Redwarmin This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

Spoonatects Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

Inmechon The movie's only flaw is also a virtue: It's jammed with characters, stories, warmth and laughs.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Emil Bakkum The film Love story has become legendary as a romance. And it is, in a way. It describes those early moments when two young people stimulate each other, and enjoy each others company. Experts call this phase the attraction, or more romantic: the love tent. However, on a closer examination the harmony is really quite superficial. In fact there are even many unpleasant clashes. So Love story could qualify as a satire, and a criticism of the traditional family. Any way, that is the perspective that I prefer. At the start of the narrative Oliver and Jennifer are both promising students. They fall in love. It is the most glorious three days of their lives. However, the nagging starts already after two dates: "I want to know your name" (joking). But although Jenny is a veritable teaser, she soon subjugates to Oliver. When she plans to complete her study in Paris, Oliver proposes to marry her, and she quickly abandons her plan. Marriage is a wonderful invention, but then again, so is a bicycle puncture repair kit. Moreover, since Oliver can not get a scholarship, she agrees to take a job below her level in order to pay his study! Soon Oliver is more interested in his text-books than in her. The relation fades. There is a fine line between cuddling and holding someone down so she can not get away. There are many scenes with ill-tempered conversations. Let me cite just one: when Oliver gets his degree after concluding his law study, with excellent marks, a sum of money is attached to it. He says to Jenny: "Your maternity reward". On the way home he discusses the names of their future children. But some time later, when he goes in for sports with a colleague, he states that Jenny herself refuses to continue her study, and prefers to get children instead. Oliver takes Jenny everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back (joking). Unfortunately Jenny is fatally ill (spoiler!). On her dying bed she complains that she has forgotten much of her college education. She finally seems to realize the tragedy that her professional career has been stifled. Surrender comes at a price. The painful reality is that back then this fate was fairly common among female students. They were predestined to become housewives, and readily conformed to these (often) dull lives. This is how I see Love story: like a melodrama, full of sarcasm. And a wake-up call. "I do" can be the longest sentence. Do not forget to like this review.

Mr Black Finally, finally got around to seeing this and what a let down! I usually find most movies fairly agreeable but how this got nominated for academy awards is beyond me! Right from the start, the character of Jenny was so obnoxious, I can't see how any guy would be attracted to her. She put him down, insulted him and was flat out rude. Normally the guy would just leave. Second, I can see why Ali MacGraw's career tanked after this. Most over acted film I've ever seen. After the first few scenes I thought she would get it under control, but no, she had that horrible performance all the way through. Ryan Oneil was just as bad. Over acting and sappy. The scene with the doctor was most annoying. What kind of Doctor tells him flat out "she's dying" then suggests 'treatment'?? Also, his response was ludicrous. No question about what can be done to help her. Sorry folks, but wow, I thought this was bad. One major directing failure was almost the entire movie was just the two of them including the sickening sweet montages of them frolicking in the snow - which went on wayyyyy to long. Big thumbs down for me. However, I think the script has potential for a modern remake with some re-writing, better acting, and please no 'zoom ins' and 'zoom outs' like this movie. That style of film making was used briefly when the first invented the zoom lens, but quickly died it because it is too cheesy. Sorry for the negative review but I really thought this was an awful film.

Lucrecia123 A silly, trivial film, "Love Story" cons too many of its viewers with its schlocky sentimentality and its idealization of the East Coast power elite. Still, it presents an interesting view of social attitudes prevalent in a 1970's Ivy League setting. "Love Story" tries to make an egalitarian nod towards an unlikely romance between a WASP scion and a poor but gifted Italian-American woman. At the same time, the film constantly glamorizes and glorifies the northeastern top-out-of-sight Anglo-American culture associated with Harvard. The beautiful cinematography evident throughout the film pays homage to Harvard and to east coast chic.Spoiler Alert:Oliver Barrett IV (Ryan O'Neal) rebels against his anally retentive and classist father (Ray Milland) by marrying Jennie Cavalieri (Ali MacGraw), a working-class Italian-Catholic woman from Cranston, Rhode Island. Quel horreur! While Jennie pretends to disdain preppies, her obvious fascination with their social power is evident in her emulation of their clothing styles and her preference for WASPy men. She even claims (somewhat ironically) to "love" the number after Oliver's name. During her meeting with his nauseatingly pretentious parents the usually blunt Jennie is charmingly demure, and nearly as smooth as Sydney Poitier in "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner." This is a romance motivated not so much by true love, as by mutual fascination with the Other from a different side of the tracks.Jennie's class crossover from proletarian Cranston to Preppieland may have been a major source of the film's romantic appeal, especially since the myth of "movin' on up" is cherished to an extreme in America.By my lights, Jennie Cavalieri makes a horrible mistake when she gives up a fellowship to study music in Paris with the acclaimed Nadia Boulanger. Instead, she falls for the oldest myth in the book by marrying Oliver Barrett, the quintessential bland corporate type from the "right" background. In the real world, unions between working-class types and preppies rarely work due to the snobbish attitudes of the latter. It is wiser for talented people from more modest backgrounds to gain entry into the upper classes through intellectual and artistic abilities that will give them staying power, rather than through marriage alone. Had Jennie gone to Paris to fulfill her dream of becoming a concert pianist, she not only could have realized her creative potential, but she also could have eventually married a man from a more culturally sophisticated and less class obsessed background than Oliver Barrett IV. This better spouse for Jennie would also have been more appreciative of her musical gifts.The ridiculous line, "love means you never have to say you're sorry" is the dictum of a spoiled and entitled richie who uses others for pleasure and profit. When Oliver throws this line at "Papa" after Jennie's death, this relieves the eminent Mr. Barrett of any responsibility for his vile snobbery. Oliver is welcomed back into the fold only after Jennie no longer exists as a threat to the Barrett family's WASPocracy.Fortunately in the post millennial world, a rich WASP man would not be viewed as the ultimate prize for a woman like Jennie Cavlalieri, since the current bourgeois bohemian culture in America would encourage her to seek other choices. Who knows? Perhaps Jennie's immune system had an aversion to Oliver's preppy sperm -- and this caused her fatal illness.

PrometheusTree64 I'm in the middle on this. I can't deny LOVE STORY is pretty bad. Ali's bad, the script is mediocre. Blah-blah-blah, it's all true.But the era is the key to its appeal and perhaps it helps if one was alive (and remembers) at that time.The snow scene essentially saves the film --- largely because it evokes the lost, bittersweet, melancholy mood at the cusp of the '60s and '70s (much as the urban street montage sequences in MIDNIGHT COWBOY or the first season opening theme of THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW did and do).The world actually felt that way at that moment in time. Otherwise, yeah, it's kinda crap.