roverrocks

I did not see the 2008 version/remake so all I can say is that overall the "rottentomatoes.com" movie review site says only 13% of all professional movie reviewers gave the movie a thumbs up. Here is the link to the many reviews on that site: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=10&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CFwQFjAJ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rottentomatoes.com%2Fm%2F10009516-women%2F&ei=ADQaU-7qHcidyQH8_IGgBA&usg=AFQjCNGCdfBbcU9rMQt-7ozDbW7cChOLdA&bvm=bv.62578216,d.aWc

Truly a superb, well-acted movie with an excellent very poignant meaningful script. One of my favorites.

Very very sad if small town cinemas in thousands of locales might be forced to shutter their doors. Very sad indeed. Progress is certainly not always progress.

Who or what private enterprise, VIP or governmental body is requiring that ALL cinemas MUST be switched over? Just wondering?

There is little sense in grieving for anyone great or small as none of us get out of here alive. Just be thankful that that person or persons lived and was one of the great ones of Hollywood/World cinema and brought such vitality and pleasure to all of us who viewed their art, acting, direction, cinematography, etc. Celebrate their lives/accomplishments and just don't grieve for death is waiting for all of us.

Danger UXB was a terrific series. Loved that one. A lotta years ago. Really like Foyle's War as well. Liked the novels by Cornwell about Richard Sharpe in the Napoleonic Wars that were on PBS. One great series of novels by Cornwell.

Yes, the print quality was extremely bad to what I have seen in the past with this fine movie. Disappointing to see TCM use such a bad print.

I too am a rabid Anglophile of British/BBC/Masterpiece/Mystery productions and have been for decades. "All Creatures Great and Small": I haven't thought of that magnificent miniseries in years, so very good. Love "Call the Midwife" and looking forward to a new season of episodes. Now that season 4 of "Downton Abbey" is over I long for season 5 to start. It's one heck of a soap opera getting soapier and soapier but I am addicted. "Rich Man, Poor Man" and "The Winds of War" were epic American miniseries and even better books. Not sure why I am such an Anglophile as I am of German heritage but I am. Guess I'm really just a Europeanphile in general. Do love British and European crime/whodunit novels as well plus WW1 era history/novels. Ann Perry novels are one of my favorites. Amazing the effects on the world that one rather small island of Britain and specifically England has had on such a large world over the last thousand years in all aspects of life and culture. Sometimes good and sometimes horrific effects depending on the races and peoples involved. Edited by: roverrocks on Mar 3, 2014 10:26 PM

I am planning on watching this really good movie today. One of those great movies eminently worth watching again and again. I remember watching the TV series in the 50's as a little guy called THE 77TH BENGAL LANCERS and liking it though it's all pretty hazy as I was not very old.

Could be one heck of an epic movie. An amazing bit of lost/unknown history I just read about. http://www.damninteresting.com/andree-and-the-aeronauts-voyage-to-the-top-of-the-world/#continue

Just read on Wikipedia of Bobby Driscoll's tragic use of drugs and sad and unknown-for-months demise at the age of 31. Very sad.

Horrifying! Horrifying sfpcc2! In these days of political correctness it must be Ben HER or Ben Trans or Ben Not Sure or Ben ? or Ben SexChangeComing! Can't be the very sexist Ben Him!! Get with the times!!

I think the Coen Brothers remake of TRUE GRIT was extraordinarily better than the John Wayne version decades ago but then I am not much of a Wayne fan. I think the Coen Brothers could remake anything and I would want to see it no matter what the original was. I have that much respect for this modern film-making duo. I did not see the Close/Stewart remake of THE LION IN WINTER and now really would like to see it.

KKDempsey: I can't understand not liking the magnificent (to me) Bert Lancaster but I sure agree with "Peter Fonda, any actor making the comedies now days aimed at 20 somethings": they are all definitely underwater at a sewage lagoon for me as well. Bert though, love that tough guy!! I wouldn't mind being reborn looking like him with his talent and personality.

I definitely agree with you finance that Ghost is superior to Jennie. Cast and storyline are terrific.

Joanne Woodward is such a stately woman. Wow!!

I take my history from hundreds of different histories I have read and continue to read from all points of view as new ones come out "hotshot" but movies that make one think and ponder and investigate much much deeper are invaluable even if they seemingly don't do the same with you. I'm truly sorry that you don't understand these powerful movies and others like them and have no wish to ponder and investigate deeply into their variety of sensitive topics that are not merely ancient bygone history but extremely relevant topics that continue to resonate today and will do so in the future.

When intelligent movies make one think and ponder, truly think and ponder in the light of actual numbing historical events they have done a good job. Both JUDGEMENT AT NUREMBERG and SHIP OF FOOLS do this at least for me and that makes them brilliant no matter that all is not perfect within the movie. Mr. Kramer made some very interesting and highly intelligent films during his long distinguished career. I have tried to study history especially European history from different viewpoints and cultural perspectives. These two brilliant movies are not just entertainment and if one looks at them from an entertainment viewpoint only or mostly then is missing the points of both entirely. They are imperfect star vehicles and ensemble films but the issues of culture, race, and fanaticism from all sides of the coins involved are their true value. If one forgets and does not remember history from all the different viewpoints then one is as they say: "Doomed to repeat it". I for one will continue to rewatch these fine intelligent and dare I say "brilliant" films as I continue to study history and reformulate/re-evalute/modify my views of what happened and why.

One either really liked the film like me or did not skimpole. To me it was a brilliant film with a lot to say and the bleak innuendos of the impending horrific future only a few years hence of 1933 were there. Here's some other revues from the Rotten Tomatoes site. http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCYQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rottentomatoes.com%2Fm%2Fship_of_fools%2F&ei=GHYOU7qjHYLQyAGY04EI&usg=AFQjCNFTD7ERoLQbHL_Mf0sv7jkFvrZK0A&bvm=bv.61965928,d.aWc&cad=rja

I know finance. Could not resist my blithering impulse. I've been out of touch and backwards my whole life according to my dear dear dear wife. May she RIP tonight as she sleeps and not dream of murdering me.

I am certainly incredibly painfully ragingly mouthwateringly jealous of both of you for having met Helen Mirren and Stephanie Powers between the two of you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...................Good for both of you. .....................................I am still jealous though but I'll get over it in a decade or two.

Is it June yet?? Can't wait to view THE COSSACKS plus I am just plain tired of winter and need some blossoms and greenness.

I liked Robert Stack's TV series "The Untouchables" a whole heck of a lot better then I did Costner's movie "The Untouchables". The TV series also had the great narration of Walter Winchell which only added even more to that excellent TV series.

I always think of Tom Courtney in his roles in Dr. Zhivago. That remains my most vivid image of him from courageous student agitator with the shear guts to walk into the aristocratic restaurant and walk out with Laura, striving WW1 soldier, and finally Red Army General Strelnikov. He stole the movie in many ways for me as the embodiment of the trampled, terrorized, desperately poor Russian masses of Imperial Tsarist centuries.

I did not watch it today but was highly impressed with the movie when I saw it in the past. You are so right that young people today would not understand how it was just a few decades ago with phones. Does not need a remake anyway in the slightest.