film is not. It's not that it hasn't aged well because it was from 1952. There are plenty of films from back then that are as good today as they were back then. High Noon immediately comes to mind. Oliver Twist, 1948. And so on. That's filmmaking.
This film is IMO just as I said. Some lighthearted random Saturday watch. And not on a yearly basis. Honestly, if you come fresh to this movie without ever having seen it before I'm confident you'll be left bewildered wondering if all the 10-star reviews were written by people as high as a kite.
Some funny moments in the film for sure, but overall an average picture with reviews written through rose tinted glasses. And some truly questionable head-scratching sequences where O'Hara's character is treated like trash which for whatever reason the viewer is asked to find amusing.
Wife beater; not terribly believable acting; wooden Wayne; cheap jokes; the IRA; some crap about a dowry. The film is a collection of stringed together clichés and shots of Irish landscapes, with many green screens (or however they did it back then). The emperor's new clothes.
Decidedly average and at times below average lighthearted Saturday afternoon whatever's on the box type film. With some wife beating thrown in for good measure. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but masterpiece this film is not. It's not that it hasn't aged well because it was from 1952. There are plenty of films from back then that are as good today as they were back then. High Noon immediately comes to mind. Oliver Twist, 1948. And so on. That's filmmaking.
This film is IMO just as I said. Some lighthearted random Saturday watch. And not on a yearly basis. Honestly, if you come fresh to this movie without ever having seen it before I'm confident you'll be left bewildered wondering if all the 10-star reviews were written by people as high as a kite.
Some funny moments in the film for sure, but overall an average picture with reviews written through rose tinted glasses. And some truly questionable head-scratching sequences where O'Hara's character is treated like trash which for whatever reason the viewer is asked to find amusing.