Pros: Very Well-Played. Scenery breathtakingly Beautiful! Cons: None
I loved this movie. I'd like to tell you a little about it.Giant was filmed in 1956, a year after James Dean's death, in a tiny town of Marfa, Texas in Presidio County known as Big Bend Country. The story centers on the life of a wealthy Texas ...
Pros: Amazing performances by James Dean, Liz Taylor and Rock Hudson Cons: Aging effects not well done - Rock and Liz look like Halloween masks.
Edna Ferber's novel, Giant is the massive epic of a Texas oil family from about 1930 to the mid-1950s, and as a film, probably the biggest that George Stevens ever directed. The 1956 three-hour film saga also is noteworthy for being the last ...
I'm officially taking James Dean down from his pedastal now. There's a point where actor worship goes too far, and movie buffs everywhere have long passed it in Dean's case. Dean made three movies in his lifetime - a good movie (East of Eden) an ...
Pros: Cast. Some humorous moments, shots. Cons: Plot. Very familiar. Direction. Soundtrack. Editing.
What defines a classic? Usually when we sit down and watch them, we're reminded. Classics are able to feel gripping and new decades after their release. Stylistic novelties abound in nearly every shot of movies such as Bringing Up Baby, The ...
Pros: Arguably, the first successful Hollywood "film novel." Strong tolerance theme. Tiomkin score. Cons: Some scenes are overlong.
GONE WITH THE WIND (1939) perhaps was its forebear, but, although there have been many since, no other American film resembles GIANT before 1956. We have to go back to Abel Gance's NAPOLEON (1927) or the early Italian epics to find films like it, and ...
Pros: production values, good cast Cons: overlong, melodramatic, sometimes boring, characters are dubious
James Dean had to die to become a star. True, he was the lead in Elia Kazan's East of Eden, but his two most successful films were released after his death: Rebel Without a Cause and Giant. He completed Giant just a few days...
GIANT is a screen Saga. This again is a film that is more than the sum of its parts. Giant received nominations for 10 Academy Awards. Rock Hudson did the best acting of his entire career in Giant, but was upstaged by the young James Dean (who died...
Pros: Wonderful Cast & Cinematography Cons: Make up used to age the cast is horrid
As a fan of classic movies, I was excited to sit down and watch one that I had yet to see. A movie called "Giant" with a larger then life cast. Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean, what a trio to grace a screen together. ...
Pros: The story, setting, and the performances by Dean and Hudson Cons: <YAWN.> This is a LOONNNGGG film. Break out the caffeine.
I watched "Giant" because of James Dean. He's really the only person I recognized right away. I even failed to realize that Elizabeth Taylor was in the film(haha.) Anyways, this movie really is an epic, in story (and sadly, in length.)But it...
Pros: Great screen presence and acting by James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson Cons: Somewhat drawn-out; dabbles with many issues at once
I've always wanted to see Giant. I love older movies, and my parents talked about this one a lot. And who couldn't resist when James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor AND Rock Hudson were in the same picture? I saw this movie on TV.
The marriage between Liz...
Giant is just that, a movie of huge scale and grandeur in which cattleman Bick Benedict (Rock Hudson), his society-gilded wife Leslie (Elizabeth Taylo...More at Buy.com Marketplaces
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