Home Run? No, Just A Measly Single

Rating: 4/10 (6 November 2005)

As with the headline here, this was "home run" with audiences....but it was only a single to me. Maybe just a long fly out. I was greatly disappointing after all the hype that has been generated over the years for this movie.
I'm not saying it isn't good, and a true classic. It's just not my cup of tea, as the expression goes.
Why? Mainly because the main character, the famous "Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh). is an extremely annoying woman. She is a spoiled brat who usually gets her way, scheming for this and for that and marrying out of spite, etc. Who wants to watch and listen to this lady WHINE for four hours? Not me.
For me, the best parts of the movie were the cinematography and the segments in which Clark Gable tells off the spoiled brat. Gable is the one person who really gives this movie some spark, although Leigh certainly is effective in her role. Leslie Howard plays a nice guy and Olivia de Havilland is about as sweet as you could get.
In many respects, this is just one, long soap opera centered around O'Hara's selfishness and the men around her. To be fair, it's a powerful story but one I think is overrated, story-wise, unless you like melodramas.