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Anthropoid -> RE: pilots (6/2/2009 9:51:25 PM)
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Oh come on you curmudgeons; you tellin' me you found ZERO value in the computer-generated attack scenes? Those were pretty dramatic, and ain't no past flicks gonna compare on that basis. The battle scenes and special effects in Tora! Tora! Tora!, and Midway and any other 'better' movie about the era, quite frankly _suck_ by modern standards. Not only that, but characters and acting, and plots in most of the older movies of the war in the Pacific are also _highly_ cheesy, although I admit that this one took the Big Cheese award . . .
I will agree with you that a serious story, without so many extreme acts of 'artistic license,' the unrealistic concentration of heroism in the few main characters, the overuse of standard war-movie cliches, the excessive Rah! Rah! pro-America-rhetoric, etc., would have improved it tremendously. Indeed, its shortcomings in these areas make it an overall low-rater in my books. But if you skip these points of technical/political inaccuracy, and only focus on: (a) the cutesy inter-character dynamics (yes, even including the romances) which, if cheesy are no less unbelievable than any other cutesy inter-character dynamics in any other movie ever made about Americans during WWII; (b) the CGI battle stuff; and (c) hottie nurse, as well as just plain old (d) imagery of people, places and machines of the era provided with a high-budget modern cinematographic view--for what it is worth, then its not _so_ terrible, now is it? In effect, if you were to cut out the 75% of the movie that was bad, and focus on the 25% that was 'good,' couldn't you at least acknowledge that it had some merits? [:)]
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