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21 Brothers (2011)
utter rubbish
this movie is so poor ... The version I watched had even had the title changed(from "21 Brothers" to "1914") which actually made things worse...it gave me the impression that the movie was actually set in 1914, well, would YOU suppose that a movie entitled "1914" is actually set in 1916...........? Foolishly assuming that the title meant the year the film was actually set in, found me criticising the fact that the troops were wearing helmets, which weren't in use until 1916, also being critical of the fact that they were Canadian, and of course in 1914 the Canadians were not on the Western Front, then add in the ludicrously inaccurate representation of the trench, which at most must have been 18 inches deep, which might possibly have prevented the men manning that sector from being shot in the ankles, but would have provided no other protection at all, especially since the sides of the "trench" had no supports, revetting or strengthening whatsoever, and would have collapsed with the first artillery hit, or even after the first heavy rain......... there's no signs of any kind of communication, support or supply trenches, in fact the "troops" are basically overweight actors in a shallow ditch in a meadow in summer, and anything less like bitter, desperate frightened men in a frontline trench in the midst of the bloodiest land war in history would be difficult to imagine.......let's ignore the mediocre acting for a moment, the over-excessive use of the f--- word which was quite inappropriate and not really representative of the time, when the Sergeant happily sat down with his lieutenant for a drink and chatted with him using his first name I lost patience and gave up watching such dross.........I cannot imagine any instance of a senior NCO in the British army in any year of the Great war taking such liberties in the presence of even a junior officer..... my friend who has also seen this movie actually expressed all you need to know about it in one sentence........."this is'nt the worst war movie I'd ever seen, but it IS in the top one............."
Starship Troopers (1997)
Space garbage!
this is utter rubbish, a dreadful carve-up of one of the great SF novels of the past sixty years. Verhoeven clearly never read the book, and utterly misses its point and its message. The wonderfully imagined Power suits Heinlein envisaged are absent from the movie, as is the book's point that the average M.I. "cap trooper" is a highly skilled, efficient intelligent and superbly trained elite soldier, not the dumb grunt portrayed by the "baywatch" types in the movie. I am baffled by the number of reviewers who call this film "brilliant" etc etc, it's tripe, full of pretty boys and girls playing war and being killed in graphic and gory fashion, when they aren't playing some dopey "football" game, posing naked in the showers together or joyriding round the solar system in half-million ton interstellar assault ships that apparently have the handling qualities of jet skis.......... there's no satire or hidden message in this movie. it's just an abysmal adaptation of a superb book, that has taken the title and some of the character names from the book and ditched almost everything else. The military tactics shown in the film are laughable, or would be if they weren't accompanied by the excessive gore and splatter effects, I mean, soldiers armed with automatic rifles crossing millions of miles of space to invade another planet without artillery, armoured vehicles(or indeed, vehicles of ANY kind) no air support,no apparent medical back-up and not even carrying any supplies or extra ammunition..........
And as for the tactic of running into battle blasting away with their rifles and then a few seconds later running away back to the ships.........it was a good job these tactics and these blokes(and glamorous girls too!!) weren't involved in the D-Day landings in 1944, that's all I can say....... to anyone who has read the book I'd say DON'T watch this movies, in fact to most people I'd say, don't watch this movie.......it's rubbish.
Company K (2004)
Could have been a great movie
I have no doubt the book is one of the greats about the first world war, sadly this film doesn't do it justice. The episodic nature of the movie, while faithful to the style of the book, really doesn't work that well, preventing us from getting to really know the characters. The episodes we see tend to leave things unexplained, or leave us feeling we'd like to see or know more about what happened, and this results in the film being ultimately unsatisfying. The war itself, which was known by all protagonists as being fought in the most appallingly squalid, dirty, lice-ridden and horrific conditions, is shown here being fought in immaculately clean and neat trench systems that look like they have just been built in a B&Q depot, the corrugated iron sheets forming the trench sides are gleaming, pristine and new, the duck-boards and ground is neatly swept and tidy, and the men and their uniforms far too clean and smart to seem even remotely realistic. We are expected to believe that men are traumatised and mentally scarred for life by the conditions of war, and yet it all looks like it's set in a paintballing arena with no excess dirt or mud to be seen! It tries to be a good film, but somehow misses, and apart from the lead character, everyone else in the movie was just a cut-out character that you just couldn't feel anything for........ there really have been so many better movies on this subject that this one pales in comparison... sorry folks..
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Awful,
I give this film 1 out of 10 simply because I cant award 0 out of 10.. it is two and a half hours of trash, pointless, boring, full of excessive gratuitous violence of the worst kind, with cardboard cutouts for characters, a plot that is moronic, acting that is noticeable only by its absence, and lacking any redeeming features at all. The second world war was the most dreadful occurrence of the 20th century, and to reduce it to this rubbish comic book inanity is an insult to the 50 million lives it took. To read reviews describing it as hilarious and howlingly funny makes me despair, the war wasn't hilarious or howlingly funny, and this movie wasn't, either. Tarantino has plumbed new depths of tripe with this effort, and my biggest regret is that I was stupid enough to buy this on DVD as I missed it at the cinema... there went some money and three hours of my life i will never see again.....(sigh) to anyone who is thinking about seeing this, I offer the following advice.. don't bother, pull all your fingernails out with pliers instead.. it won't be as violent, it WILL be more enjoyable, and you won't regret it as much afterwards.......