This is about as you’d expect… right down to the ultra-earnest warble of the lead character. Mostly, the movie sticks to the good-hearted, aw-shucks kind of themes… but now and then, it does veer into the real ugliness of war. Of course, you can guess the ending before you even sit down to watch it. So, is it good? Worth watching? you probably already know what this movie is like, so if you like that kind of thing… you’ll like it. If you think it’s going to be too sappy for your tastes, you’re probably right too.
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Anonymous
Wow. Not only was this a great story, it was written & filmed well… and delivered in a wrapper that actually made some sense. Count me among those who believe we don’t know the whole truth about who Shakespeare was. Was this the true story? Part of it? Possibly… Surely, I don’t believe all the details of this particular drama, but I think the premise holds a lot of merit. We hardly know the truth about events that have happened in our lifetime, and we’re supposed to believe that we know the truth about Shakespeare?
I was shocked to realize this was done by none other than Roland Emmerich. Huh? Now I don’t know what to think of him. Maybe someone else created the “Worst movie ever” (aka – Independence Day), and Roland Emmerich is a fraud?
Seven Years in Tibet
I thought this movie was a lot better than the “word on the street” made it out to be. I actually liked Brad Pitt in it. I couldn’t believe people were upset that he was a nazi… like the movie somehow forgave the nazis or something. You know, a lot of nazis were really bad people, but most of them were just caught up in the whole thing. BP’s character wasn’t even a real supporter of the nazis either, he just wanted to go climb mountains. If you’re upset about that whole angle, then I guess you hated Das Boot too.