Angels in America was the best thing I have seen in ages

[Cheswick2.0]

I wish now I had seen it on broadway. I loved how the movie used the idea of having people play multiple characters. In theater you would do this to save salaries, but you would "make it work". In other words you would incorporate the idea into the fabric of the story.
They didn't have to do it for the movie but it added that touch of theater that movie adaptations are often missing.
The humor in the secound part was brilliant. The whole Dorothy waking up back in Kansas had me laughing out loud. I thought the whole thing was just wonderful and I am going to go buy two fresh tapes and tape both parts to keep.

[displacedtexan]

1. Wasn't the dialogue amazing?

Actually, the whole package: editing; directing; acting; art direction; set decoration; and costuming/make up!

This is TV at its best. Feature films should be so good!

[Cheswick2.0]

10. I was better than most movies I have seen

but I have to give a lot of credit to the original theatre production for that. Theatre is so creative, it must be to work and the movie stayed loyal to the theatre production which many movies do not.

[MuseRider]

2. I am glad

the second part sounds like it was as good as the first. I hope to catch a replay but since yesterday was the year anniversary of my brothers death from AIDS I just simply could not watch it. I think I will tape it and watch it in a month or so. I loved the first part. I would be interested if anyone who has experienced this with a loved one would comment. My brother had some very strange dreamlike haunts as he got closer to death, not the usual pre death experiences but it was very similar to what was show in the first part. Is this just a coincidence?

[arwalden]

5. I'm Just Like You...

I've had enough already. I can't take it anymore. I understand that it's well done, well acted, well scripted, well shot, inspirational and all that... but I'm tired of dealing with it.

Selfish, I know. Sorry. --- But I also can't watch And The Band Played On and Long Time Companion and In The Gloaming or any other half-dozen dramas/documentaries.

Maybe later. Not now.


-- Allen

[MuseRider]

13. There is a part of me

that needs to understand this disease, it is so very odd what it does to people. There is a part of me that can't bear it at all and just wants to avoid it, especially having dealt with it so recently and so closely. I just thank God that my brother knew he could come across the country and be with me. He was with me for a long while after he died. I felt his warm touch on my sholders the moment he took his last breath and he was with me at different times while I learned to adjust to life without him. From what I saw of the first part of the movie it seemed to be dealing with issues similar to that so I must force myself to finish it for my own sanity because this was the hardest thing in my life. These movies are good for people who need to learn but they are very difficult to get through. No, you are not selfish.

[Cheswick2.0]

8. I have lost many friends

several of them had similar "haunts". Who knows for sure why it happens. It could be the dementia some AIDs sufferers get.

PS... my deaths are farther in the past so it is not so raw anymore. But still I cried because it was so realistic in the ways people suffer. One friend was abandoned by lover and family both. Luckily he had a family of friends who loved him.

[MuseRider]

14. So many are abandoned.

I would be interested in some of the "haunts" if you remember them. That was part of the worst for me, he was so frightened and puzzled by them. I knew about the dementia but his "haunts" were so similar to what the movie portrayed. It really brought it all crashing back so on his death anniversary I watched movies and Survivor with my son, I just could not handle the film.

[demnan]

3. It was a really interesting program

I thought some of it was a bit excessive, as I don't get the religious parts that much, but Pacino and Streep were brilliant.

[JanMichael]

4. The writer/director was on Fresh Air (Or some other...

...similar show) and spoke in depth about his creation.

Interesting guy, he mentioned that he was an Agnostic so writing the religious piecs were a strain, but that they turned out OK from what he'd heard.

I haven't seen it yet.

[Cheswick2.0]

7. you would probably like it

I think it treat the idea of religion evenly and with a great deal of insight. It is obvious the writer is agnostic. I didn't agree with everything he had to say, but I thought his ideas and images were very insightful.

[ArkDem]

6. Gee, I wish Monty Python had thought of that

>I loved how the movie used the idea of having people play multiple characters<

[Cheswick2.0]

9. not exactly origianl to monty python either

It has been done in the theatre forever.

[ArkDem]

12. We were talking about movies, I thought

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[Braden]

11. I caught the last two hours last night

it was pretty good. I found the "dorothy" scene pretty damn funny.

I will have to watch the first one now. My wife was all giddy about watching it. I dont normally take interest in mini-series.

I had a friend die from cancer recently and have been revisiting the whole spiritual question pretty deeply lately.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

15. I saw a touring stage production

in Portland, and the movie is pretty faithful to the play, but of course, film enabled them to "open up" the story and add all sorts of special effects.

[Johnyawl]

16. I thought it was brilliantly done...

...and deeply moving.