The Quiet Man
admin | Jul 17, 2010 | 5 comments
Product Description
When an American prize-fighter kills a man in the ring, he returns to the Irish village where he was born to find peace and there he meets and falls in love with the sister of the village bully.
Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: NR
Release Date: 22-OCT-2002
Media Type: DVDAmazon.com
Blarney and bliss, mixed in equal proportions. John Wayne plays an American boxer who returns to the Emerald Isle, his native land. Wha… More >>
Filed Under: Romance
a musical or a comedy, a melodrama or a romance. too much singings, too much staged dialogues and acting. if compare to the great short novel, the movie turned out to be just an inappropriate mess, completely ruined the original story.
in the story, the hero played by john wayne was a REALLY quiet and private person, burdened with his dark past in america. in the story, the hero was a quiet person with iron will, a very likable person if you know what i mean. he should be portrayed in the movie as what we have seen in that great movie, ‘shane’, a loner, a very quiet person with a very attractive charisma and persona. but in this terrible noisy musical-like movie, the role played by john wayne simply talked too much, laugh too much. this a very bad interpretation of the title, ‘the QUIET man’. actually , john wayne was a very good choice to play this role, if the screenplay could grasp the true meaning of that short novel. we have seen john wayne played so many roles who were just the person described in the story, like what he did in the ‘red river’, ‘hondo’, and ‘the searcher’. the other bad thing was the bad cast and interpretation of the heroine, and even worse cast of the brother of the heroine. furthermore, the endless singings, jokings…again and again ruined the whole story. read the great short novel instead, then you might understand what i mean here.
I know it probably seems sacreligious, but I hate this movie. It’s mostly just a guy dragging a screaming lady around by the ankles, and come on, that’s not very entertaining. One minute, they’re both so happy and everything seems all worked out, and the next minute, redhead is screaming again and being pulled around by the ankles.
I might just think so because I’m a kid with a short attenton span, but this movie is also BORING.
Quite possibly the worst movie I have ever seen. John Wayne as Sean Thornton is not a likable character in this film, in fact he is detestable. And such stereotypes! Maureen O’Hara plays the fiery redheaded Mary Kate Dannaher who has the worst temper imaginable. Has anyone who liked this film actually been to Ireland? My guess is no, because the film bears no resemblance to actual Irish life, regardless of the era. My advice, pass it by…
John Ford, the mythical Irishman, finally had an opportunity to make a film in Ireland. Then he made what is probably the most ridiculous mis-representations of Ireland on film. For anyone who is Irish-American, and who actually knows anything about Ireland, Ford’s film is a painful travesty of all things Irish. And yet every St. Patrick’s Day, this awful movie is held up as some sort of representation…. There went the luck of the Irish. Thanks to that old-fogey hack John Ford. “Give Ireland back to the Irish,” or so goes the old rebel song….
The original movie (Black & White) was great but this is a prime example of why “colorization” should be made illegal. The DVD quality is poor at best and the colorization (both DVD & VHS) is so poor that your attention is distracted from the wonderful story line & fine acting. We the buying/viewing public should demand a quality black & white version !