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Light and fluffy, filled with manufactured moments of humor, drama, and even romance, this unispired ensemble generates enough mediocrity to be a real crowd pleaser. This is a war movie you can take your granny to see without fear of her being offended or having a Depends moment. Clooney's direction provides all the gravitas of 'Kelley's Heroes' or 'The Longest Day' without gunfire or subtitles. It seems everyone pretty much showed up and said there lines and it's also a good thing this Blanchett performance is on the 2014 side of the Oscars.
Judging from the near packed matinee I would say most everyone in America is going to see the usual suspects turn in their usual performances and be happy about it in the end. This is one of those films where the trailer literally outshines the finished product.
Suck it up and take granny for her monthly outting.
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when it was held back for a 2014 opening instead of awards season opening. Again, you take one for the team.
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"I'd like to own a squadron of tanks"
...called it an old-fashioned WWII movie - the kind prior to Private Ryan.
Looks like it will be great on DVD.
Hiya Mike… In case you haven't already seen it… I picked up the bluray of Monuments Men at Redbox yesterday. I agree that it's not an Oscar kind of film, but I thought it was entertaining. I was previewing it for viewing with others here who will appreciate that it was not a big blood and guts war film.
I knew only bits and pieces about the history of the Nazi art heists and I'm not relying on this flick for accurate history of course. However there were some interesting details I was glad to learn. For one thing, one of the main art pieces they were chasing was one I'd stood in front of in Brugge Belgium years ago, Michelangelo's Madonna and Child. There was another favorite piece that got saved - DaVinci's Lady with the ermine. I ran across that one in Krakow and it was a stunner in person. I wasn't expecting a DaVinci there, and just wandered into the museum on a whim.
I'd say rent it but forego thinking of it as any great flick. No sense thinking of it as historically accurate, either, although it seems to have gotten the basics more or less ok, after you allow for the Hollywood drama etc, like romance.
buck fifty I was happy to spend.
The online reviews have not been kind not that they are always right. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. More than likely will netfix it later in the year.
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