The Beach (Wide Screen)

Advantages: See review
Disadvantages: See review

...to watch this film. Despite the fact that the film had its cinematic release in 2000 I did not actually get round to seeing The Beach until about one month ago. Given my inherent dislike of Leonardo DiCaprio, it took a half price deal in Blockbuster to make me relinquish £1.00 (!) and hire the DVD of this generally very highly acclaimed film. The Beach tells the story of a young American backpacker (Richard) who travels to Thailand in search of ...
...of a hidden paradise – The Beach. Nobody knows where it can be found, except for a chosen few – one of whom is Daffy as he has a map of how to get there. Inspired by the promise of adventure, Richard takes it upon himself to seek out The Beach. Taking a shine to the French girl staying in the room next to his, he invites her and her boyfriend to take the journey with him – an offer they duly accept. Will they find The Beach – ... Read review

Advantages: Looks gorgeous, Has Leo topless 90% of the time(well YOU might see that as an advantage!)
Disadvantages: Limp romance, loses itself, scared to explore the more interesting themes it touches upon

...with Leonardo Di Caprio in the starring role - what could be more enjoyable? Perhaps an evening spent sticking pins in your eyes eh? I've had the misfortune of enduring three of Leo's other movies before this one: Critters 3 (which he can't be blamed for), The Man In The Iron Mask where he's miserably miscast in a crap movie and more unfortunately he plays two roles badly instead of just one and Titanic...don't get me started on that one! With those ...
...less than interested in seeing The Beach either and wouldn't have were the choice entirely up to me in those days. Sadly it wasn't and I did and anyway, I heard the book it was based on was meant to be good. All I can say is, there can't have been that much of the book which actually made it into the movie. It's easy to criticise Leo, so I'm not going to. If you like him, then you like him, if not, then he looks 14 years old and it's difficult to ... Read review

Advantages: not too bad a movie
Disadvantages: but it rips the book to shreds

...- sorry if you liked the movie yourselves and it isn´t `that´ bad but I´m a big fan of the book and although some movies of books leave out little bits of the storyline, this movie absolutely slaughtered the book. But its a review of the movie you´ve all clicked to see so its a review of the movie you´re going to get, a quick insight into the storyline of the movie, a young American backpacker named Richard decides that he wants to visit Thailand ...
...life is still pretty much the same until one night, he meets Daffy a crazed man who rambles on about `The Beach´, a paradise that nobody knows exists where the sand is golden and the waters are a pure blue, of course it wouldn´t be much of a movie if Richard didn´t investigate would it? so of course he does, taking a French couple along with him, he goes off in search of this paradise and finds a whole lot more than he expected. Right I´ll stop there, ... Read review

Advantages: Carlyle, the scenery
Disadvantages: Di Caprio's face

...for his helpless wee body, the sort of arrangement of features which all the females go "Ooh" at, only this time it's with rather more basic urges than Mumsy ones. Leonardo Di Caprio, these are the reasons all right thinking males despise you with an almost unnatural hatred. Appallingly bad in The Man In The Iron Mask and pretty uninspiring in Titanic, he took the big name lead role in The Beach and the question was absolutely "Can he kick it?" ...
...Not as good as the ultimate hard man, Bobby Carlyle, that is, but then what did you expect. Bob seems to revel in recreating his persona from Trainspotting and you can see he scares the bodily waste out of old Lennie. Compare and contrast the realism and passion of their respective usage of the term "f***". With Lennie it seems to hurt his childlike chin as it sneaks out, but Bob's a real man's man and in his hands, "f***" becomes his lifeblood, ... Read review

Advantages: Great acting and storyline
Disadvantages: Too much emphasis on drug taking

...well, two great films in the same week, so I`ve just got to do another film review. Richard, played by Leonardo Dicaprio, travels to Thailand in the hope of doing something different, instead of just being a typical tourist. On his first night in the hotel he has what can only be described as an extremely wierd conversation with a bloke named Daffy, played by Robert Carlyle(trainspotting). The fact that Daffy was found dead very early in the film ...
...set off to see if the island really exists. After swimming to the island they first come accross a gigantic field of marijuana. Thinking they`ve landed in paradise, they start running around the field. This is when Richard discovers an armed guard asleep on the ground who is supposed to be patrolling the field. On trying to flee the field without being seen, loads more guards appear and they soon realise they`re in very dangerous territory. On ... Read review