Just watched "Cold Mountain"

[MissMillie]

The performances in this movie were just wonderful! I was most impressed with Rene Zellwinger.

The music was just fabulous too.

It's always nice to finish watching a movie and feel like you've been entertained.

Good job, Cold Mountain.

[JCMach1]

1. Good acting, but afterwards I felt

cheap and used and in need of a cigarette...

[StClone]

3. Nicole Kidman

After "Eyes Wide Shut" that's happens to a lot of moviegoers.

[Bertha Venation]

2. Wasn't Zellweger terrific?! "Ah know yer plaght."

She was the best part of that film, followed closely by Jude Law. I believed in him -- he totally sold it to me.

Too bad the movie was so violent and depressing. But they recovered well at the end.

[gottaB]

4. really liked that movie

Did Inman really survive the Petersberg siege? Certainly he suffered a kind of spiritual death in the crater battle. Think of how long and drawnout some of the deaths were. Both his and Ada's survival are shrouded in mystery. Was there really a reunion? Was Minghella playing it straight with us?

Anyway, I really liked it.

[poliguru]

5. But why did it take him a year to walk 100 miles?

[redqueen]

6. He got arrested a couple of times? n/t

[redqueen]

7. Yes I loved that movie, too

Jack White did a nice job... loved the serenade scene. :)

[VOX]

8. I liked it, but I never was convinced of any "heat" between the two leads.

I just never felt any sparks between the characters played by Jude Law and Nicole Kidman. The director finally tosses in a soft-core scene (which clashed in tone with the rest of the picture), but that too seemed devoid of authentic emotion. I was also bothered by the stock-psycho Home Guard, who appeared with exasperating regularity -- whenever any "good" character was relaxed or enjoying themselves, in they rode, whooping it up, all-too-ready to commit mayhem -- they seemed to act as a sheer plot device to throw characters into jeopardy (or worse).

On the upside, Renee Zellweger was terrific, as was the actor who played her father, Brendan Gleeson.

Two haunting scenes stick in memory: The runaway slaves moving out of the cornfield and onto the dirt road, with Inman unable to get so much as a word out of them; and the anxiety and loneliness of Sara (Natalie Portman), who seemed especially vulnerable in her youth and convincingly perilous circumstances.

But I would like to see the picture again. My wife says that I'm a *tough* critic. :)

[mondo joe]

9. Oh, my complaints, my complaints

1. Nicole Kidman is supposed to be hungry and beaten down, but she looked more and more ethereal and fresh faced as it went on. HELLO.

2. I thought it broadcast everything that was about to happen - I announced virtually every event before it happened.

My husband paused the mocieat one point saying "I'm going to the bathroom before whatever last bad thing happens so the movie can end".

It was pretty to look at, but Renee Zellwegger and Phillip Seymour Hoffman accounted for the only ENERGY in the whole damn thing.

[sdfernando]

10. Best line

The best line in the movie was after Rene Z. twisted the head of the rooster and said "Lets put it in a pot!" I almost fell of my chair!