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Love Story
1970
Romance, Drama
1h 40m
Harvard Law student/hockey jock (Oliver Barrett IV) meets Radcliffe music wonk (Jennifer Cavalleri), and the couple soon enter into a relationship (imdb)
Directed by:
Arthur HillerScreenwriter:
Erich SegalLove Story
1970
Romance, Drama
1h 40m
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Rated 06 Aug 2010
55
17th
[SPOILERS] Bleurgh. I'm a sappy, romance loving kinda fella but God! I could not stand this. I hated the characters, I cared not a bit for either Ryan O'Neal or Ali MacGraw, which actually, is the only thing I found particuarly wrong with this, oh, the dialogue...yeah. The music and the scenery were great though, make the characters likeable if you're going to kill one of them off, beauty just won't cut it, sheesh. Oh, and; 'Love means never having to say you're sorry.' No, no it doesn't.
Rated 06 Aug 2010
Rated 23 Oct 2010
10
0th
When I sat down to watch this, I expected the overly saccharine story of two perfect people in love. But, to the movie's credit, none of these elements ever appear. Instead, it has two whiny and unlikable protagonists woodenly act out the most unconvincing love story ever written. Can it even be a "love story" if these two barely seem to like each other? It certainly didn't feel like one. I did, however, get the cliche, void-of-emotional-impact ending that I was expecting, so there is that.
Rated 23 Oct 2010
Rated 25 Aug 2015
42
30th
You need more than a soundtrack for making a movie.
Rated 25 Aug 2015
Rated 06 Feb 2022
70
76th
Rewatch. Love Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry. Love Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry!? Love Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry... The music is memorable, the scenery does a lot of heavy lifting, and Ryan O'Neal is so expressive in this you forget he turns out to be an asshole. Ali MacGraw does have the worst lines and hair. I wish they didn't gloss over so many milestones and didn't show any real reconciliation. Fav scene: long shot of him and her walking in the snow.
Rated 06 Feb 2022
Rated 18 Mar 2013
50
27th
I guess what big an impact this movie makes depends a lot on the moment you watch it. For me, it was obviously too late since I feel like I've already watched dozens of variations of the same plot. Rich guy falls in love with unusual girl, obstacles, obstacles, love, love, huge and "unexpected" twist, drama. I mean, there's nothing really special about it - not even visually. And why should you care about what happens to the characters when there's hardly anything about them you could like?
Rated 18 Mar 2013
Rated 10 Jul 2010
64
35th
I liked this movie a lot more before I actually sat down to watch it.
Rated 10 Jul 2010
Rated 19 May 2010
77
51st
It's incredibly tempting to pick this apart, with its multitude of cliches, trite message and glossing over of pretty much everything of significance in the lives of these characters. Despite all that, I have to admit I liked it and its emotional core makes up for all the other wrongs it commits. I still couldn't help rolling my eyes at lines like "love means never having to say you're sorry," though.
Rated 19 May 2010
Rated 22 Dec 2007
30
10th
The script is terrible, awfully, completely terrible. Hiller tries to transcend the material and, while occasionally his camera movements are graceful, it usually comes off as desperate.
Rated 22 Dec 2007
Rated 10 Aug 2021
50
20th
A decent premise poorly told, good music that's overused, terrible dialogue, weirdly forced profanity, and generally unlikeable characters. I did not believe the characters were in love; the chemistry wasn't there. Ali MacGraw in particular is just not a good actress and fails to make me care. Similar stories have since been told in much better films.
Rated 10 Aug 2021
Rated 17 Feb 2018
40
7th
With a tag line that is set up to literally ruin any marriage if attempted, Love Story is a poorly written slog of a romance. Jennifer is a take on the manic-pixie-dream-girl, but whose quirky trait is just saying "preppy" and "bullshit" over and over. The laughable dialogue is problematic, but the fact that there is no real conflict other than a throwaway death dooms the film to becoming boring.
Rated 17 Feb 2018
Rated 18 Apr 2016
69
71st
Decent story that skims over most of the depths and drama that are a normal part of a relationship. Everything is glossed over and most of the movie is just a bunch of barely strung together montages. The theme is the best part but is over used. The leads were...okay. I enjoyed it more than I normally would've because I watched it with my wife.
Rated 18 Apr 2016
Rated 07 Apr 2014
25
17th
The title is fairly perfect -- it's reminiscent of something like Scary Movie, and it might as well be a parody, too. Hiller does his best to bring the material above the din, but the script is just awful, and the two leads being completely unconvincing (or just flat-out terrible in O'Neal's case) certainly doesn't help. The score is well done, at least?
Rated 07 Apr 2014
Rated 30 Jan 2013
60
17th
The progenitor of the modern chick-flick, and boy does it show. All of the cheap tricks are here, the sappy soundtrack, the cutesy but empty dialogue, the contrived tragedy, everything you hate about modern chick flicks can be found in this one damn film. The only thing keeping this out of the red is Hiller's direction, which manages to breathe at least a hint of life into this maudlin mess. If love means never having to say you're sorry I sincerely hope the folks behind this hate me.
