willcarter-56155 A cliched sweeping drama starring Anthony Hopkins and Brad Pitt, Legends of the Fall is a middling affair dampened by its length and disposition to playing with your emotions. However the cinematography is amazing and the vistas of the American wilderness and seldom looked as good as they have here. Why on earth would the 3 brothers fight for Julie Ormond? Brad Pitt was an emerging heartthrob back then and this film probably solidified that status as he looks ravishing here. But the film is a sentimental chore to sit through.

farcryfolk What a story! I never cried in movies but I was a bawling fool in this one. Magnificent portrayal of a family of brothers and the woman that they all love in a rural Americana setting. Excellent acting all the way around. Emotional story with some incredibly moving scenes. Not only did it move me to tears but it had me yelling at the screen during some powerhouse moments. You really cared about everyone. You truly rooted for them. You wanted them all to succeed but a great story is about more then just its characters. A great story is about finding that unsettling part hidden deep within you, that part you put so deep you forgot it was there cause you were taught how not to let go. How to hold onto those feelings. This movie will wrench those away, pluck those clinging emotions that dare not collaborate together, this movie will bunch all of those emotions you ever had and it will release them to the winds like a thousand doves that have just been set to flight. I have never been so much of a Brad Pitt fan then I was in this movie. He represented Freedom, clear and simple. Enjoy. Make sure you bring a hankie.

Humphreywashere More than 20 years after this film was made, here is my contribution to these wonderful comments. This story is transformative. It is simple yet complex, tragic but uplifting, flawed yet perfect. It is the story of all of us, for we will all have tombstones one day, but whilst we live, we make right and wrong choices or life makes them for us. Life also creates moments that we treasure when those we love are healthy and happy and youthful. This movie permits us to share these moments with the Ludlows, frozen in time, looping over and over. I watch it and imagine different life choices: what if Susannah really grew to love dear gentle Alfred, for what greater gift in life is there than to be truly and deeply loved? What if she said to Tristan in that cell, wounded and crushed as he was, that she and Alfred will care for his children until he is free? What if Tristan didn't bootleg? The tombstones will still be there, the bear may still have raged within Tristan, but life would have been richer and kinder for all.

misscleo-75825 The beautiful Cinematography and score by James Horner can't save this mess! Legends reminds me of a full-length version of a Monty Python skit called ''Salad Days by Sam Peckinpah". It starts out benign enough in the Victorian era with smartly dressed people at a summer picnic. But then descends into a bloodbath! Where to start. Let's see. Cutting out hearts, suicide, impalement, scalping, and murders galore. It becomes ridiculously comical. Brad Pitt traveling the world to find himself and his own chartered ship. Anthony Hopkins embarrassing himself. Save your time and money! I can't imagine what the director was thinking.