Swept Away

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Madonna is a singer, not an actress. However, I think she did just fine in this movie. It has absolutely nothing to do with whom she married. She played her part of the snooty socialite turned humbled woman just fine. This movie was the perfect example of an unexpected, ragged love. I feel that it can be seen as one of the greatest love movies ever; it is tragic, it is something that could happen. It isn't like all the other love stories that have come and gone. It does not work out perfectly in the end, unfortunately as viewers will come to find. It was real, and not the fairy-tale romance we often see in modern and even older movies. The storyline itself made me realize through one line that sometimes what we want is not exactly what we need. I felt that was the message throughout the entire movie as Amber basically was stripped of her "good life" and was forced into being with Pepe and eventually becoming his lover. Call me crazy for loving Swept Away, but this movie made a deep point about true love, and love that isn't so real. It wasn't some overdone Hollywood flick. It had glamor and glitter, but it still held on to a piece of true human life.

I really wanted to like this movie because the critics have been unkind to it (to say the least)... but it was terrible. Really terrible. Badly acted, a witless script, cack handed direction... Watching this film was like watching a car crash- you want to look away but you keep staring because you want to see how messy it's going to get. Well, the car is wrecked and there are no survivors. On the plus side, the cinematography was nice, made me want to go on holiday, if only to cleanse myself from this unholy

To be frank, people have said that this movie isn't good at all without seeing it because of Madonna. Everyone forgot who was putting the mental effort into this film, Guy Ritchie. I wasn't surprised to watch it and see that it was good because that's what Guy Ritchie does when he makes a movie, he makes a good movie. I think people should put aside their ideas that singers can't be actors and actors can't be singers because there is always an exception.

I watched Swept Away having little else to do, and part of me wished I had read a magazine or an opera DVD instead. Swept Away has few, if any at all, redeeming qualities at all, and there were times where I wished I could turn off the television but reminded myself that is not a fair way to judge a movie. Guy Ritchie's direction for starters is very unimaginative, and the camera work and editing don't have any real charm to them, the camera work is not amateurish as such but shows nothing out of the ordinary, and the editing could've been smoother at times. The script is very hackneyed, the comedic elements are forced and the romantic elements sappy. Also it has the feel of a bad 70s TV drama. The concept has been done to death but that wasn't necessarily a turn off, but the pace is turgid and the story itself doesn't have any interest at all. Likewise with the characters. They don't feel like characters or real people at all, just overdone caricatures. Jeanne Tripplehorn gets the worst of it, and her overdone performance suffers from it. Madonna only so far has impressed me in Evita, but her performance here is lifeless and disengaged here. Only two things have any real spark. One is the striking scenery and the other is the earthy charm of Adrianno Giannini. However these two are not enough to salvage the movie from being an insipid bore. All in all, not recommended. 1/10 Bethany Cox

This is perhaps the worst movie I've ever seen, and I've seen Gigli. It is, however, unintentionally hilarious and as such is worth viewing with friends and some drinks while making jokes all the while- ala Mystery Science Theater. At our party we made a game of it by taking a drink when certain things happened. Shot of Madonna's biceps? Everybody drink! If you decide to do this and you want to get really hammered, try taking a drink every time Madonna says something in her fake British accent. You'll be drunk in no time and then - BONUS! - the movie won't seem as horrific as it really is.

Nothing. I only read bad reviews about this movie, and it also has a 3,6 star rating. I don't understand why, because this movie is more than excellent. It's directed by Guy Ritchie and produced by Matthew Vaughn, the same guys that gave you Lock, Stock and Two Smocking Barrels, Snatch, Revolver and Layer Cake. And you can see that. The directing is excellent, the actors play their parts flawless, the locations are beautiful, the movie has its fun and its sad parts(in the first half i laughed out loud for several times, something that doesn't happen very often to me) and it also has a message. I watch a lot of movies, good ones in my opinion, but it's not often that i see one that actually makes an impression on me. Well this one made a really big impression. All the last reviewers said Madonna can't act. I don't see it. She played her part flawless by anyone's standards. My advice is to see it. You will be pleasantly surprised. My vote is 10/10, because i haven't seen a movie that moved me like this probably since equilibrium, and it's been a long time since that.

"Swept Away" - was written and directed by Guy Ritchie, starred Madonna and Adriano Gianini and based on "Swept Away...by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August" (1974), directed by Lina Wertmuller with Giancarlo Gianini playing the same role as his son 28 years later. This is a story of class and sexual struggle between a man and woman stranded on a desert island. Madonna plays Amber Leighton, the arrogant wife of a rich American pharmaceutical mogul (Bruce Greenwood) who travels on a private yacht from Greece to Italy with friends. Her constant bitching annoys a first-mate Giuseppe Esposito... (Andriano Giannini) I cannot believe that the same Guy who is behind stylish, energetic, funny, and full of wonderful tunes and interesting characters "Snatch" made it. Acting made me and my husband cringe dozens of times. The story, the dialogs, and the scenes between two main characters on the island were gross and tasteless. There were only three redeeming values about the movie. First, the beginning was kind of funny with Madonna playing the arrogant uber-bitch and I don't think it was too big of a stretch for her (I may be wrong). Second, deserted island and beach somewhere in Mediterranean sparkle. Third, and most important, the whole thing was only 89 minutes long. 1.5/10 - TV, first (and last) viewing