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Les_the_Sarge_9_1 -> (7/22/2003 9:42:00 AM)
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I think it can be said, film makers are artists in every sense of the word.
You can't just grab some famous actors, and a normally good setting, and expect a classic to just fall in your lap.
But sometimes it really IS the actor(s) in a film that make the difference.
I thought The Green Berets was good, but without John Wayne in it, I suppose I could care less for it.
I have seen a few Vietnam epics that were good, but they are few. I guess that conflict just doesn't "do it" for me.
84 Charlie MoPic was good. Almost never hear it mentioned in comments though.
Good Morning Vietnam was great I think. But I have seen people slag it. It's the only film though, that has ever made me "feel" the insanity of modern war.
I like Patton, but again George C Scott made that film come alive. The dumb tanks were no big deal.
I have seen cheesy early films with bad choices for tanks that didn't cut it, but you can't just drive tanks around, and call it a war movie.
They were lucky in Cross of Iron. T-34s are not so hard to find.
But the director was bang on with how it was made. He made a gritty movie, and he picked the right actors.
Soooo many films come out, and they can have great actors in them, but the moment they start with the big ball of fire explosions, the movie is written out of my "great war movies" lists.
I will forgive em for not being able to find actual WW2 tanks, but bad special effects are grossly inexcusable.
Some films are classics simply because they are. Kelly's heroes was knee deep in first rate actors. The plot was neat, and it was well done. Having a wild west shoot out between three men vs a Tiger is of course idiotic, but it didn't hurt the film.
And they actually had the Shermans, and put out the effort to fake the Tigers.
Whether it was made way back, or yesterday, there is basically no excuse for a shabby movie. But some directors are also shabby artists.
I think Windtalkers was a horrible movie, simply because it took a plot that might have been a fine tribute, and they dropped the ball and made it just more hollywood garbage.
If they can make Saving Private Ryan great, then why could they not have done as good a job on Pearl Harbour? Clearly some directors have talent, and some clearly do not.
People I would hope, would expect an epic subject, to be an epic film.
I was sure hoping Pearl Harbour would be like Tora Tora Tora but with all the power of modern film technology.
We were scammed. It was just some jerks idea of a war romance with a battle scene that might as well have been toned done to avoid unnecessary expense.
I would never attempt to make a war movie a "war movie" if half of the film was to be a romance setting.
Romance films are ok, but they should either be a romance or a war movie.
They tried for both, and it was a wasted effort.
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