Giant (1956)

Giant-the movie
An excellent replacement for our aging VHS. This one will be around for a while.

Disjointed narrative
Maybe you have to be from Texas or over 50 or something to enjoy this movie. It had some great characters to be sure, but the narrative was just a collection of unrelated events--an extremely LONG collection of unrelated events. Couple meets, gets married, sister in law dies, have kids, kids grow up. The only threads: an occasional fight would erupt with the jerk played by James Dean, and at the end it explodes. And Dad learns to tone down his racism a little bit, but not too much.

It's really a three star, but I'm taking off an extra for sheer length. Three hours a movie that's neither good nor bad.

Alex's review
I love this classical movie, but I'd wish it had closed captions so I can watch it without disturbing others.