THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO (2002) - Caught this one last night on Encore Channel. I saw an older version that I liked when very young and this newer one lives up to the original. Really liked watching this one. Good story and characters, especially the Counts helper and the other smugglers. Anyone else like this film?
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It was kinda like Chinese food. I watched it, enjoyed it, then 2 months later forgot I had seen it. I had read the book a few months before the movie ever came out and I remember them being close with the translation. Overall, it was Ok, but not one I'm dying to see again.
True, it's not a film to watch over and over again, but very enjoyable first time around.
Yeah, The reason I saw I read the book- I was visiting a friend, who has no TV, but a huge bookshelf. I saw it, and figured "if it's good enough for the cubans" After finishing it I thought it was a Really good book. It was the kind of book I wished they had made us read in School, insted of Dickens. Anyways, so when the Movie came out, I was looking forward to it. I probably went to a matinee. FF to a year later when it's on HBO and I'm watching it, and I get the feeling "hey i've seen this before" Like I said before, Like Chinese food.
Strangely It' happend to me Before, This kinda reverse Deja Vu feeling. The first time was a Bad Brain's show I went to in '94, I didn't remember that till '98. bizzare huh?
"Ye-es!" Probably better then the Richard Chamberlain version.
Probably one of the few "chick flicks" a man can watch. Enough action to keep the man satisfied, and enough romance to keep a woman satisified.
Probably one of the greatest collection of villains seen in a film. The brains, the brawn, and the political cover, and that slick, sick, sadistic s.o.b. of a prison warden.
And a film that looks at everything from different viewpoints: the male, the female, the old, the young, the upper class, and the lower class.
All in all, probably one of the better films out there.
I thought it was pretty good, far better than the Richard Chambelain film!! It did leave quite a bit out, but probably had to due to time constraints.A&E showed a French mini-series starring Gerard Depardieu as the Count, that was pretty friggin' good!
It was entertaining. Very fun!