I am not one for old movies, and I found this on VHS in my house and never knew it was even here. So I popped it in and didn't actually think I would watch it. I had a million things to do, and thought it would just be playing in the background. Then I found myself drawn to it. Elizabeth Taylor was very pretty and the couple seemed so happy. I'm thinking, what a nice little movie to be over 50 years old. What a strange twist, almost like Vanilla Sky, that suddenly, all goes wrong, or at least it seemed sudden. I mean, life is well and good, and he gets a hair up his bum because he can't get published ? He's rich, he has a beautiful wife who loves him, he has a beautiful daughter, his Father-in-law likes him, his brother-in-law likes him, OK his Sister-in-law doesn't like him but that's only because she secretly loves him ... what more can a guy ask for? My goodness and isn't Roger Moore a goon in this movie. Eva Gabor? Well, I can only think of her as Mrs. Oliver Wendell Douglas for some reason. Anyway, He had it made and then he acts like a fool. I can't believe he locked the door. I can't believe Elizabeth Taylor's character DIES! I was in shock! What a cruddy way for this movie to go. OK so it was based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's life someone said ... who cares? This could have been a great film if it had been written about the reconciliation of the husband and wife and how they went back to America together and just visited Paris occasionally. I can't believe he turned down her request to go back to America when she was alive and then when she DIES, he decides to go back to America. What the hell was all that about. Had he simply agreed to go back to America in the first place and stopped being such a dork, she would have lived. What an incredible tragedy! The cover of the VHS looked so cheerful! I thought it was going to be something like "It's A Wonderful Life!", after all, it did have Donna Reed in it. God, I really loved and hated this movie!
Review of The Last Time I Saw Paris
