Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by brewthunda (A) on October 27, 2002 at 10:34:09

In Reply to: 'sum of all fears': a few reflections posted by njjohn on October 25, 2002 at 16:18:09:

Hart's War - The entire movie is all about building to some amazing climax.

Hart gets busted by the germans and is thrown in a POW camp - which as we well know from movies like Victory and the Great Escape means that there is going to be some tremendous climax with a lot of fun on the way that makes the whole movie worth it.

So we start building towards some kind of climax - building . building .. but we don't know what it is yet . . some sort of legal trial is involved . . but we don't know why this is so important . . building . . building . . the legal trial is looking more and more retarded and we begin to hope that this isn't the big surpise/climax that we've been waiting for . . building .. building. Ok, we have a few betrayals and something isn't quite what it seems, but there's none of the fun and no Steve McQueen to keep us entertained while we wait. Building . . building . . still don't know what the big freakin secret is and we start thinking about how we hate movies and tv shows that wait until the last 2 minutes to explain everybody's motivation for doing what they did .. because we're starting to hate every single character for acting like idiots. And then . . and then . . the the big secret/climax that we've been waiting for! And it's completely stupid. And they thought they'd be clever by waiting until the last 5 minutes to show us this stupid secret climax. I went back and replayed the last 5 minutes, hoping to hear some off-camera gunshots of a mass slaughter and/or suicide of all the characters that wasted my time. No luck.

Argh.

The first 10 minutes were pretty good though.

At least I also had DVDs of The Young Ones and the Traffik BBC miniseries. Both of which are great and make up for Hart's War.