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Mission to Moscow (1943)
You're ignorant
"A truly evil film, 22 August 2001 Author: Colin Alberts from northern Virginia
It's 1943, and Hollywood decides that a good 'educational' drama is needed to reassure an American public that is somewhat conflicted on being allied with Soviet Russia for the Second World War. Thus we are treated to this picture, one of the most scurrilously evil films that has ever had wide release. Yes, I said evil. No, there's no gratuitous sex or violence or bad language in the film. Just a wholesale haigiography of history's most prolific mass murderer, and the mendacious celebration of a regime whose primary accomplishment was to torture and/or murder tens of millions of people. Other reviewers have compared it as a propaganda piece akin to "Triumph of the Will" or "Battleship Potemkin", but this shameful film has none of Riefenstahl's artistic direction or Eisenstein's imagery. Just one monstrous lie after another served up to justify aggression, war-mongering, totalitarianism, secret police tactics, repression and every other evil of the 20th century. In a just world the makers of this film, if they were not duped into believing it themselves, should have been consigned to the Gulag that they glorified with this hateful piece."
You know so little
Blue Note - A Story of Modern Jazz (1997)
wonderful
i can't agree with the previous comments. this isn't a concert film it's a documentary of blue note records, its aims, its history and accomplishments, its genesis, its impact, the milieu, and even the nuts and bolts.
the idea that people would rather talk about music than play it is silly, are the two mutually exclusive? jazz is played on the radio on at least hundreds of stations at all hours of the day, every day, as well as live at clubs every night. yet there are only a handful of documentary films about it. is there really an annoying glut of jazz docs? does it really crowd out the actual music itself? of course people should listen to the music itself, but a film like this just adds rich context, behind the scenes history, & insight into the characters on the scene that you don't get from listening to the music alone. it can only add to ones appreciation. i thought it was beautiful
Playing God (1997)
stinkbomb of the lowest order
God, I'd love to run IQ tests on the people raving about the script and the acting in this movie! Guaranteed average IQ of 85 or below.
How could they fit so much B movie acting/dialog in... well, in any one single movie, but let alone such a big budget one? Incredible.
Duchovny manages to make Keanu Reaves look like Duvall, Olivier, Pacino, Hackman, Nicholson etc., at their peaks, all rolled into one compared to his performance! When you look up "piece of wood" in the dictionary of phrases you'll find Reaves picture has been replaced with Duchovny's
It's beyond believe that this movie is rated anything above a 2 on this board.
What on earth is wrong with you people?