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This is a discussion for the third movie:

i like them all equally...i know the third didn't stay with the other two, but it was still good...the only part i didn't like a whole lot was the war. Its a sad part of life and no one should have to go through. I hope i don't offend anyone, its just my opinion. I don't think anyone should loose their life over it. And i'm worried that my brother will try to get in the army like he said, and i'll be a nervous wreck every single day.

Rilla? I seriously need to read the books....lol

I personally really like this movie, of course of the three it is my least favorite but still its really well done.

yes it is based on rilla but they bring it back around to Anne and Gilberts life at the beginning of the fifth book when they move to Glen St Mary. the problem is they change anne so much.

but i think she is the way she is in this movie because of the war content. i think had she been the encouragable anne we've known it wouldn't have fit in with the sorrow and the tragedy that the first world war was. historically it is accurate and there is a lot that you don't see that Anne needs to protray in her actions because of her 'experience' at the front. not to mention how down cast would you be if first you saw your best friend collaps in tears because her husband goes off to war, then your soon to be husband says 'marry me and let me go' and then people you've known all your life were dying or missing in action. i know how i feel having lost a friend in this resent war in afganistan. i think Megan Follows did an amazing job of being the Anne that never gives up and yet she is the changed anne, the anne that has seen the horrors of war and who just missed her husband. to have been so close that she saw him and then he was gone. not to mention to see fred in such a state.

i really think this movie was well done. if you take into consideration that the time period they were protraying in the first two movie were late victorian leading into the war but the books go further back to the height of Victorian era and it isn't until Anne and Gilberts last daughter is 15 in the books that the war begins. they lead into it well i think and the idea that only five years had passed since Anne and Gilbert were engaged when in reality nearly 15 years had passed for the actors... Anne of green gables was filmed in 1985 (Megan Follows was 16 ) and then Anne of green gables the sequel in 1987 (Megan at 18 ) and then this one was filmed in 2000 (Megan at 31 ). so techincally 13 years later... Megan and Johnathan looked Damn good for portraying their 21-25 year old selves when they were actually like in their 30s or so. Megan had been married, had two kids and divorced between Anne of green gables the sequel and Anne the continuing story which kinda has to put the whole change into her charater into perspective, not to mention Megan didn't want to do another Anne movie (much like Maud Montgomery not wanting to write another Anne book after green gables and nearly being forced into seven more by her publisher).

So after that rant i just had, what i am really trying to say is that for the tone of the movie and the period that they were protraying it is a really good representation and it drives me crazy that this movie gets so much flack for it. it is really well done. i've seen it a tone of times and i still cry all the time. its got to be good if it tugs at the heart strings that much.

I'll be the strange one and say that this is my favorite of the three movies and the one I watch most. I adore it. I remember when I first found out about it. The TV guide in the Washington Post had a big spread on it, and it was on the front cover (I still have the article).

I loved the difference in her character, and how well Follows portrayed Anne, should Anne have been in the midst of such action. As another poster said, it's all because Sullivan set the movies later than he should have, which caused the breakoff... and he does a good job of portraying what a small community such as Avonlea would go through in a time of war...even Josie is humble at one point.

And who could forget Dominique? I remember watching it the first time and wondering how that little baby always managed to survive. The qualities from the books are there...just shown in a different manner.

the more i watch this movie, the more i love it. though i admit there are parts i skip because of content but i do really like it as a whole. i think the characters were portrayed amazingly for the subject matter. i mean... i'm not as old as they were when they filmed this movie but i do feel it sometimes. rolls reversed i guess. there was just something in Megan and Jonathan that made it so real. the pain and the sorror and the happiness. the scene when they fine each other is one of my favorite too. it just seemed perfect and fitting and yet so sad. it was kinda the sigh of relief for the movie and yet you knew there was more.