A Long and Dreary Movie That Fails In Almost Every Way

Rating: 3/10 (29 March 2006)

"After the Fall from Innocence the Legend begins"
My first review: "I liked it, it was OK, but I would never see it again." My second review: "You know, this wasn't that good of a movie, I need to lower my rating." My third review: "OMG, THIS WAS A GOD AWFUL FILM!"
Hard to imagine, but sadly true. This movie deprived me from the bottom up. It was depressing, it was bleak, hopeless, atrocious, sinister, dispiriting, distant, gloomy, and remorseful.
To brake it down, this was about stupid people doing stupid things. NO WAIT, scratch that! The main character Tristan (Pitt) was a stupid man who did stupid things and about a stupid woman named Susannah (Ormond) who did a VERY stupid thing.
They would call themselves lovers, they would call themselves soul mates, but they were wrong. What has Susannah got? Samuel , the youngest of the three bothers, and the man who loves Susannah. He brings her to his family to meet his two brothers, Tristan and Alfred and his father,Col. William Ludlow. She meets his brothers, one of them steps in too close. All three go off to war, the brother in love gets killed leaving his lover alone with his brothers. There somethings wrong going on between between Susannah and Tristan. Tristan is someone who I would like to call dishonest, back stabbing, disloyal, untrustworthy, disgusting, vile, wicked and cruel.
On going through the movie Susannah ends up marrying Alfred. Someone who deeply loves her and gives her the best she'll ever have. Despite them not having children, to me, she's living a wonderful life. Though despite all that, she still insists on emotionally falling for Tristan. After all that he's done to her. Use your head woman! Not your heart! Think! Think! Think! The heart is misguiding and only leads to bad things (suicide). Even after all Alfred has done for her, because she let her emotions drive her, she wasn't appreciative for his love.
That to me, is sick.
I could and can go on but I want the fans to think about that. In certain times does it come to use your heart, but your head is what has your common sense, use it well.
*/**** stars
Legends of the Fall (1994): Rated R for violence, some sexuality and language