Beanbioca
As Good As It Gets
Spoonatects
Am i the only one who thinks........Average?
Kien Navarro
Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.
merklekranz
Like Graham Greene's dinner recommendations, "Christmas in the Clouds" skips the main course, and goes directly for the desert. The movie is sweet, perhaps too sweet. There is no conflict, just misunderstandings, and the film ties everything together happily. The editing seems to be rather choppy, and the narration rather unnecessary. This movie has something for everybody, appealing to the romantics, with the identity mix up, the children, with a cute mouse, and the Christmas crowd, with some caroling. If all you require is a feel good film, then this might be of interest. If on the other hand you are looking for more of a story, this plain vanilla fluff might not satisfy. - MERK
edwattsupp
I wandered the isles of my local video store feeling like I've seen everything and slightly bored and then this DVD box caught my eye. What a delight of a movie--it's 1/2 typical Hollywood laugh material if not somewhat a mix of British community theater type humor--but then that other half!!! Very unusual situations and the characters are so rich. My favorite quote is from a vegetarian cook forced into service cooking meat dishes. He says to a hungry young couple as they order dinner: " After the animal is drained of life it is marinated in a rich herb sauce then cooked in our special ovens". Priceless, just priceless-- if you could see Graham Green deliver this line, I rolled onto the floor and immediately called a friend to say "Get this movie".
Charles Delacroix
I liked but am not enthusiastic about this movie. How to describe it? Something of a Comedy of Manners, in the spirit of one of the old Cary Grant movies. Or something like that delightful movie with Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye with Rosemary Clooney and Vera Allen, in the exquisite "White Christmas," set in a snowy Christmas lodge setting. In this movie, though, we have a snowy Christmas lodge setting with a distinctively Native American flavor and contemporary mores.The Native American setting was to me interesting and (as far as I know) authentic. I say "as far as I know" because, on the one hand, I have some Native American background myself, and live in Oklahoma, and have regular contact with folks who live within contemporary Native American culture ... yes, including bingo and tribal chief electioneering and tribal commercial enterprise and also genuine if fragile roots in Native American culture of the past ... language, song, hunting skills, spirituality of Nature, and more.I also say "as far as I know" because I can't claim the kind of depth of background indicated in the movie and have no experience at all of life on a "rez."The humorous sequences were just wonderful ... hilarious, artful, engaging, and full of contagious laughter. I think especially of the sequences at the opening and closing of the movie. The middle of the movie seemed to lag at times in terms of humor, as well as plot and dialog.Cinematography was excellent. There are some breathtaking scenes of fog and snow and mountain and tree.The script for the central romance seemed to me a little strained. The female lead (Marianna Tosca as Tina Little Hawk) was excellent, but her part in the scripted dialog often seemed lagging to me: she smiled brightly and winsomely and almost airheadedly ... yet we know from her first appearance and from subsequent sequences that she was nothing of the sort. The central conversation just didn't have anything like the pace or humor or crisp airy delight of the same kinds of scenes in the Cary Grant or Crosby/Hope flicks.Still Graham Greene as Earl the Chef was wonderfully humorous. His interactions with the Guests was hilarious. And the final sequences almost make up in quickness and focus and good humor and fun for the lagging middle sequences of the movie. Sam Vlahos as Joe Clouds on Fire was excellent; and Emmet Walsh as Stu turned in a fine performance; and the interactions between Joe and Stu were both the most touching and the most humorous of a movie full of good humor.
medical-ins
Also as a non-native this movie could have been ANY small town, any race,any religon, and it would have been a riot. Great Work! It's a SHAME it hasn't gotten NATIONAL Credit and / or Distribution. Thanks again, Bill Fowle
