Tockinit not horrible nor great

Noutions Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

Inadvands Boring, over-political, tech fuzed mess

Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

jovana-13676 I don't care what this movie is about - I just want to watch the Big Sur beaches, that bouquet in Elizabeth Taylor's beach house and Burton and Taylor exchanging silly lines that seem like out of the Women's Studies textbooks. They say everything that adulterers long to hear when they want to feel better about themselves. Elizabeth looks silly in her hippie clothes, but I like the pastel colors. Charles Bronson is miscast as one of Taylor's bohemian friends. And he can't sculpt. Eva Marie Saint plays Burton's elegant wife whom he dumps when the goddess of nature appears one day in his office wearing a violet blouse without a bra and we can just enjoy the two most vulgar and most talented actors of their generation being scandalous on beautiful locations for the rest of the film.

ags123 Though the plot of "The Sandpiper" is thin and obvious, the film has enough virtues to make watching it time well spent. Mainly, the chance to wallow in Elizabeth Taylor's beauty, here just about as undone and natural as she ever allowed; Hair blowing in the gentle breeze wafting off the magnificent Big Sur coastline. Richard Burton looks pretty good too, the couple still oozing the magnetism that brought the stars together in the first place. Eva Marie Saint gives expert support in the thankless role of a neglected wife. The scenery is fantastic, the music ('The Shadow of Your Smile") nothing short of sublime, and last but not least, are Herb Rosenthal's gorgeous calligraphic titles.

contrerassherry Liz Taylor plays a pre-hippie who lives in a "shack" (prime real estate in real life) by the sea. She paints already-finished works of art. The sandpiper is an injured bird whose wing she helps to heal, although the sandpiper is an obvious metaphor for for the free-spirited Liz.She hangs around in designer clothes with her hair perfectly coiffed, which makes it hard to take seriously her role as free-spirited nonconformist. At one point she shows up at her son's school in a fashionable yellow dress and large white hat. After seeing the interior of her "shack", I couldn't help wondering where she keeps all those clothes. Blue jeans and T-shirts (braless) would have been more realistic as attire for her beach-bum life style. Oh well.Richard Burton cannot resist her allure despite his religious convictions and his marriage to Eva Marie Saint.They fall in love, all the while spouting soliloquies about life, love, the existence or non-existence of God, etc. In one scene, where they are on the beach, Liz is espousing philosophy and the wind keeps whipping her hair into her face and I couldn't help but wonder why they didn't pin in back for that scene. In another scene, as Liz is pontificating again, the sandpiper perches on her head! (How did they get it to do that? ha ha ) Liz is made out to be the wiser of the two, Richard Burton being tied down to such terrible things as responsibility and fidelity.Despite being madly in love in real life, I couldn't see a lot of chemistry between them.I watched this because I read the book "Furious Love" - a really good book by the way. The movies they made together are documented in it so I was motivated to watch their films. So now I have seen this one and it's on the "Taming of the Shrew."

rchick3 This is a gorgeous movie. Yes, it is a sort of soap opera but many facets of it are brilliant. The cinematography and score are excellent but the real star is Richard Burton. That Welsh accent penetrates every scene like a hot poker through plastic. It is like a flat sea with sharks in it. Burton sounds very much like Dylan Thomas; note the pronunciation of the word "boy". Like Thomas, he pronounces the word as if there was an "a" right under the "o" that is more felt than heard.Taylor seems to be following him everywhere he leads, in opposition to the roles played, as Burton evokes a performance from her that is replayed in her future works.