2008 Directed by Sam Mendes
A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.
Scott Rudin Productions BBC Films Neal Street Productions Evamere Entertainment DreamWorks Pictures Goldcrest
Les Noces rebelles, A szabadság útjai, جاده انقلابی, レボリューショナリー・ロード 燃え尽きるまで, 레볼루셔너리 로드, Дорога перемен, Дорога змін
Catching up with the Sam Mendes films I haven't seen. Really glad I am because so far, Jarhead and this film have been much more enthralling for me than American Beauty and Road to Perdition. Loved the script, performances, production design, and cinematography. Looking forward to Away We Go.
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Watched the Blu-ray - rented from Netflix
it's late but i don't feel like going to sleep yet, so here's some rambling about a movie i haven't seen in about 8 years.
everybody was talking about ~Leo~ because of the golden globes, and it made me think of this movie, which i actually think about a lot. i saw it once, in the theater 8ish years ago with some bozo girlfriends who i didn't feel like arguing with, and i remember hating it almost instantly. something about it got on my nerves, and i became more and more furious about this whole "sad annoying white people" narrative that i was sitting there rolling my eyes and seething. i'm fine with unlikeable characters but not if the whole…
If Jack and Rose shared the plank of wood and both survived the sinking of the Titanic...
This is what would've happened.
Rose: So now I'm crazy because I don't love you, right? Is that the point?
Jack: No! Wrong! You're not crazy, and you do love me. That's the point, Rose.
Rose: But I don't. I hate you. You were just some boy who drew a naked portrait of me once, and now I loathe the sight of you. In fact, if you come any closer, if you touch me or anything, I think I'll scream.
Jack: Oh, come on, stop this Rose.
[He touches her for an instant and she screams at the top of her lungs before…
I've got a confession to make...I hated Titanic.
Aside from the pure spectacle of it all (which even that didn't impress me much) I didn't see what the big deal was. I wasn't even all that wowed by Leo and Kate in it. I mean, they were good, but not as good as people claimed they were. When this was being hyped up as the big reunion of the Titanic stars, I wasn't exactly "thrilled" or anything. So, the first time I saw it, I went in with low, low, LOW expectations. Not only was I floored completely by their performances and the film itself, but this has grown to become a favorite of mine.
Sam Mendes once again does…
Revolutionary Road is extremely ambitious in its endeavor to tackle multiple subjects in under 2 hours: marriage, suburban ennui, meaning of life, unfulfilled dreams and abortion. The end result is an emotional rollercoaster featuring some of the most consistently stellar performances I've seen from an ensemble ever.
Adapted from its source novel depicting the falling out of a suburban couple in the 1950s, Revolutionary Road features some of the most engrossingly blistering and naturalistic depictions of a relationship you will ever see in movies, which may probably have been where Jack and Rose ended up if Titanic hadn't sinked. It chronicles the slow yet inevitable deterioration of a seemingly perfect marriage with microscopical insight and razor-sharp precision. It begs the…
‘It’s a disease’
Revolutionary Road is Sam Mendes’ underrated hard hitting heart aching drama following a dysfunctional couple who appear to be perfect. Leonardo DiCaprio's gut wrenching performance is one of a kind for him, it’s something you wouldn’t picture him pulling off in his later years. Kate Winslet mirrors his performance with an equally perfect performance.
Sam Mendes’ directing is always amazing and every film he’s done has some amazing cinematography. This is a great example with the perfection of each shot of the film. The writing of this may not be the best for me but the performances and direction of this make it work amazingly. It’s a behind the scenes look at the ever so perfect couple and shows why you shouldn’t judge a book by the cover. It has a meaning hidden beneath the performances that springs forward into a special film.
Sam Mendes’ most unique film with the most meaning.
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As much as I appreciate Sam Mendes' approach to structure, and his commitment to the valleys and plateaus of marriage, especially in regards to the augments that feel like pillars to confront, one after another in a never-ending cycle - this movie doesn't really work. It might be due to the source, but it's probably because Mendes trusts in these actors to lift up every other element of the filmmaking. Some may call it stripped-down, or intimate, but it's honestly lazy when there's no other way to approach the film because of its adherence to the verbal sparring of the actors. With performers as physical as Winslet and DiCaprio, the movie is a wasted opportunity.
No one forgets the truth. They just get better at lying.
What would have happened if Rose’d have left a space to Jack and so he doesn't have died.
here I am twelve years later with my extremely fresh take that Kate Winslet is many, MANY times better in this than she is in The Reader. Excels both in capital-A Acting in the film's brashier moments but also in the smaller nuances of her character and particularly her final scene.
this film demonstrates the only redeemable thing to come out of the 50s was in fact the fashion
I was bloody loving this film for the first third or so. But I think it trailed off. Everyone gives amazing performances though! I think Shannon has to take the cake for this one though. I don’t even think he’s crazy, I think he’s just woke.
Having fallen in love with Sam Mendes’ film debut ‘American Beauty’ not so long ago, I was rather excited to sit down and watch ‘Revolutionary Road’ to see if Mendes could keep up a winning routine.
If this film were a colour, it would be beige. I was fairly interested in what was going on and I sort of enjoyed the depiction of the themes. I’ve never really enjoyed Winslet nor DiCaprio but both were very good in this, as was the wonderful Kathy Bates.
The last half hour of the film is tough, and to be fair to Mendes is beautifully tackled. It was so hard-hitting, I had to go away and watch some Coronation Street just to cleanse my pallette.
Karı koca ilişkilerini gerçekçi şekilde anlatan bir film olmuş. Oyunculuklar güzel.
I signed up for more of that Dicaprio/Winslet chemistry and all I got was some real ass sadness
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