Just saw Concussion with Will Smith. It was much better than the reviews I read. I'm glad I ignored the reviews.
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I am sure the director and producers of this World War II film had good intentions when they set out to make this but this is one of the worse and incoherent World War II movie I'd ever seen.
Characters appears and disappears or appear later in the film in a different state with no explanation whatsoever how they got there.
The editing and pacing and structuring of the story is terrible.
Also I question some of the historical accuracy of it. The same U.S. Army squad in this film goes from Sicily to Italy to France to the Battle of the Ardennes in Belgium and then to Germany near the Rhine. I am not so sure about that.
The version I watched was about 150 min.
The original version when it was first released at the theaters in limited screens was 175 min.
I hear there is an even longer version that has since been lost.
I found this .PDF outlining some of the stuff that was edited out but even after reading that, it still seem there is more to it that has gone missing from it.
It has a great cast including George Peppard, George Hamilton, Vince Edwards, Albert Finney, Eli Wallach, Elke Sommer, Romy Schneider, Jeanne Moreau, Melina Mercouri and Peter Fonda - who was nominated for a Golden Globe award in 1964 for 'Most Promising Newcomer - Male' for his role in this film. YET for the life of me I couldn't find his character in the version I watched.
It's a shame! This could had been a great World War II film but still, I have no choice to give it:
Also I question some of the historical accuracy of it. The same U.S. Army squad in this film goes from Sicily to Italy to France to the Battle of the Ardennes in Belgium and then to Germany near the Rhine. I am not so sure about that.
That did indeed happen during the war but it was not typical. There were several US infantry divisions that saw action in all of those different theatres that you mentioned so it was possible for some squads to remain intact assuming that they didn't have any casualties.
I do concede though that it is a popular story-telliing device for Hollywood films since it keeps all of the characters together throughout the story.
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“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
Carpenter's "The Thing" is exactly how you remake a film. Utter perfection.
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
Heh, a very young Harrison Ford was in that film. He was 25 at the time.
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
Those don't look like any German World War II Panther or Tiger or Panzer tanks I'd ever seen.
No CGI at the time obviously and it was very expensive to build your own replicas from scratch so hence they used T34's for this film.
This was standard practice for pretty much every WWII movie from the 50's through the 70's.
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“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
Those don't look like any German World War II Panther or Tiger or Panzer tanks I'd ever seen.
No CGI at the time obviously and it was very expensive to build your own replicas from scratch so hence they used T34's for this film.
This was standard practice for pretty much every WWII movie from the 50's through the 70's.
On a related CGI note, just sat down to watch Red Tails, it has been sitting on the DVR for more than a year, while the story it's self is fine, the flying scenes...
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On a related CGI note, just sat down to watch Red Tails, it has been sitting on the DVR for more than a year, while the story it's self is fine, the flying scenes...
Yeah, the flying scenes literally looked like they came from a console video game. I watched about 45 minutes of the film before I gave up on it.
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“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
Grabbers (2012). Liked it a lot- I go crazy for Richard Coyle (it all started by watching Coupling- of course the great British original version, not the sloppy US one. Sorry) and that movie has the right amount of funny-nonsensical-scary parts.
One particular thing was hysterical... Plus- an Aliens quote.
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