SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Greenes Please don't spend money on this.

PlatinumRead Just so...so bad

Iseerphia All that we are seeing on the screen is happening with real people, real action sequences in the background, forcing the eye to watch as if we were there.

adonis98-743-186503 A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies. 8½ will definitely please viewers that are fans of slow movies and black and white and general and believe me there's some terrific black and white movies alongside terrific films who are somewhere around 2 and 3 hours long it's just that this film ain't one of those films. I found myself not being invested to any of the characters, the dialogue was pretty bad and the acting not too far behind and overall it's not a film that really deserves to be on this list guys i'm sorry. (0/10)

Naught Moses For the time -- and probably still for those who haven't caught up to such as explained further along here -- 8 1/2 was a dandy treatise on Catechistic moral absolutism vs. trying to manage one's having been thus in-struct-ed, programmed, conditioned, socialized and normalized into codependent shame, guilt, worry, regret, remorse and morbid reflection with lots and lots and lots of romantic and sexual relationships, and then having to deal with all the moral repercussions. Guido is bemused and de-tached here and there, a-ttached and caught in the grind of shame and guilt here and there, and plain lost in the cultural F.O.G. of fear, obligation and guilt at other times. Fellini had read the classics, as well as the psychoanalysts, social constructionists and existentialists. And having the capacity to manifest what he learned in scenario, character and dialogue, he enlightens the rest of us.

leandro216 A movie with no story. A full immersion into the memories and the psychological face of the director. The great idea is that Fellini after the success of "La Dolce Vita" didn't know what to do. So he made a movie talking about a Director who has a lack of inspiration. After that we can appreciate the surreal scenes from the beginning to the end. This is one of my favourite movie, even if there isn't a specific reason. I dislike the character of Mastroianni, the typical snooty Italian intellectual, but the way Fellini, directs the dreams is so gorgeous. I think he is inspired of the Welles's way of moving the camera. Cinema of the Dream, from Bergam to Lynch, from Chaplin to Antonioni, this is one of the best example.

SnoopyStyle Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni) is a famed film director struggling with his next film. His high-maintenance wife Luisa (Anouk Aimée) comes to visit him at the quiet spa town. He is haunted by surreal dreams, memories, fantasies, and the many women of his life. Claudia (Claudia Cardinale) is his movie starlet. He flails to film a sci-fi movie building giant scaffoldings for a grand scene.This is a wondrously imaginative rambling mess. Fellini is indulging in some self-examinations. Marcello Mastroianni is sophistication personified. I've seen this a couple of times. As a plot, I want him to get the film made. It's frustrating to keep going on detours getting nowhere in the filming. As individual vignettes, they are great to be dissected. There are some terrific surrealism. Taken as a whole, it left me in awe, dizzy, confused and a little frustrated.