HBO's Empire Falls (1 Viewer)

Jim Rankin · May 30, 2005

Just wondering if anyone else checked this out? I thought it was pretty engrossing - great performances in particular from JoAnn Woodward and Ed Harris. I never read the original book so I couldn't say how faithful the mini-series was to it. With nothing else on right now, there are worse ways to spend 3 and 1/2 hours.

todd s · May 30, 2005

Crap! It started already?? I have to check the repeat schedule.

Francois Caron · May 30, 2005

Ack! I almost forgot! Thanks for the heads-up!

todbnla · May 30, 2005

I liked it but did not care for the ending too much...I was hoping he went for the bookstore. :frowning:

Derek_J · May 30, 2005

Spoil the ending, much?

Robert Crawford · May 30, 2005

I liked it, but also didn't care for the ending and resolution for a couple of characters and situations. I thought HBO's Warm Springs was a better production.

Crawdaddy

todbnla · May 30, 2005

Crawdaddy, thanks for fixing my Oops. :b

Jim Rankin · May 31, 2005

Robert, I agree with you on the ending - after setting up a leisurely pace to tell the story and develop the characters, the ending seemed to be rushed.

Paul_Medenwaldt · May 31, 2005

I haven't watched Part 2 yet, but I did enjoy part 1 very much.

As I was watching this movie, I had a sense that I almost knew the characters already, like i've seen this movie before. Maybe it was the way the movie was made or maybe because it took place in small town, but for some reason it was bugging me. The whole father conflict plot was very familiar.

After I watched the part 1, Spidey senses tingling. i went to IMDB and found out the guy who wrote the book and screenplay was the same guy that did Nobody's Fool with Paul Newman.

Nobody's Fool is one of my favorite movies!

Paul

RobertW · May 31, 2005

Nobody's Fool is a great movie, and while i enjoyed Empire Falls, it paled in comparison.

i see where you got it though. Newman's character is basically the same, there's the older woman/town elder character, the father/son dynamic, son divorcing or newly divorced, Jimmy Minty is a similar foil to Newman/Harris that Bruce Willis portrayed in Nobody's Fool. maybe because this seemed derivative, or for other reasons, but Nobody's Fool is just a better movie.

I basically watched because it was filmed at various locations in my home state of Maine. will have to catch it again to watch it just for the scenery. the author is a former teacher at Colby College in Waterville.

Paul_Medenwaldt · Jun 1, 2005

Well I watched Part 2 last night. I was disapponted in the way it ended.

the whole school shooting plot just seeming out of place.

The end of the movie just seemed so rushed. Its like the director didn't know how to end the movie. I think if they summed up the movie at the end of the first 2 hours in some way, it would of been a lot better film with tightening up some of the story lines.

Paul

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