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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0096009286590
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Platinum Disc
Manufacturer: Platinum Disc
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Platinum Disc
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 01, 2005
Running Time: 109 minutes
Sales Rank: 7676
Studio: Platinum Disc
Theatrical Release Date: 2000
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Studio: Platinum Disc Llc Release Date: 01/31/2006 Run time: 209 minutes
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Rating:  - Not really on the beach
In this brutally long (the DVD I received was 3+ hours, not 109 minutes as listed) mockery of Nevil Shute's book, it's pretty clear the makers of the movie were being overly ambitious and motive-driven with their interpretation of a contemporary outlook. But first, the story...
The story is fairly simple. It's the end of the world, a catastrophic condition of post-nuclear war. The last people left alive are in the Southern hemisphere, specifically Australia and New Zealand. These people have the unfortunate knowledge of their impending doom, as radioactive fallout insidiously drifts towards them.
As for the interpretation, there was simply too much being force-fed into the script, especially when so much of the original intention of civility and purity in the face of danger was being capriciously ignored. The subtle messages of introspection are lost amidst the anti-military, anti-American messages permeating throughout - perhaps the influence of political correctness. I despise movies that take a book's name and then drastically deviate. Take a few liberties; just don't stomp on Nevil Shute's grave.
There are too many aspects of the movie that went astray, but for starters:
-The wrong people go ashore for the mystery signal mission. Originally it was one person, not two, and it surely wasn't the commander and his second-in-command. (What is this? Star Trek?)
-Peter and Mary Holmes' have a baby, not a toddler. (I guess it was too difficult ... Read More
Rating:  - On The Beach
I have always liked Armand Assante, and he doesn't disappoint in this movie. It's a very compelling story about the horrors of someone in some country deciding to push the nuke button. Rachael Ward does a good job portraying a maturing hedonist, who as the story unfolds indulges herself in a somewhat complicated love triangle. All in all, the movie is definitely worth watching.
Rating:  - OMG This is AWFUL
I loved the original movie (with Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner) when I saw it a few months ago, and then read the book. Both were great.
This movie remake, however, is absolutely terrible. Armand Assante simply cannot act. Rachel Ward was all too predictible as Moira, and the dialogue that was invented for this version was excrutiating.
Stick with the originals - this one will make you cringe.
Rating: - Made for TV tripe
This made-for-TV updated version of "On The Beach" did not add any corrections to the science part. Was to chicken to say that the war started by a third country with an other country's markings on the plane. (The purpose for our missile defense system.) The characters were modified to reflect today's politically correct characters. The government would never let this Dwight Towers near a sub. He can not follow orders and thinks love is greater than his duty to his country or crew. Moira Davidson the young lady without direction is exchanged for Moira Davidson lush owner of a travel agency. Mary Holmes a demure housewife that cant look at the facts is exchanged for an architect that can not look at the facts. The purpose of the story is lost in some sort of sci-fi thing.
Yes the book was written in the Cold War Era environment. However I believe it is timeless. Someone else must think so or they would not have made an updated version for our no too distant future. Yet some characters are predictable. Even those character that change easily through some sort of epiphany can be predictable. The basic story is that Albania sends a plan with a major country's markings and we retaliate. However this is not a pacifist (don't build bombs book). This is not a sci-fi book. It could be a speculative fiction or just speculative.
The book On the Beach as most books is more complete in the characterization and description of the story. One the people is a cross of characters. The ... Read More
Rating: - A devastating, though not paralyzing elegy
Originally my intent was to catch the first few minutes of this movie, and then dismiss it and get on with my weekend. After all, how many doomsday movies can you name that didn't leave a bitter taste in your mouth at the sheer lameness of Hollywood's tear-jerking and corner-cutting? How many doomsday movies out of Hollywood manage to make you think? Thankfully, this production had the Australians on board.
The imagined cataclysm, rewritten for the new millennium, was instantly plausible, and then over in a flash, and the movie immediately cuts to the predicament of the USS Charleston's crew. They are as much on edge as the viewer, yet this is one of the stiffest scenes of the movie, and the next few minutes seem to bode very poorly for the plot. There is the temptation to prejudge the movie as a steroidal and grotesquely superficial action flick.
But the plot instantly takes a turn, the tension subsides and is put in perspective, and the movie takes off spectacularly. From then on out, "On the Beach at Night," the Walt Whitman poem whose first stanzas inspired the title of the novel, is an entirely apt metaphor for the subtleties of the story's unfolding. It moves documentary-like, with characters who face a nearly inconceivable collective dilemma, and who only gradually begin to internalize their own exceedingly lonely demise, wherein they must cut themselves off from everyone and everything they once knew.
To be sure, one can still fault the movie later on for ... Read More
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