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Leonardo DiCaprio,
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Tilda Swinton,
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Danny Boyle,
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: 20th Century Fox
: Drama, Adventure, Wilderness & Nature
: 119 min.
: English, French
: English, Spanish
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For his first major project after the overwhelming success of Titanic, Leonardo Di Caprio took a risky path in this adaptation of Alex Garland's acclaimed novel, directed by Danny Boyle. Richard (Di Caprio) is an American backpacking through Asia with a handful of friends from Europe. While in Bangkok, he meets a mad Scotsman who calls himself Daffy Duck (Robert Carlyle). Shortly before Mr. Duck kills himself, he gives Richard a crude map to a place in Thailand that he claims is paradise on earth: beautiful, unspoiled, and uninhabited. For lack of anything better to do, Richard and his companions try to locate the spot, which, after a dangerous and taxing journey, takes them to a beach as beautiful as Duck said it would be. Richard and his friends settle in, but before long they discover that they are not alone; a large group of fellow travelers has already dug themselves in, and they have established a community with the same social evils that Richard was hoping to leave behind. Just as important, there is an army of natives who grow marijuana in the nearby hills and do not appreciate the presence of these visitors. The Beach proved controversial during production, partly due to production delays and shifting release dates, partly due to environmental concerns after crew members bulldozed parts of the Thai island of Phi Phi Le for the planting of non-native trees. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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| For Fans of Pretentious Narration
by zeroplusone
January 8, 2006 - 12:55 AM PST
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0 out of 1 members found this review helpful
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| YYet another story of people with 0% body fat and their problems. Am I supposed to believe that Leonardo DiCaprio needs to resort to traveling alone and stealing someone else's girlfriend? Am I also supposed to believe that after arranging a trip to this island they could not at the very least find a way of getting over to it other than swimming? Am I also supposed to believe that if you stumble across a huge field of pot in a foreign country you don't think to yourself "Hey, this must belong to someone who will shoot me if they find me here, so I'd better get the hell out of here!"? By the end of the film Leonardo DiCaprio has stolen someone's girlfriend, cheated on her, and indirectly responsible for getting four people killed. DiCaprio's character, Richard is nothing more than a selfish, whiny little jerk (to be polite) that would have been better off getting shot in the head. But hey maybe the book is better. |
| argh
by bongeth
February 11, 2004 - 11:16 PM PST
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0 out of 1 members found this review helpful
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| a piece of shyet. tilda swinton, I'm suddenly unenamoured of you. |
| just read the book
by ggsuperhero
August 18, 2003 - 3:27 PM PDT
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1 out of 1 members found this review helpful
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| i should have learned my lesson: never ever read the book right before watching the movie. as for the movie itself, it didnt do much for me. the story was not put together well & the acting was mediocre. it's basically just a lame "hollywoodization" of an excellent book. |
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