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We Were Soldiers (2002)
simply lousy
Yup, another Vietnam movie. This time it is a story of one battle with thousands of casualties. Nearly everyone is shown so there is a lot of pain and suffering to go with your pizza. Frankly this is a remake of the infamous THE GREEN BERET with all the repulsive patriotism and religious fervor. It seems that the Americans never learn. Maybe they should go back and finish the job.If this is meant to be a Vietnam movie for the younger generation, there is not even one clue about why the Americans were fighting. And did they won? Read your history lesson. What was Gibson thinking in signing his name into this? He must have been collecting money for his private island. Waste of time.
Nixon (1995)
Wonderful film inside
Everyone can be a president in the USA, but not everyone is qualified to do the job. Stone´s Nixon is a portrait of a man who fought the presidency for himself to please his mother. It´s a painful and honest story. But it is not a masterpiece. First, Stone makes the same error as so many Nixon´s biographists: the man is seen largely from the point of Watergate.And the editing is so mish-mashed that it is difficult especially for the younger wievers to follow through. Even black-and-white flashes don´t work, as they did in JFK. Try and start watching it from the 1960 election and omit all the flashbacks. You see a completely different and better film and it even enhances Anthony Hopkins´ fine interpretation of the leading man.
Facade (1999)
Elevator movie
Yes, yes...a fantastic film in in its corniness. Bad acting, bad direction, bad sound, bad music... Everything in this sounds, feels and smells cheap...You know, if they played movies in elevators instead of music, this might be THE essential elevator movie.