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5 Responses to “The Bounty”

1. By Anonymous on Dec 6, 2009 | Reply

   I was very disappointed after watching this sad, sad, sad interpretation of the glorious Mutiny on the Bounty and find it difficult to believe that so many people gave this movie 4 plus stars. Given the actors and the storyline, I had much higher expectations and was genuinely let down by this shallow rendition. After sitting through all the bad screenwriting, over dramatic acting by Anthony Hopkins, Mel Gibson and Liam Neeson, and all the long drawn out/miscued pauses, not to mention the psychopathic music accompanying each badly acted, over dramatic scene, I wanted to toss the DVD, DVD player, and television overboard – actually off my balcony.
   Rating: 1 / 5

2. By D. PALMER Jr. on Dec 6, 2009 | Reply

   I liked this movie alot, up until the crew gets to the island. I was not prepared for the excessive nudity, and it was offensive. The nudity was upper body of island females. It was done to be authentic to the time and place, and perhaps the islanders really lived that way. So, if nudity doesn’t bother you in this context, then you would probably enjoy this movie. If you find nudity in movies as inappropriate as my family does, then I would not purchase this movie.
   Rating: 2 / 5

3. By Emran Hussain on Dec 6, 2009 | Reply

   I was soo excited by reading these reviews and i purchased this DVD and Ooooh my god !! its a soooo short story… I can remember I watched the balck and white 1935 version, there was more details about this mission, i liked to enjoy those, but this movie is soooooo brief,, i could not even imagine when the mutiny took place so soon, I was expecting more scene and events before the mutiny and there were some more happenings in this story, but how come this movie gets soooooooo short,…. it seemed as this DVD was the theme show of original 1935 bounty story., if someone asked me to make a comment about this movie as a theme of bounty original story, well I would have given 5 stars, but as a complete movie, it is not,
   In a word, I should say, this movie is ok but sooo incomplete that, you wont enjoy the details, rather, you will just know the brief summery of what happened.,

   I would suggest, try to get any color version of 1935 bounty, I am waiting for that DVD of 1935, i saw in the amazon[.com] that, there is another version of bounty, BOUNTY (1960), i dont know about it, and after purchasing this brief summery type movie, i am not daring to go for that,…anyway…i am disappointed about this 1980 version bounty.
   Rating: 1 / 5

4. By Kelly L. Norman on Dec 7, 2009 | Reply

   I must say that this is the first film or book I’ve been fully exposed to concerning the Bounty and its men. I was drawn to this DVD primarily because of my secret love affair with Mel Gibson (he doesn’t know about it; that’s what makes it secret).

   But I was hoping the story would be exciting and well-written too. Except for very good acting by a number of persons, including Wi Kuki Kaa as the king of Tahiti and father of Christian Fletcher (Gibson)’s love interest (That little–never mind.)Considering both Gibson and Sir Anthony can act with both hands tied behind their back balancing a dolphin on their heads, I was not surprised by the characterizations of Mssrs. Bligh and Christian–a ray of light in the film. The scenery is magnificent, and the storm scenes exciting. But rather than sail, it floundered.

   My problem with this film was believability. In short, since the overall theme was a cruel ship’s master driving his first mate and others to mutiny, I expected to find Bligh’s character to be some shade of ruthless. I also thought he was supposed to run the ship with obsessive authoritarianism, carping at the crew for the slightest departure from English decorum. A scene of the crew dancing reluctantly to a fiddle tune (the world’s first aerobics class!) certainly exhibited a difference between captain and crew as to what they thought sailors should be doing. But is that any different than drills current people in the service (whether in Britain or elsewhere) are told to do? At any rate, the dance “class” seemed more the idea and for the enjoyment of the 3rd in command, who seemed to get a lot of joy out of it, not the captain, who looked on nervously.

   It was only after several people had deserted, his first mate directly disobeyed orders, and all the sailors were involved in behavior not appropriate for officers to be doing in public, that he really made waves.

   But that is part of the problem, too. Up until that point, the movie seemed like an apologia for Bligh. But after he did get fed up to the gills, ordering cruel punishments for small infractions, and re-ordering the ship back through a dangerous zone for his own glory, that didn’t seem the case. Note, however, that all this occurred after the mutineers were hatching their plot. Neither Bligh nor Christian come out smelling like an anenome in this seafaring tale.

   This would have been a fine movie to rent. It’s exciting at points, beautiful, and romantic. But as a story, it does not hang together well. I would not recommend shelling out any fins to buy it.

   (But don’t pirate it either, that’s illegal).
   Rating: 3 / 5

5. By Tim Culley on Dec 7, 2009 | Reply

   I first saw this a while ago and had very high hopes for it, as the 1935 classic is one of my all-time favourites. Unfortunately though this is a dissapointing film. Hopkins and Gibson are the only two interesting characters in it, and many great actors are shockingly wasted, especially Olivier and Fox, who are hardly even in it. The film has a different approach to the story and is not very well told, with Bligh a rather fair person who turns cruel for seemingly no reason, and he doesn’t even approach the tyranny that Charles Laughton expressed in his unmatched performance, making the crew’s mutiny seem almost totally unjustified. It also has the look and feel of a TV movie, and though out of interest I would like to see this new DVD in all it’s widescreen glory, I am still holding out for a DVD of the definitive 1935 Mutiny on the Bounty.
   Rating: 2 / 5