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Reviews
Company of Heroes (2013)
Glaring Inaccuracies make the movie impossible to watch
From incorrect uniforms to incorrect weapons to incorrect armored vehicles to 4 engine bombers making a bombing run from what appeared to be about 300 feet this movie was constantly throwing so much comic book fiction stuff in your face it was impossible to follow the plot.
It also felt like a video game as a large squad of about 8 guys kill off hundreds of German troops. It was almost as bad as showing the little pac man life icons and then subtracting them in scene after scene as yet again the character implausibly survives to kill dozens more.
Too bad this movie could have been so much better just by someone paying attention.
Rating 3 stars
The Big Bang (2010)
Fairly decent color attempt of a 50's film noir
I'm not as eloquent as Mr Krachtman, but agree almost totally with his views.
I DID love the introduction grabbed you with the visuals, especially the ways the colors, movement, and time flow demanded your attention. I hit the rewind 3 times at the intro's end before I continued on.
I missed the earlier film this was ripped from, but will be sure to watch it. It became pretty obvious in the first 15 minutes that someone was running a scam, and it was relatively easy to figure it out about 10 minutes before the AHA! scene.
I am no puritan, but there are many releases of this type that would be the perfect movie to watch with my 82 year old Mum or my 23 year old daughter. Like every other Hollywood release in the last 3 years, there always has to be the 2 minute nasty freaky gratuitous sex scene. Yes I understand that younger adults, and middle aged adult like myself have absolutely no problem with watching this in cinema with our peer group. It's a real shame that so many fine films have that 2 minute nasty that precludes me from watching this with or recommending it to my adult children or more mature parents. I think we could get more in line with Bollywood.