Giant (Two-Disc Special Edition) (Keepcase) | Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson

Giant (Two-Disc Special Edition) (Keepcase) | Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson | One of my most favorite movies

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	Giant (Two-Disc Special Edition) (Keepcase) Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson Warner Home Video, 2005 average customer review:based on 111 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

GIANT STANDS TALL

Giant is one of those Weekend afternoon or evening movies where you need to dedicate some time to it. It's long--over 3 hrs--but it's cast is so strong and the plot so solid time goes fast. Rock Hudson, Liz Taylor, James Dean seem real and "human"--not just actors. No real plot holes--just a great story. If you like truly great cinema, on the whole, "Giant" fully measures up to its expectations.

One of my most favorite movies

This is one of my favorite movies of all time. I am impressed that the timing was right ontime.

A GREAT ESCAPE TEXAS STYLE ON A COZY SUNDAY AFTERNOON!!!!

Although I enjoyed seeing Giant on dvd for the first time, I will always treasure watching it on the big screen re-release during the films 40th Anniversary, which also included an exhibit of memorbilia!!! This movie is so rich in detail, storytelling, and acting. Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, and James Dean were outstanding in their performances, and eventhough Mercedes McCambridge had a small role I liked what she represented, strength and fierce independence!!!

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A monument to myths about Texas size, wealth, and vulgarity...

"Giant" met the lush, sprawling Edna Ferber novel on its own level... Detailing the history of a Texas royal family, the movie, like the novel, is a monument to myths about Texas size, wealth, and vulgarity...

A well-bred lady from Virginia, Liz is the outsider who marries the big, strong, thick-headed ruler of a family dynasty (Rock Hudson) and who stubborn1y refuses to lose her own notions of right and wrong...

In choosing as his bride this independent woman who won't conform to Texas folkways, Hudson selected a wily and persevering antagonist, a lady with a mind of her own who challenges, and loves him every step of the way... At the end, when he fights the owner of a roadside diner who will not serve his Mexican daughter-in-law and grandchild, Liz can count the twenty-five-year battle hers... Playing the liberal to her husband's reactionary, she's succeeded finally in educating her man... It's one of the few occasions when Taylor's the wise teacher rather than the recalcitrant pupil...

The marriage--a prototype for the Taylor ménage, in which tenderness and turbulence are closely mixed--is set against the evolution of Texas from old-fashioned to modern... As horse-loving Virginia deb, as new bride, as threat to her husband's mannish domineering sister, as young wife and mother, as patrona of the ranch who would rather talk politics with the men than chit-chat with the women, as the unattainable mistress of Jett Rink's dreams, as dignified, middle-aged champion of American-Chicano integration, Liz is at the center of the epic canvas, and it's a wise and charming performance...

Stevens again shots the stillness of her serene beauty, but he also explores the temperament of the Taylor spitfire... Leslie Lynnton is one of Taylor's strong heroines, one of the few women she's played who, if they absolutely had to, might make it on their own...

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