'The Reader'… One of the Most Uplifting Movie Experiences of Your Life
This is a hard quote to swallow
Okay, I liked The Reader. I even included it on my top ten of 2008 in the #10 slot. However, the ad you see directly to the right comes from Nathaniel at The Film Experience as he scanned it out of this weekend's "New York Times".
The quote you see on there comes from Rex Reed and while I enjoy the film I would never call it a "masterpiece" let alone say it is "one of the most uplifting movie experiences" of my life or anyone's for that matter.
Nathaniel calls it false advertising but one of his commenters has a more uplifting look at things:
That isn't false advertising. Rex Reed is reviewing Kate Winslet's acceptance speech, not her movie.
While I still hold to my statement saying The Reader is not a Holocaust movie I would hate to be the movie patron heading into the theater with a picture Kate Winslet's smiling face holding her golden statue and the expectation of having a so-called most uplifting movie experience.
Did anyone come out of The Reader floating on a cloud of joy?
Somehow I don't think this is going to do the film any favors.
You can get a larger look at the ad at The Film Experience and just so you know a DVD and Blu-ray release date has already been set with The Reader hitting store shelves on April 28 with an expected 12 deleted scenes and five making-of featurettes.
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They are trying to sell the film to the viewers but hell yeah they will not be successful. Actually the reader was one of the most depressing movies that I could not even watch with a kind of pleasure. Kate was good, BUT….
cried right now jst thinking of it
She should not have won for this performance
@netshopper: What a thoughtful comment. So much detail and rationale behind your statement. Hopefully you will bring this much thought to all of your comments on the site should you decide to stick around.
OMG! what a disingenuous ploy to catch audience!!!??? everything surrounding the film has been exactly that —fraudulent. its holocaust revisionism plot replete with factual errors; its bamboozle push to the oscars, dislodging other films from the 5th best picture spot; its actress' unfair win at the expense of more deserving nominees, ad nauseum…
"the reader" the film is not uplifting at all, but it's a masterpiece in weintein-winslet deception strategy.
Sorry but Kate should have not won for this movie. there was not real acting on her part i was awaiting. there was more love making scenes if anything. now if she won for playing an older lady then that too was bad she looks as it is but when the makeup people did her as an older person in prison her skin was very clear(not to say that old people do not have good skin) and it looked out of place with her hair it was to fake.