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The Best !!
I loved this movie! I have experienced love like that and it was good to see it on film. My husband and I loved each other at first sight and it was perfect. He went to Iraq and it was the hardest thing I've ever been through, not knowing if he would come home to me. This movie touched my heart, reminded me of new love, and made me appreciate even more that my husband came home safe. I can't wait for the DVD.

Cold Mountain Dew
I love drinking mountain dew. One time, I drank so much live wire dew that I could not sleep for 6 days. I was good though because I had a lot of catching up on homework to do. I'm majoring in basket weaving at college. You know what is really cool, when you're watching this movie, try playing the song Kung Fu fighting right when the movie starts. I think there is some sort of code there. The words mix together between the song and the movie and it reveals hidden messages. One of them is to stand on your roof at 11:58 pm and do jump kicks while urinating at the same time. I tried this and the cops came and put me away for like a week or so. That was ok though; I needed to catch up on some reading. And they gave me mountain dew to swallow my medication with.

Overly Long and Rather Boring
I really disliked the book, COLD MOUNTAIN, but I love the screenwriting of Anthony Minghella. As wonderful a book as THE ENGLISH PATIENT was, Minghella made it into an even better film, so I really believed COLD MOUNTAIN would be a far better film than was COLD MOUNTAIN, the very flawed book. And it was. The only problem is, COLD MOUNTAIN wasn't nearly as good a book as was THE ENGLISH PATIENT. Minghella didn't have nearly as much "raw material" to work with.

COLD MOUNTAIN is a lyrical, poetic film with a dreamy quality. Jude Law captures Inman's lost, shattered quality perfectly but that's about all he's able to capture. During his travels back to Cold Mountain, he's overshadowed by the minor characters he encounters along his way.

Renee Zellwegger is almost perfect. Her Ruby is everything Kidman's Ada is not. Ruby is flamboyant, Ada is quiet; Ruby is capable, Ada let things fall apart; Ruby speaks her mind, Ada is more reserved. Occasionally, though, I felt Zellwegger let Ruby slip almost into caricature, but these few times, however, can be forgiven.

Nicole Kidman who smoldered in TO DIE FOR, sparkled in MOULIN ROUGE and was impeccable in THE HOURS simply recedes into the background when juxtaposed against Zellwegger's extraverted Ruby. The love story between Ada and Inman is simply not believable, either. There's no chemistry between Kidman and Law and I think this did a lot to hurt the film.

I think COLD MOUNTAIN is overly long and I also think its first half is rather boring. Minghella gives us a lot of backstory, mostly in flashbacks, that's fairly interesting, but there's just too much of it.

The very best thing about COLD MOUNTAIN is its cinematography. John Seale, who was the cinematographer on THE ENGLISH PATIENT is also the cinematographer for COLD MOUNTAIN and he brings the same lush, dreamy, poetic qualities to COLD MOUNTAIN as he did to THE ENGLISH PATIENT. Whatever complaint one may have about COLD MOUNTAIN, there is no denying that it is beautifully filmed.

In the end, despite Minghella's masterful treatment, I think the episodic and picaresque qualities of COLD MOUNTAIN are its undoing. The film simply never comes together, never coalesces. COLD MOUNTAIN was an awkward and awkwardly written book and, while Minghella managed to lose the awkwardness of Charles Frazier's naive writing, he couldn't imbue this film with an actual story that was engaging and worthy of a viewer's time.

I wouldn't recommend COLD MOUNTAIN to anyone except Civil War buffs, fans of Kidman, Law or Zellwegger or those who loved the book. If, like me, you didn't like the book, chances are you aren't going to like this film, either.

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