Love Story

[SPOILERS] Bleurgh. I'm a sappy, romance loving kinda fella but God! I could not stand this. I hated the characters, I cared not a bit for either Ryan O'Neal or Ali MacGraw, which actually, is the only thing I found particuarly wrong with this, oh, the dialogue...yeah. The music and the scenery were great though, make the characters likeable if you're going to kill one of them off, beauty just won't cut it, sheesh. Oh, and; 'Love means never having to say you're sorry.' No, no it doesn't.

When I sat down to watch this, I expected the overly saccharine story of two perfect people in love. But, to the movie's credit, none of these elements ever appear. Instead, it has two whiny and unlikable protagonists woodenly act out the most unconvincing love story ever written. Can it even be a "love story" if these two barely seem to like each other? It certainly didn't feel like one. I did, however, get the cliche, void-of-emotional-impact ending that I was expecting, so there is that.

You need more than a soundtrack for making a movie.

The script is terrible, awfully, completely terrible. Hiller tries to transcend the material and, while occasionally his camera movements are graceful, it usually comes off as desperate.

Rewatch. Love Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry. Love Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry!? Love Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry... The music is memorable, the scenery does a lot of heavy lifting, and Ryan O'Neal is so expressive in this you forget he turns out to be an asshole. Ali MacGraw does have the worst lines and hair. I wish they didn't gloss over so many milestones and didn't show any real reconciliation. Fav scene: long shot of him and her walking in the snow.

I guess what big an impact this movie makes depends a lot on the moment you watch it. For me, it was obviously too late since I feel like I've already watched dozens of variations of the same plot. Rich guy falls in love with unusual girl, obstacles, obstacles, love, love, huge and "unexpected" twist, drama. I mean, there's nothing really special about it - not even visually. And why should you care about what happens to the characters when there's hardly anything about them you could like?

It's incredibly tempting to pick this apart, with its multitude of cliches, trite message and glossing over of pretty much everything of significance in the lives of these characters. Despite all that, I have to admit I liked it and its emotional core makes up for all the other wrongs it commits. I still couldn't help rolling my eyes at lines like "love means never having to say you're sorry," though.

I liked this movie a lot more before I actually sat down to watch it.

Decent story that skims over most of the depths and drama that are a normal part of a relationship. Everything is glossed over and most of the movie is just a bunch of barely strung together montages. The theme is the best part but is over used. The leads were...okay. I enjoyed it more than I normally would've because I watched it with my wife.

The title is fairly perfect -- it's reminiscent of something like Scary Movie, and it might as well be a parody, too. Hiller does his best to bring the material above the din, but the script is just awful, and the two leads being completely unconvincing (or just flat-out terrible in O'Neal's case) certainly doesn't help. The score is well done, at least?

The progenitor of the modern chick-flick, and boy does it show. All of the cheap tricks are here, the sappy soundtrack, the cutesy but empty dialogue, the contrived tragedy, everything you hate about modern chick flicks can be found in this one damn film. The only thing keeping this out of the red is Hiller's direction, which manages to breathe at least a hint of life into this maudlin mess. If love means never having to say you're sorry I sincerely hope the folks behind this hate me.

A decent premise poorly told, good music that's overused, terrible dialogue, weirdly forced profanity, and generally unlikeable characters. I did not believe the characters were in love; the chemistry wasn't there. Ali MacGraw in particular is just not a good actress and fails to make me care. Similar stories have since been told in much better films.

With a tag line that is set up to literally ruin any marriage if attempted, Love Story is a poorly written slog of a romance. Jennifer is a take on the manic-pixie-dream-girl, but whose quirky trait is just saying "preppy" and "bullshit" over and over. The laughable dialogue is problematic, but the fact that there is no real conflict other than a throwaway death dooms the film to becoming boring.

The screenplay is pathetic. I didn't buy their "love" for a second and a lot of the dialogue is a joke. I won't lie and say it's not at least slightly moving, but I'm a bit on the sappy side anyways.

"Necrophilia means never having to say you're sorry." Instantly iconic weeper is a tepid, unmemorable affair 50 years later; this particular sort of story requires an extra energy in the supporting elements to distinguish itself. Unfortunately, neither MacGraw or (especially) O'Neal are really up to the challenge, leaving the primary appeal to Hiller's creative and interesting direction, and a pair of nice supporting performances from Marley and Milland as the respective fathers.

You just kind of have to accept the dialogue and whatever else irks you and just have fun with it. Take it as an artifact of 1970 - As that alone I found it pretty interesting.

I liked that this film did not even try to be anything else than what the title was promising. Both actors were fine and I liked the dialogue most of time. John Marley was brilliant as Ali's father.

Nauseating dialogue and sickly soundtrack, too much.

Ali McGraw is sassy.

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A good cheesy campy romance, excellent for the ladies.

Boy, if she said preppie one more time I swore I was going to reach right in there and smack her one. O'Neal and MacGraw alternate with moments of non-actor immortality. And then she dies very tidily indeed. The book was a lot better (although it had its problems too).

The romance between O'Neal and MacGraw is okay. The most I liked how the tedious father-son relationship is more to fault to the sons own hotheadedness than the perceived fathers stubbornness. Who can be seen as an old-fashioned man trying to reach out to his son in his own way. No wonder they used the best actor for that small part to convey all this. Unfortunately the movie infuses some unnecessary tragic drama into the last act by making one of the leads terminally ill.

Unwatchable. MacGraw is bad in this. Lazy trite writing. A lazy story overall. Cliche story about two people who don't belong together at all but we get to watch them be a bad couple who probably kept a lot of bad couples together and unhappy for years after this was released. It must have been infinitely easier to make people get teary-eyed in 1970 than it is now because the ending was terrible

boy u can have a cheese fondue made wid de wholesome amount of cheesy crappy unneeded emotionally exhausting moments in here..grunt grunt grunt!

It was alright when things were actually happening, but I got pretty bored in the long empty patches. I have no idea what the father's final scene was supposed to mean.

Altın Kürelerde bütün ödülleri alıp da, Oscar'da müzik haricinde sıfır çeken film. Bizimkisi 1 aşk hikayesi gibi başlayan film, Ryan O'Neill ve Ali MacGraw'ın performansıyla izlettiriyor. Aralarında bağ çok gerçekçi. Öykü o kadar iyi ki, filmin kusurlarını da kabul ediyoruz. Gülen 1 kırmızı koltuk gördüm. Filmin sonunda, Aşk asla özür dilememektir. O zaman Aşk için ölmeli Aşk o zaman Aşk.

Not my cup of tea.

It's got this weird sort of false cynicism. Like it hopes that by making the leads snarky and sarcastic it means that the story isn't just one giant cliche after another. And then there's the brick drop of a third act. Nice camerawork though, good editing, great use of the Cambridge setting. Shit script.

Many people hate this movie but I like it very much....I've affected by the first and last secene

After all these years it is still a nice movie to watch.