Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Inferior to the 1968 production with Julie Christie

The 1998 production was on WETA on July 21, 1999. After one hour, I was bored and I stopped watching. I wondered how someone, who had not read the book by Thomas Hardy, could possibly understand the story. Nothing to compare with the 1968 production with Julie Christie and Peter Finch. The old movie was magnificent. The story unfolded clearly, easy to understand. I loved it so much that the first thing I did was to buy the book by Thomas Hardy. In the new movie, the story does not flow clearly but keeps jumping all over the place which makes it difficult to follow and understand. The 1998 production is boring and the actors unattractive. Nothing can surpass Julie Christie's beauty and Peter Finch's aristocracy. I rate the 1968 production 5 stars and the new production 1 star.