Movie Reviews
Jun. 19th, 2007 08:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chickenfeet1776 - Director's Cut: What induced me to Zip this? I lasted about 10 minutes before rushing to the bathroom to vomit at the sheer awfulness of it.
The Thin Red Line: This dreck got nominated for best picture? I watched it through to the end in the hope that it might have some redeeming features but in all 160 minutes I didn't find any. It has every war movie cliché ever; careerist colonel, captain with a conscience, bluff sergeant, panicky kid, blah, blah. Lay on sentimentality with a very large trowel one has the sort of war movie that only Hollywood at its worst can produce. I think the director was trying to do what Kubrik did a thousand times better in Paths of Glory but he doesn't even get close.
The Thin Red Line: This dreck got nominated for best picture? I watched it through to the end in the hope that it might have some redeeming features but in all 160 minutes I didn't find any. It has every war movie cliché ever; careerist colonel, captain with a conscience, bluff sergeant, panicky kid, blah, blah. Lay on sentimentality with a very large trowel one has the sort of war movie that only Hollywood at its worst can produce. I think the director was trying to do what Kubrik did a thousand times better in Paths of Glory but he doesn't even get close.
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Date: 2007-06-19 03:50 pm (UTC)Er - me, probably. Sorry it didn't appeal to you! It's one of the few musicals I really like (along with Cabaret and, uh, that's about it). Maybe it's a Murkan thang. I find much to love about it.
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Date: 2007-06-19 04:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-06-19 10:34 pm (UTC)Heehee.
Oh well, not doing much better over here with my Dad watching old crappy Westerns on TV but, at least I have an excuse to wander off and read.
Miss you :(