What a bunch of shallow punchable characters.

This is a classic movie and it's one that everyone should see at least once. Now having said that, I must also admit that this is a hard movie to watch. This movie is heavy on the drama and while that is part of what it so popular, the drama can get old after a while (remember, the movie is almost 4 hours long!) There are amazing parts and it does a great job catching the ups and downs of life and the roles are very well played, but after the first two hours things can start to drag a bit. I like this movie and I even own it, but its just not a movie that you watch for fun or that you really watch very often.

Masterful for its time, and still timeless today.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE This movie, it's one of my all time favorites!

_**four hours**_ of drama is more than too much, and a lot of this movie is extremely dated (i.e. racist and revisionist). Also, some scnes meant to be funny ended up just being funny, like the [spoiler]stairs scene.[/spoiler]