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Rating:  - Great Movie!
This is a great movie! Read the book first if you can! I picked it up at Best Buy about 3 years ago for $10 and I'm glad I did with the way the prices are today. I can sell it for $60-$120 used. It's not only a great movie, but apparently an investment!
Rating: - Conscience, Price and Greed!!!
As this movie is one of the most influential DVD's in Fiction. It would seem that that greed has won out over the (Commonsense) and sentient nature towards our fellow man. The everyday person would benefit greatly from viewing "1984" but it seems as if by coincidence that a movie produced less more than four years ago would boast such an outrageous price. All sellers of this video would do their neighbor better justice by selling at more reasonable prices.
Before most of you are paid these prices. The reality of this story will either be true and/or you materials banned from sale.
Rating: - 1984 - are we there yet?
This movie was really well done. I am almost always a fan of books over movies, but this was very well done. The cinematography is dark, but that is the mood throughout the movie. The actors were splendidly placed in the roles. Richard Burton's performance was darkly impressive as was John Hurt. Even if you like the books better than the film version, you should buy this movie. It is well worth the price.
Rating:  - Another Dystopian Classic Removed from Mass Consumption
I thankfully was able to rent this minor classic from the library, but why is it out of print? Seems so inexplicably bizarre. I have been checking frequently for the past year or so, and still, you can't get it used for less than $85 and new will cost you $170! You would think that they would keep a popular classic like this in stock, if for no other reason than their bottomline! And what of this film's historical significance? It was the late great Richard Burton's final role onscreen.
Obviously, it is the message contained therein which these cowardly tyrants are afraid of.
Get this out to the public Amazon!!
Rating:  - An chance to do justice missed..
Just coming off reading the essentialy Orwell (1984 and Animal Farm), I decided I could finally check out the film without any guilt of not having read the book already.
I have to admit, I was disapointed in alot of ways, and not just in the "it can't match the book sense". First off, I was glad that the person I was watching with, and myself had both read the book in the not too distant past, or both of us would of probably been at a great loss on a number of subjects. Many details, and elements of the 1984 world, while shown, are not adaquately explained, and would just serve to confuse the viewer more. Elements such as the background history of the world, the thought police, newspeak, the Ministry's, the characters and their thoughts on each other, are all only touched on by minor scenes, if at all.
In all frankness, the movie probably needed to be twice the length, with alot of narration to explain the world. The movie often felt rushed, and the scenes at points butchered and the storyline brought to its most skeletal elements. How they felt they would be able to bring the true horror and suspense of 1984 without Winston's thoughts, I can't fathom.
Hopefully this will be made again, and it will get a proper full length that the classic novel deserves. With age of fashionable radicalism in a political era thats garnered more than a few comparisions to Orwell's "Big Brother", its amazing that the time hasn't been taken to give this classic its proper film due.
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