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The classic Ernest Hemingway novel about man battling nature and the demons within himself is adapted admirably in this 1958 film starring the legendary Spencer Tracy. Playing the fisherman who goes o...( read more 
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MCT:September 4, 2008This movie is about as fun as going to McDonald's and watching the elderly folk congregate for morning coffee. This may be a classic, but that doesn't excuse it from being a SHITTY movie.
The acting (when there is acting) is GREAT. However for the other 90% of this movie you will be subjected to a narrator who sounds like he's bored out of his mind, reading to a group of retards. "Then the Old Man took his boat and... BLAH, BLAH, BLAH."
I sat painfully through it so that you wouldn't have to. SKIP IT! -
MCT:January 7, 2008its wanderFull One fro A worled storyes witch ernest hemenig way writed it He was great man I like hem
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MCT:December 10, 2007An all-inclusive Ernest-Hemingway/Spencer-Tracy one-man show. Quite atmospheric and impressive, but at times a little too pathetic.
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MCT:November 19, 2007Made in 1958, One of the best Movies you will ever see. Spencer Tracy is the Man. Its a Classic. A must see and a must add to the collection.
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MCT:November 11, 2007
By the time I read Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea in high school, I'd already read A Farewell to Arms and The Sun Also Rises. Good thing, too, because The Old Man and the Sea is Hemingway's tersest statement about what it means for a male to live a worthwhile life: live vigorously, test yourself, fight what threatens to destroy you (within and without), and emerged bloodied, but unbowed. If I hadn't been steeped in the author's themes already, I never would have gotten this message from his last, great, but very thin book. As it was, I still had to rely on Cliffs Notes to alert me to the mythic and Christ allusions.
This book would have been a daunting adaptation for any movie maker, since most of the important stuff going on is unseen and unspoken. It didn't help that the beefy Spencer Tracy was cast as a near-starving Cuban fisherman. His bulk and vigor contradicts Hemingway's desire to show the depth of character and spiritual strength that can lie within physical frailty. Tracy projects a certain amount of wisdom, but the problem is that he comes across as knowing he's wise, doling out gems from an his life vein of experiences. The power of Hemingway's fisherman was that he was unselfconsciously wise. The combined effect these two incongruities drove me the online Cliffs Notes, 16 years after the first time, to remind me of the mythic and Christ allusions again.
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MCT:December 30, 2006
The classic Ernest Hemingway novel about man battling nature starring the legendary Spencer Tracy. Playing the fisherman
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MCT:November 29, 2006Le livre, contre toute attente, était déjà assez long et plate.... une oeuvre littéraire... mouins...mettons, qu'avec un peu moins de pêche au gros poisson... oh mais, je me souviens, c'était juste de ça ! fiouf...
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MCT:November 23, 2006
Awww... crazy old bugger out in the sea alone. The story is so sad, but so deep, going beyond the old man just fishing. Featuring his rise and fall and rise and fall, eventually leading to the conclusion that he's one crazy old bugger.
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