Second only to music is my love of the written word. Reading novels, poetry & plays from a young age and then through schooling that passion grew tenfold. My imagination became my playground. A playground with a killer soundtrack.

My English Lit teacher played a large part in inspiring me to write. He taught with this free spirit surfer style, a true Aussie with the ability to see past the bullshit. Watching Mr Keating in this movie brought those years back to me, how inspired I was then. Fuck... even Shakespeare gave me butterflies.

For all you cynics out there who assume this is a teacher crush cliche, allow me to correct you. It was Ibsen, Euripides and Chekhov that turned me on. Yeah those dead old guys. So I guess I'm saying - Dead Poet's Club, where do I sign up for some carpe diem?

‘Dead Poets Society’ offered the observer with a marvellous injection of reality, with awe-inspiring messages and quotes predominantly accorded by the masterfully portrayed John Keating (Robin Williams).Whose unorthodox and impudent teachings had created into monumental aggravation to all staff associated with the story. The characteristics of each person were very much idiosyncratic or unique to themselves, proving it was a well casted film; each scene had strong expressions and emotions which launched a mere bland story line into a great, charismatic film with an astonishing and surprising twist. A very well orchestrated film but, the first hour of the film never went anywhere and you felt there was something very significant missing; very slow beginning yet structurally brilliant.

A great story filled with fantastic performances from Robin Williams and the students. The story is captivating, a bit depressing, but also inspiring. This movie is poetry on film. A powerful film that everyone needs to see. Carpe diem.

Robin Williams. Now there's a quandary.

Is he the most underrated actor in Hollywood? Nay, the world?

Is he anyone's favourite actor? And if he was, who would admit it?

In Dead Poets Society, he comes to act. Not to cut some comic riffs. He. Gives a premium performance. In fact the whole film is hampered by the fact that he is just not given enough screen time. But it is testament to the Oscar winning story, and beautiful direction of Peter Weir, that you don't really mind this criminal error. It does however suffer from being a tad heavy handed at times. It tries to tug on your heart strings way too many times, and usually in contrived ways. Needless to say, it fails.

Dead Poets Society is still quality.

And a film that should have made Robin Williams somebody's favourite actor.

A lot more dramatic and sad than I was expecting. I guess I'm use to associating Williams with comedic roles, hence I always just assumed this was more of a comedy than a coming of age drama.

Williams is great to watch, with his character able to inspire even the most cold soul. It is one of the best performances I've seen from him, aside from One Hour Photo I've never really liked him but this is starting to change my opinion.

It is brilliant, one of the better Weir films I've seen. It really packs an emotional punch in the final act.

bit sad :(

Very entertaining, all the kids are very charming and while they are faced with problems that I can't relate to personally I did feel for them and cared about what happened to them, in part wishing I was strong enough to face issues like that in a better way.

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Second only to music is my love of the written word. Reading novels, poetry & plays from a young age and then through schooling that passion grew tenfold. My imagination became my playground. A playground with a killer soundtrack.

My English Lit teacher played a large part in inspiring me to write. He taught with this free spirit surfer style, a true Aussie with the ability to see past the bullshit. Watching Mr Keating in this movie brought those years back to me, how inspired I was then. Fuck... even Shakespeare gave me butterflies.

For all you cynics out there who assume this is a teacher crush cliche, allow me to correct you. It was Ibsen, Euripides and Chekhov that turned me on. Yeah those dead old guys. So I guess I'm saying - Dead Poet's Club, where do I sign up for some carpe diem?

Absolutely heart warming film would highly recommend this to anyone who hasn't seen it.

This movie is incredible. I think it is the first film to evoke feelings in me of sadness, happiness and triumph all at one given time. The story is beautiful and realistic. Highly recommended!

This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.