Endless Love (1981)

Fantastic!

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

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

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

I never saw 'Endless Love' when it came out, and not when it came to video, and then to DVD, and then to streaming. Now it is offered by amazon Prime so I can see it on amazon instant video. In the years since this movie came out, it probably aged badly. Sex in movies got raunchier. Now, watching this movie, the erotic scenes seem sweet in comparison. And, after all, this is Brooke Shields naked with one of the best-looking naked men on the planet - Martin Hewitt. He looks like a younger and fresher and more perfect Mark Ruffalo. All I can think when I watch him watch a woman is: male hormones! I enjoyed watching this movie for the first time, being older, having all that distance from today and the time the movie was made (1981). I feel like the hippie parents were very similar to parents of my high school acquaintance. Most of all, I remember how young love is different from older love - not better, not worse, just different. The movie showed this. The acting is far from 'wooden.' All of these actors have gone on to other (sometimes better) things. What a treat to be able to see they so young, fresh, and skilled in these roles.

This movie is ridiculous. I did not relate to the characters for one minute. I know how strong love can feel when you're young, but when a guy sets your house on fire, you're really still going to love him? And want to be with him? Also, that sentimental nonsense (showing how much they love each other) took way too long. I mean, really? 15 years old and you have sex in your parents' living room? (Maybe it's just that I'm too emancipated, but...) Don't have sex before age 17, kids! And NEVER in your parents' living room! And when you do, do it safe! Don't fall for this romantic crap. Almost half of the movie. At some point I just wanted to fast forward it. I did not "feel the love", which was probably partly to blame on the script and partly on the actors. Terrible movie.

Endless Love (1981) ** (out of 4)Insane love story about teenage lovers, the 15-year-old Jade (Brooke Shields) and the 17-year-old David (Martin Hewitt), who are forced apart by her father and soon the boys obsession turns to tragedy. I really, really, really wanted to like ENDLESS LOVE. In fact, this was at least my third viewing of wanting to love this movie but it's hopeless because sadly the movie is just a complete mess from start to finish. I've heard that the novel is something truly terrific but all of that has been lost in this feature that is so heavy-handed and at times so crazy that you can't help but wonder if director Franco Zeffirelli was wanting to create something bad. I'm really not sure where to start but I guess we can begin with the story, which just never makes any sense. The movie has one dumb sequence after another and it contains some of the dumbest and most unexplained characters that you're ever going to meet. So, daddy gives pot, alcohol and throws wild parties on school nights yet he flips out when he discovers that his daughter is in love? Her mother catches them having sex in front of the fireplace and decides to just sit there and watch? David decides to have a complete mental breakdown after accidentally burning his loved ones house down yet he doesn't seem to know what the big deal is. Then there's the ending, which I won't ruin or should I say the at least three endings that really don't close anything up. Oh yeah, and lets not forget the sex scenes, which are so incredibly laughable that you wonder what the director was thinking.ENDLESS LOVE should have been a good movie as the story of pain, losing the one you love and redemption are things that make for an interesting story. Everything here is just handled so poorly that you can't help but laugh at just about every scene. The movie never makes any real sense. It never explains why these two are so strongly connected. It never explains anything. As a fan of bad movies I can't help but have a certain fondness for this movie because it reaches of level of insanity to where it becomes so bad that it's good. The film contains weirdness unlike any other movie and the entire thing is just so heavy in regards to the "love" of these two people that it really kills the movie even more. Both Shields and Hewitt have a lot of problems with their performance as they never really pull them off or make them believable. Shirley Knight is good as the mother, Don Murray is over-the-top as the father and we even get James Spader and Tom Cruise in brief parts.The one scene that works is when the title song is first played and we see the two fall in love. This sequence is about the only thing that comes off as good and of course you've got the Lionel Richie and Diana Ross song to close things out. ENDLESS LOVE is a film that desperately needs to be remade.

There was so much potential squandered by this film, it's a crime. Although I haven't read the book, I understand that considerable liberties were taken with the film; regardless, it is an illogical mess. How many mothers would admiringly watch their own high school aged daughters having sex in the living room, then pursue the teenage boyfriend?! How many idiots would think destroying their girlfriend's house via arson would be the way to win them over?!!!I am a HUGE fan of '80s movies and enjoy the distinctive look of films from this time. And I defy anyone to find a more beautiful creature than Brooke Shields in the '80s. But these are the only real bright spots, and can only overcome so much. The big appeal of this film to me is the idea of what it would have been like to have Brooke as your girlfriend back in high school (I'm not the only one!!), but unfortunately, you've got to endure her imbecile boyfriend who not only sets fire to her family home, but indirectly causes her father's death. By the midpoint of the movie, I was hoping SOMEONE would knock his lights out and that Brooke would leave him far, far behind. I'm sure any real family would feel the same way.Although I was a Brooke fan in the '80s and had seen Blue Lagoon, I never got around to seeing Endless Love for some reason. Nostalgia inspired me just last year to watch it for the first time. The only thing about this that has aged well is Brooke's timeless beauty and the beautiful theme song. The strength of these two things makes it worth watching, at least once....