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chickenfeet) wrote2007-06-19 08:10 am
chickenfeet) wrote2007-06-19 08:10 am
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1776 - 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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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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