Rated 30 Jan 2013
Rated 15 Jun 2022
70
54th
they'regreat+doesntlastlonglolbutgood+docmakeshimhideshedyingforabit+finallybacktodadfordocmoney+lovemeansneverhavingtosayyou'resorrycallbackshesaid/tohisdad
Rated 15 Jun 2022
Rated 04 Apr 2021
70
75th
Altın Kürelerde bütün ödülleri alıp da, Oscar'da müzik haricinde sıfır çeken film. Bizimkisi 1 aşk hikayesi gibi başlayan film, Ryan O'Neill ve Ali MacGraw'ın performansıyla izlettiriyor. Aralarında bağ çok gerçekçi. Öykü o kadar iyi ki, filmin kusurlarını da kabul ediyoruz. Gülen 1 kırmızı koltuk gördüm. Filmin sonunda, Aşk asla özür dilememektir. O zaman Aşk için ölmeli Aşk o zaman Aşk.
Rated 04 Apr 2021
Rated 30 Jan 2021
62
24th
The romance between O'Neal and MacGraw is okay. The most I liked how the tedious father-son relationship is more to fault to the sons own hotheadedness than the perceived fathers stubbornness. Who can be seen as an old-fashioned man trying to reach out to his son in his own way. No wonder they used the best actor for that small part to convey all this. Unfortunately the movie infuses some unnecessary tragic drama into the last act by making one of the leads terminally ill.
Rated 30 Jan 2021
Rated 08 Nov 2018
35
12th
Unwatchable. MacGraw is bad in this. Lazy trite writing. A lazy story overall. Cliche story about two people who don't belong together at all but we get to watch them be a bad couple who probably kept a lot of bad couples together and unhappy for years after this was released. It must have been infinitely easier to make people get teary-eyed in 1970 than it is now because the ending was terrible
Rated 08 Nov 2018
Rated 06 May 2018
64
27th
"Necrophilia means never having to say you're sorry." Instantly iconic weeper is a tepid, unmemorable affair 50 years later; this particular sort of story requires an extra energy in the supporting elements to distinguish itself. Unfortunately, neither MacGraw or (especially) O'Neal are really up to the challenge, leaving the primary appeal to Hiller's creative and interesting direction, and a pair of nice supporting performances from Marley and Milland as the respective fathers.
Rated 06 May 2018
Rated 26 Feb 2018
41
19th
It was alright when things were actually happening, but I got pretty bored in the long empty patches. I have no idea what the father's final scene was supposed to mean.
Rated 26 Feb 2018
Rated 13 Feb 2015
62
17th
It's got this weird sort of false cynicism. Like it hopes that by making the leads snarky and sarcastic it means that the story isn't just one giant cliche after another. And then there's the brick drop of a third act. Nice camerawork though, good editing, great use of the Cambridge setting. Shit script.
Rated 13 Feb 2015
Rated 18 Jun 2013
1
20th
Nauseating dialogue and sickly soundtrack, too much.
Rated 18 Jun 2013
Rated 20 Nov 2011
70
19th
You just kind of have to accept the dialogue and whatever else irks you and just have fun with it. Take it as an artifact of 1970 - As that alone I found it pretty interesting.
Rated 20 Nov 2011
Rated 14 Oct 2010
64
56th
I liked that this film did not even try to be anything else than what the title was promising. Both actors were fine and I liked the dialogue most of time. John Marley was brilliant as Ali's father.
Rated 14 Oct 2010
Rated 10 Sep 2009
64
32nd
After all these years it is still a nice movie to watch.
Rated 10 Sep 2009
Rated 11 May 2009
2
13th
The screenplay is pathetic. I didn't buy their "love" for a second and a lot of the dialogue is a joke. I won't lie and say it's not at least slightly moving, but I'm a bit on the sappy side anyways.
Rated 11 May 2009
Rated 09 Apr 2009
60
12th
boy u can have a cheese fondue made wid de wholesome amount of cheesy crappy unneeded emotionally exhausting moments in here..grunt grunt grunt!
Rated 09 Apr 2009
Rated 30 Mar 2009
89
74th
Many people hate this movie but I like it very much....I've affected by the first and last secene
Rated 30 Mar 2009
Rated 28 Sep 2007
30
6th
Boy, if she said preppie one more time I swore I was going to reach right in there and smack her one. O'Neal and MacGraw alternate with moments of non-actor immortality. And then she dies very tidily indeed. The book was a lot better (although it had its problems too).
Rated 28 Sep 2007
Rated 21 Aug 2007
55
51st
A good cheesy campy romance, excellent for the ladies.
Rated 21 Aug 2007
Rated 19 Aug 2007
70
39th
Ali McGraw is sassy.
Rated 19 Aug 2007
Rated 14 Aug 2007
50
35th
Not my cup of tea.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
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