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Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Cody One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Allissa .Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Vladimir Dilov I'm a great fan of James Dean and I really have very high expectations about every documentary/movie that is about his life.This movie really impressed me !The directing work was great, the plot, the cinematography and last but not least - James Franco. This guy truly amazed me, i've always liked him but in my opinion this is his best role.He made an absolutely outstanding performance.And as far as we know about the life and personality of James Dean , Franco portrayed his character very convincingly.If you've watched Dean films you'll know that he was a man with an incomparable charisma and Franco gave me the same feeling with his performance.The film is a absolute must-see if you are into James Dean life ,or biography movies at all.From my point of view , the movie is a real masterpiece and it deserves all the approval from both the critics and the audience.

Kirpianuscus a film about James Dean who represents a great job. or one of the most significant roles for James Franco. because the portrait of a strange legend of Hollywood is realistic, precise, touching and seductive. because, in few scenes, it becomes a trip in past. because it is one from many TV biographic movies but without the ordinaries ambitions and tricks. a film about a fight who defines self definition, it is one of films who not propose an idea but a support for understand a life who, in many occasions, represents only the ash of legend. James Dean by Franco is alive and vulnerable in the form who defines his characters in better manner. the seed of conflict between father and son is a good point for be one of solutions for an enigma. the sentimental life is represented in inspired manner. a beautiful film who use the physical resemblance as ingredient of a great story.

sandibiaso I really enjoyed James Franco's performance. He didn't need to lose that much weight to portray James Dean. I have seen the way James Franco looks now and he looks more like him today than he did when he portrayed him in 2001 or whenever they filmed the television movie.Aside from that, I felt that casting directors should have signed the talented gorgeous actress Alyssa Milano to portray the late beautiful actress and love of James Dean's life Anna Maria Pierangeli (better known by her stage name Pier Angeli)instead of the Italian actress who portrayed her. In 2000, Alyssa was starring in the WB television show Charmed - as she still is. During that time, Alyssa had the exact look of Pier Angeli. Alyssa would have just needed to wear hazel contacts because she has such naturally dark brown eyes. Maybe if producers want to film another television mini-series about the love affair of James Dean and Pier Angeli they should cast Justin Timberlake as James Dean and Alyssa Milano as Pier Angeli. This is only my suggestion.

Pepper Anne The James Dean movie might have been done much better had it been a feature film rather than one susceptible to the limitations of a made for TV movie. That is, where the filmmakers have to be wary of time and probably, content constraints. What we have as a final product, despite a nice performance by James Franco as the legendary James Dean, is little more than celebration of the man as a mythical pop culture icon. Even the more "authentic" emotional moments such as the rocky relationship between the young actor and his estranged father are so tightly bound in overt dramatizations rather than something more lifelike. Everything about James Dean, as portrayed here, seems less like insight into his background and his rise from a poor, Indiana teen to iconic actor who's life was cut short mid-success, and more like James Dean as a piece of staged dramas only adding more to creating a mythical creature and less to explaining a real person.Consider, for example, if you were a viewer who had known little about James Dean. Perhaps you had watched a few movies or, like Elvis, had always noticed him as the "understood" representation of juvenile disillusionment and delinquency (more the latter than the former, since our culture celebrates rebellion more so than simple dissatisfaction). But after having watched this film, what do you really learn about James Dean? I think the other dilemma of making a film about James Dean is that he was so young and still in the process of rising to fame when he died, that there doesn't seem to be many significant points of his life that can be stretched into an hour and a half film. Here, we do get a little, but not really much to play around with. Other than seeing bits about the girl at the studio he meets and becomes friendly with, the Italian actress he lives with for a while, befriending Martin Landau, and the relationship with his father, there really isn't much to go on. Not knowing much about James Dean, I don't know if there was much in his young life that could merit filling the time for a movie. It may be that those who were closest to him that could really give the trivia about his background have passed on. It seems that, if he was as distant as they claim him to be, maybe it was hard to get the story behind the man even by those who knew him in real life. But perhaps this is the reason why the subplot with his father seems so entirely forced.Unfortunately, there is a lot of style, but very little substance. And it may not have entirely been the fault of the filmmakers.