Reviews of The Outsiders 1983
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Having read and enjoyed the book, I can safely say that every single scene in this film is taken directly from the book. The only changes made are a couple of important character developing moments. Every character in the book was fleshed out and well-written. Now, I know that it's impossible to capture everything as it is in a book but the film glosses over any character development whatsoever. It's surface level material we're watching.
I found it annoying that…
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A classic blockbuster that tells gang war between two youth groups from different social ranks, one is a lower-class called The Greasers while the other is The Socs, a shortened for Socials, an upper-class youth group. This movie is interesting because it features many top notch future Hollywood stars namely Tom Cruise, Matt Dillon, Emilio Estevez, C. Thomas Howell, Diane Lane, Ralph Macchio and Patrick Swayze. Besides delivering social issues theme, The Outsiders mainly highlights the friendship and solidarity among…
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Ingmar really hit it on the nose with this one. All the characters seem like caricatures, and even all the great actors can't redeem what was an immensely underwhelming novel. To paraphrase someone else's thoughts, If I wanted to listen to teenagers whine for 90 minutes, I'd go out and find some actual teenagers, rather than watching this endless stream of cliche after cliche until you almost want to scream at the screen fr someone to do something realistic!
On a side note, did you know Ralph Macchio was 20 in this movie? Seriously, twenty! He looks twelve!
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Cool Movie!
-Man, I thought New York was the only place to end up in a murder rap, Jesus Christ! -
-He goes to the Barber for an oil change, not an haircut-
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Director Francis Ford Coppola launched his studio Zoetrope in the early 1980s but it soon found itself in deep trouble following the commercial failure of Coppola’s own One From the Heart. However the director was apparently determined to keep working and his interest turned to a new subject from an unexpected source. A librarian at the Lone Star Jr. High School in Fresno, California organized and sent a petition to Coppola urging him to consider making a film version of…
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My favorite all time movie.
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A really good young 1980s cast, I'm sure I read somewhere that this film & cast started the whole Brat Pack series.
I liked this enough but it didn't blow me away, mainly because it wasn't what I thought it was going to be. I thought it was about the two groups; Greasers & Socs duking it out until a final climactic rumble.
Whilst the rumble is there, even though it feels unnecessary once it arrives, what we get is a coming…
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I must confess I was not even aware of this movie (or the novel upon which it is based) and so I went in knowing nothing about the story. It quickly becomes abundantly clear that this is a very well cast film brimming with soon to be discovered talent, including the likes of Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe and Tom Cruise, so I was kinda expecting this to be an ensemble movie. It took me by surprise that the story instead…
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90 minutes of teenagers whining about their lives through cliche after cliche until we reach a point when all we want is the film to come to and end. Although the performances aren't awful (given the material) and it is a lot of fun to point out the actors, The Outsiders is an unrealistic portrayal of youth by someone who honestly does not understand.
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The Outsiders has really stayed gold, paraphrasing a famous line from the film. This was one of the films along with Rumble Fish that I had not seen of the great Francis Ford Coppola. The story takes and portrays the life of a young kid who is trapped between going down the wrong path and staying away from it. As the book the film was based on was written by a teenager, it really portrays all the young characters really well.