smatysia A tale of rural black life in Georgia during the early decades of the twentieth century. This is Spielberg, so the production values are first rate. The acting is good, and the photography outstanding. This is largely, I suppose, a feminist movie, as most of it is devoted to the female characters, and how cruelly oppressed they are by their men, husbands and fathers alike, being treated as property, (or slaves) including rape and forced incest being simply facts of life. I was surprised that it was an hour and a half in before the point was made about how evil white people are. The payoff at the end was sentimental, poignant, and powerful, a Spielberg trademark. Overall, I suppose it's a pretty good movie, albeit hard to watch the abuse and cruelty.

slightlymad22 Continuing my plan to watch every Steven Spielberg movie in order, I come to The Color Purple.I think this is hands down the best movie of 1985. Yes I include Out Of Africa in that statement. It's not my favourite movie of 1985 (so many more easy to watch, enjoyable movie experiences that year) but it's the best. It's so powerful.This is an insanely brave move by Spielberg!! Looking for a bit of credibility from his peers he chose to make a movie about subjects that are not suited to the movies! It is not an easy movie to sell, nor is It an easy movie watch. The main character Celie (Whoopi Goldberg) endures rape, incest, sexism, an abusive husband, domestic violence, chauvinism, the loss of her sister (The only person who truly loved her) and the loss of her children at birth. Danny Glover is one serious piece of $hït in this!! He is vile, evil and despicable. Great acting. All of the cast is superb, none more so than Oprah Winfrey, she is superb as Sophia (what happens to her may be the saddest part of the movie) likewise Margaret Avery and Willard E. Pugh (who is the comedy relief as Harpo) Laurence Fishburn has a small role too. And then, at the center of the movie is Whoopi Goldberg in what must surely rank as one of the most amazing debut performances in movie history. She should have been the winner of the Academy Award for best actress that year. She is perfect. Sady we lost a great serious actress when she started going down the comedic route. I only have real complaint in that there should have been a tender and touching scene for Winfrey, but for some reason Spielberg decides to go for a slapstick scene that misses the mark. Once again a Spielberg movie had me in tears, the end is one of the great heart-rending moments in the movies. The Academy's prejudice against Spielberg is blatantly evident in the fact that he was not nominated for Best Director. The movie received 11 nominations, for Best picture, Best Actress, has 2 nominated for Best Supporting Actress, Best Writing, Best Art Direction, Best Cinamatography, Best Costume Design, Best Original Song, Best Score and Best Make Up, and a Best Director nod is conspicuously absent. And although The Color Purple had 11 nominations, it won not a single Oscar. His movies made too much money and were too popular for him to be considered a real film maker. The Color Purple was the fourth highest grossing movie of 1985 (behind Back To The Future, Rambo: First Blood Part 2 and Rocky IV) grossing $179 million at the domestic box office.

cinemajesty Movie Review: "The Color Purple" (1985)Director Steven Spielberg receives the award-winning novel by Alice Walker from 1982 translating into capable dramatic story-arcing suspense moments between Father-Daughter-relations to harsh to be portrayed in Up-Town-New-York-City nerighborhood, nevertheless explored by Adrian Lyne directing Glenn Close and Michael Douglas in "Fatal Attraction" (1987), in an fictional Southern child-abuse drama, indulging on how to make a living in rural all-black neighborhood apart from the slave-owning traditions of the pre-civil-war 19th century North America, when Spielberg creates acting beats throughout, especially Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover in superior play-mode, rescue the "Best-Picture" Academy-Award-nominated from a close-to-sure failure of being a prevailing motion picture after more than 30 years, which clearly becomes the vehicle of a growing-up director after directing genre classics "E.T.-the Extra-Terrastrial" (1982) and a second installment of "Indiana Jones" starring Harrison Ford and Cate Capshaw in Hollywood season 1983/1984 with George Lucas executive producing."The Color Purple" can be enjoyed as another sunday afternoon relaxing movie with emotional challenges in atmospheric cinematography and moody Southern décor by avoiding I must say a preferable book-read in stealing away from times of over-flowing visuals from screens all around us.© 2018 Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC

gambrose-77510 Absolutely one of the worst films I've ever watched I can barely muster the motivation to write this review. However you must know the Script is erratic, unrealistic and overplayed by the actors. They are infuriatingly shallow characters... I wonder how they were nominated for any awards let alone win so many! I have to say I think this was a sympathy vote for the all black cast. A total shame on the industry. This movie was a waste of money and a shame for the wonderful Oprah and Whoopi.And let me repeat this once more for emphasis. The AWFUL movie Absolutely one of the worst films I've ever watched I can barely muster the motivation to write this review. However you must know the Script is erratic, unrealistic and overplayed by the actors. They are infuriatingly shallow characters... I wonder how they were nominated for any awards let alone win so many! I have to say I think this was a sympathy vote for the all black cast. A total shame on the industry. This movie was a waste of money and a shame for the wonderful Oprah and Whoopi.