2 reviews
(1996) In Love And War
ROMANTIC DRAMA
Viewers who are curious about Ernest Hemingway's love life should get a kick out of this movie but for others such as myself, it's a waste of two hours I can never get back. This movie is a real struggle I'm telling you for I've been watching a little bit of this movie throughout the month or two months because each scene is much more unbearable to watch. This is somewhat an altered love story about how a young writer who was injured during WWI falls in love with a nurse who's older than him. The fact that it's about a well known writer people had heard about if by taking the Hemingway completely out of the equation would've been a movie not even worth writing about. Based on two different books by two different authors by the names of Henry S. Villard and James Nagel starring Sandra Bullock as nurse Agnes von Kurowsky Hemingway(Chris O'Donnell) falls in love with. She also happens to be the narrator of the story recounting the days she had with him. Viewers are never given any signs of Ernest's writing talent or how she motivated him on any level. All that I got here is a love story that can best be described as a Harlequin Romance with adults acting like underage teens who's just starting to hit puberty while still in high school arguing about the age difference. I mean, how much fun is watching that. Directed by Oscar winning director Richard Attenborough which by watching this wasn't able to direct it on the manner that he intended- it's either that or he was on one of bad days. Footnote: We also never get to see how the real Agnes von Kurowsky looked like, at the closing credits for I guess she wouldn't even allow it for the lousy job done about her. Bomb.
Viewers who are curious about Ernest Hemingway's love life should get a kick out of this movie but for others such as myself, it's a waste of two hours I can never get back. This movie is a real struggle I'm telling you for I've been watching a little bit of this movie throughout the month or two months because each scene is much more unbearable to watch. This is somewhat an altered love story about how a young writer who was injured during WWI falls in love with a nurse who's older than him. The fact that it's about a well known writer people had heard about if by taking the Hemingway completely out of the equation would've been a movie not even worth writing about. Based on two different books by two different authors by the names of Henry S. Villard and James Nagel starring Sandra Bullock as nurse Agnes von Kurowsky Hemingway(Chris O'Donnell) falls in love with. She also happens to be the narrator of the story recounting the days she had with him. Viewers are never given any signs of Ernest's writing talent or how she motivated him on any level. All that I got here is a love story that can best be described as a Harlequin Romance with adults acting like underage teens who's just starting to hit puberty while still in high school arguing about the age difference. I mean, how much fun is watching that. Directed by Oscar winning director Richard Attenborough which by watching this wasn't able to direct it on the manner that he intended- it's either that or he was on one of bad days. Footnote: We also never get to see how the real Agnes von Kurowsky looked like, at the closing credits for I guess she wouldn't even allow it for the lousy job done about her. Bomb.
- jordondave-28085
- May 1, 2023
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Agnes Von Kurowsky denied up to her dying day that she and "Ernie" had a sexual relationship. Considering his reputation for exaggeration and out and out lying I'll take her word. In his earlier years he was a brilliant writer before alcohol abuse and depression did him in. He was also a liar, braggart, bully, racist, anti-Semite,misogynist and an easy rider who lived off the trust funds of his first two wives, Hadley and Pauline. If he was so Macho and eager for Combat then I guess he would have joined the American Army and volunteered for infantry duty in France instead of driving an ambulance in Italy and being wounded accidentally taking cigarettes and candy to real soldiers on the front lines.