Overrated, melodramatic

Rating: 5/10 (17 February 2020)

My girlfriend wanted me to see this movie for a while now. Well, after checking it out a few days ago I have to say I have mixed feelings about it.
Without going into spoilers the film lost its seriousness right in the first 30 minutes (with the war scenes and stuff). It is dumb and overly dramatic. The context is extremely bare-bones and badly presented - similarly to Ad Astra. Some of the scenes are actually laughable, like the death scenes which I would call downright ridiculous. Maybe 1/4 of the movie worked for me, everything else was more funny than not which includes writing and acting too. Perhaps LotF is not for me, even though I really liked Joe Black with some of the same cast. Perhaps the story is rushed which makes some of the character moments seem illogical, or I just cannot understand what drives these people to do what they are doing. Perhaps this is a movie about stupid people and how good Brad Pitt looks and that he can get everything while still being a jerk. I don't know.
What is actually good in Legends of the Fall though is the music, which while not going to be one of my favourites definitely adds a lot to the movie. As I see it also got an Oscar for cinematography. That came as a surprise to me. Maybe the bad writing took me out too much to see the artistry here...