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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community May 4, 2012
Pros: superb acting, fantastic use of location, good story
Cons: story a little unfocused
Summary: Giant is one of those legendary Hollywood movies. Based on Edna Ferber’s novel of the same title, it easily could have ended in disaster. It ran way over budget, with much of the filming done in Marfa, Texas which was in ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 10, 2011
Pros: Great directing, acting, photography.
Cons: Unusual fare.
Summary: § Change of Season: Texas's most eligible bachelor, Jordan 'Bick' Benedict Jr. (Rock Hudson), arrives in Maryland by steam locomotive to acquire prize stallion Warwinds (Beauty—used in " ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 5, 2008
Pros: Cast. Some humorous moments, shots.
Cons: Plot. Very familiar. Direction. Soundtrack. Editing.
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 19, 2007
Pros: Big
Cons: The James Dean hype
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 14, 2007
Pros: Very Well-Played. Scenery breathtakingly Beautiful!
Cons: None
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 7, 2005
Pros: Amazing performances by James Dean, Liz Taylor and Rock Hudson
Cons: Aging effects not well done - Rock and Liz look like Halloween masks.
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 5, 2002
Pros: Great screen presence and acting by James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson
Cons: Somewhat drawn-out; dabbles with many issues at once
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 13, 2000
Pros: Wonderful Cast & Cinematography
Cons: Make up used to age the cast is horrid
Summary: 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. ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 24, 2000
Pros: The story, setting, and the performances by Dean and Hudson
Cons: <YAWN.> This is a LOONNNGGG film. Break out the caffeine.
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 1, 2000
Pros: Arguably, the first successful Hollywood "film novel." Strong tolerance theme. Tiomkin score.
Cons: Some scenes are overlong.
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 11, 2000
Pros: production values, good cast
Cons: overlong, melodramatic, sometimes boring, characters are dubious
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 1, 2000
Pros: Long epic saga
Cons: Long epic saga
Summary: 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 ... read more
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