applescruffy

I read someone's comment saying that the movie lacked emotion. Now, I don't agree at all, I love the movie and wouldn't dare to criticise it like that. But after giving it some good thought, I can see what he or she meant with that comment. And it can be easily helped! Watch the other two as well! If you watch the three movies, preferably with no more than a day between them, you WILL feel emotion. It's a long story about people and if you allow yourself to feel for these people, when you get to know them, than you can't be left untouched. At least I personally can't imagine anyone not being touched. The story's so good, the acting is amazing, the movie is incredibly well made and the music is beautiful. So please, people, if you hated the first one, give it another try! Watch it again and watch the others as well. You'll thank me later :) ...

I didn't like this movie. First of all, I don't know what everyone likes about Elizabeth Mitchell. She annoyed me and she looks like an American TV film actress, not like Linda McCartney. Linda had a certain class about her that Mitchell doesn't have, she's just an over-acting actress while Linda was a personality. Second of all, I really disliked the way John and Yoko are being portrayed in this movie. They were people, a couple, just like Paul and Linda, not devils. And than there's this... Why is it called the Linda McCartney Story, when according to the movie, after she meets Paul, it's not her story at all anymore? Like people have said before, everything Linda did for animal rights and her veggie actions and all that, gets mentioned once. Once! In one sentence! Now excuse me, but that seems to me to be a huge part of the Linda McCartney story. After Linda meets Paul, it's his story that seems to matter the most in this movie. Like when he gets arrested in Japan. When they get back, Paul says to Linda "I know it was harder on you". And we, as viewers, should know that as well, since it's Linda's story. But we don't! We see more of Paul as he's in prison, we only get one brief shot of Linda and the kids in the hotel. I thought this was a badly told story that doesn't do any of the people involved just. I hope Paul never had to see it.

You know what really bothered me about this movie? It's giving out totally the wrong message! Let me summarize the story the way I saw it: "Young man is in the army cause dad wanted him to be. Young man is about to get married and start a family. Young man has to go and fight far, far away from home. Young man is scared. Friends of young man call him coward. Fiancee of young man calls him coward. Young man spends the rest of the movie risking his life and going through hell to prove that he is not a coward and that he should have gone to war when his friends did. Cause that's why young men fight wars, for their friends." Let me say it again people: war is bad, war is terrible, war is killing, war is something every young man should have the right to be scared to death of! Of course it was different in those days, a hundred years ago and all, but the message of the movie is very clear and it should not be given out right now. You are not a coward when you won't fight, because going to war means having to kill people and watching your friends or yourself die. (Beside that, it was a terrible movie with a terrible story that never seemed to end and actors that were playing flat out bad at some times. Only highlight was Wes Bently, as some said before.)