Why so much hype?

Truly Dreadful Film

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

The acting in this movie is really good.

This film should be banned, as the maker might as well have butchered heathcliff, with a set of knives in a slasher film. The casting is dreadful, the chemistry between the leads is non existent, and the result is a dull drab ugly drama. The story is so bastardised, that any resemblance of a romantic tragedy is destroyed, by the viewers increasing hatred of heathcliff as the film unwinds. The 1939 film is a classic romantic tragedy, offering sympathy for all the characters in varied ways, but this blames it all on the wretched heathcliff, and the extended version cut from the book, prolongs the agony for lovers of oliver and oberon's masterpiece. I would love to hang the maker of this depressing garbage.

Emily Bronte's only novel, Wuthering Heights, was declared difficult and scandalous by the few critics who read it. And shortly after it was published, she died at age thirty, in 1848. If she only knew how her novel would live on in the hearts of so many readers; she was far ahead of her time when it came to fiction dealing with human emotion and passion. It is one of my favourite novels of all time, probably what inspired me to become a novelist myself.So I was a bit sceptical about how this film version would work for me. The Olivier / Oberon version from 1939 was a mess. The story was almost unrecognizable. But this version is very faithful to Bronte's novel. Cathy and Heathcliff come to us in all their wild, pagan glory here. I highly recommend it.

The film is awesome, watched numerous times and never tire of it, the setting and scenery are second to none, Ralph Fiennes, is the best Heathcliff ever, superb This film is by far the best adaption, I cant and wont watch any other version.I've lived in North Yorkshire, and visited Haworth and the Bronte Museum, where the props from the film are kept, there life and times are very realistic to this film, magnificent moors and scenery as in the film.I must also add that the cast of this film are well suited to their parts, and were outstanding in the roles they played. If your a fan of Wuthering heights or interested in the Brontes, this film is a must see, then follow it up by going to Haworth in North Yorkshire, you wont be disappointed, and right down to the film and atmosphere its all there.

The original 1939 classic movie of Wuthering Heights, with Olivier and Oberon, is excellent for its time. However, this version only depicts the basic plot.This story centers on Heathcliff and is about deep love between Heathcliff and Cathy, love lost, Heathcliff's bitter and deep anger over this, Heathcliff's blame for the love loss on the Cathy as well as on class exclusion, and revenge toward all those involved in the lost love. An essential element is for the movie to depict Heathcliff's bitterness and immense vengeful anger. Now in order for the immense anger to be explained, the prior deep love between Heathcliff and Cathy must be fully depicted. I think the 1992 and 2009 movie versions are the best. Both are excellent but both are flawed.The 1992 version with Ralph Fiennes is better organized and time-sequenced. This version emphasizes the bitterness, anger and vengefulness of the main character, Heathcliff, as superbly depicted by Fiennes. The flaw is that the early love between Cathy and Heathcliff is shown in a skimpy and summary manner. This is a flaw since this deep love needs a full and detailed portrayal in order to explain Heathcliff's later deep bitterness. As a result Fiennes' Heathcliff is a terrible fellow whose behavior is somewhat inexcusable. The 2009 version with Tom Hardy is slightly convoluted, and lightens Heathcliff's vengefulness (making Heathcliff more of sympathetic character to the viewer), which is a flaw compared to the 1992 Fiennes version that properly displays Heathcliff's revenge. However, the 2009 Hardy version does portray the early love between Heathcliff and Cathy with due elaboration (which is lacking in the 1992 version). As a result Heathcliff is more of a tragic figure than a villain.An ideal version would be the 1992 Fiennes version, with the deep vengeful anger as Fiennes displayed, but that also fully depicted the love as did the 2009 Hardy version.Both the Hardy 2009 version and the Fiennes 1992 version are excellent but I prefer the 1992 version as the best available.