Long, Bad, and With Few Redeeming Qualities

Rating: 3/10 (13 August 2012)

Gone With the Wind is a racist, ridiculously long Southern "classic" that is two hours too long, and deserves a place in the IMDb Bottom 100, not the top 250. It begins with an unnecessary first half that involves Scarlett, our rich, spoiled, manipulative, and obsessive "heroine", fawning over boys, especially the spacey and idiotic Ashley. Then, the horrible and evil Northerners come and ravage the homestead of Scarlett, much to her dismay. The next half, after a long, boring intermission, has Rhett, a rich, "fine southern gentlemen", falling in love with her, only to be rejected by Scarlett, who is too busy trying to seduce Ashley in the room outside of the one where his wife, a girl whose character was so "goody-goody" that I couldn't even remember her name, was dying. Then, Scarlett has a change of heart, marries Rhett, they have a baby, baby dies, (in shockingly bizarre and random scene),a hilarious "rape scene", Scarlett actually starts to love Rhett, Rhett leaves, and Scarlett ends the horrific film with one of the worst lines in history: "For tomorrow is a new day!" A four hour long soap opera. Really.