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Captain Newman, M.D. (1963)
I really liked Captain Newman, M.D.
I enjoyed the movie very much. Of course I am one of those baby boomer's born after World War II. So I and my siblings would play war (those were the days when parents would remind their charges that movies were make believe). So being 12 years old at the time, "Captain Newman, M.D." was one of the few adult films that I as a kid that I enjoyed and understood. Even being that young I had for the most part enjoyed, Gregory Peck, Tony Curtis, Bobby Darin and Eddie Albert in their respective rolls. I felt for Eddie's character as a Colonel Norval Algate Bliss. Having sent his people out to death, it was a memory his character could not live with. To me, he played the character well, not just acting, but because he had "been there, done that" and so he had seen his share of death during World War II at Tarawa. I would recommend this movie to anyone who enjoys acting at its best.
The Village (2004)
It was a bust
The opening was way too long, then the main plot was plodding, pedantic and predictable (as in "The Sixth Sense" predictable) far too slow. A third of the movie could have been edited out and it still would have made sense. Over all it had poor logical follow through.
If one stops to think about it what they did to their children, they would have been in prison for.
Such as letting ones child (in the opening) die from something that was preventable, the parent would have been prosecuted for.
We have an "Ends justifies the means" theme going on.
Letting the character "Noah", were proper medication could have helped with his Autism (you may well ask how do I know, I have a cousin, that is Autistic and she exhibits the same symptoms wavy hands, hers is controlled through drugs). Again the parents would have been prosecuted.
Sending a blind girl to do the work, instead of one of the elders that knows what is going on and could have done safer and come into contact with the creatures and survived.
1897, they had telephones, why not have one in the village just for the purpose of emergencies?
The other part is; One day ignorance comes enlightenment, one of the offspring would be sure to find out and then become highly ticked over having the wool pulled over their eyes.
I could go on and on about the holes in the plot. I am just glad that I did not have to pay to view the movie. Do not get me wrong when a movie is good, I will state so.