This earns extra coolness points just for, uh, being cool. I could live in the bitter ambiance presented here. In fact, I probably do, considering the place Angry Young Men play in cultural history as predecessors to the Beat Generation and today's circle-A Anarchists.
Sometimes British films rule.
You have to be cynical to like films like this. Burton is over the top as usual. Why he is so cynical never comes across, but who cares? I wonder if Burton&Taylor enjoyed marital bliss as depicted in this film or others like Who's Aftaid of Virginia Woolf or Boom (one of the few film I actually walked out of when it first showed to an empty house.
I probably could not have tolerated this film when I was a teen, but then I notice that it is popular enough among IMDb's teenagers. That tells a lot about how times have changed since the in 50 years.
Sometimes British films rule.
You have to be cynical to like films like this. Burton is over the top as usual. Why he is so cynical never comes across, but who cares? I wonder if Burton&Taylor enjoyed marital bliss as depicted in this film or others like Who's Aftaid of Virginia Woolf or Boom (one of the few film I actually walked out of when it first showed to an empty house.
I probably could not have tolerated this film when I was a teen, but then I notice that it is popular enough among IMDb's teenagers. That tells a lot about how times have changed since the in 50 years.