The Beach details
| Formats: | 15 DVD, Blu-ray |
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| Starring: | Guillaume Canet, Virginie Ledoyen, Tilda Swinton, Daniel York, Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert Carlyle |
| Director: | Danny Boyle |
| Genres: | Drama, Thriller - General, Supernatural |
| Studio: | 20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Collections: | Desert Islands |
| Name | Discs | |
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The Beach |
15 Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 55 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 27 Dec 2000 |
| Main languages: | English |
| Subtitles: | Czech, Danish, English, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish |
| Hearing impaired subtitles: | English |
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What have you done to a Masterpiece story?
By kmcca5 from East Sussex , 28 Sep 2004[Highly rated reviewer]
Danny Boyle and Hollywood have a lot to answer for after butchering Alex Garland’s modern classic!
First off DiCaprio hams up the character of Richard. This I don’t understand. He is great in so many films! "Basket Ball Diaries", "What’s eating Gilbert grape", "Gangs of New York" and the list goes on. I think it was just awful casting, as the whole point of the Richard's character was that he was a geek! Spotty, ginger geek! That had more chance of loosing his eyesight from shaking hands with the governor of love than pulling the “love interest” in the story. But give a story to Hollywood and watch them disfigure it almost as much as the moviemakers did to the beach in Thailand to make the film!
It’s a shame, because there is so much potential there but it all fails to be delivered in this popcorn “oh isn’t Leo cute with his top off” trash!
There is one redeeming feature in that Robert Carlyle puts in a sterling performance as Daffy. One to avoid if you have read the book or if you actually like good films!- Was this review helpful to you?
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(69)Different but good- well worth a watch
By rachaelknight16 (108 reviews) from Derbyshire, England , 03 Sep 2012Loved this film; can't believe I left it so long before watching. It certainly was better than I expected and I'd recommend/ watch it again.
It starts with DiCaprio jet setting off on his own around the world & basically looking for something exciting. He meets a couple who join him in his search for a heavenly beach, after being told it exists by a scary/ mentalist Robert Carlyle. Why he wanted to visit anywhere Carlyle's character had been is beyond me, but he goes nonetheless.
DiCaprio's character begins as a hero; bagging himself a girlfriend, feeding the people with his shark catch, only for things to slowly start getting worse until he's an outcast. You follow him as he turns more and more insane, which is very humourous.
DiCaprio plays it great as you would expect, with excellent support from Swinton, possibly one of her first big films? You can see from the start she's going to be trouble.
Inspiring story to live for excitement/ new things/ new people, but just look before you leap.- Was this review helpful to you?
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One to watch while you do the ironing
By Oozoid (59 reviews) from Ayr , 31 Aug 2012Essentially interesting story spoiled by too much whooping and hollering, a disastrous musical soundtrack, and too many illogical inconsistencies, such as releasing flying lanterns to celebrate the arrival of newcomers -- arrivals which must be kept secret at all cost!- Was this review helpful to you?
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Does the book justice!
By McKuska (2 reviews) , 21 Jun 2012Captures the vibe of travelling in Thailand and does the book justice. Great film with great scenery, never gets boring!- Was this review helpful to you?
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The Beach
By jenzer321 (12 reviews) from Bolton , 27 Nov 2011Great film!
Would watch again, Totally inspiring film and has a great story line, would recommend to a family and friends.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Give it credit, tis great
By a customer , 30 Aug 2011The stars partly reflect how good the book is but the film does it justice. It isn't often that a film captures the mood of a book so successfully but this did and it certainly deserves more than 3 stars overall. The depth of character development and insight into social structures and reactions is fantastic. Most definitely read the book, but watch the film too, they both deserve attention.- Was this review helpful to you?
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