I'm surprised at the number of top ratings this move has scored here.
It was the ratings that drew me in but both my partner and I gave up at the halfway mark before we became diabetic. Every improbable cliche and schmaltzy scenario in the book. From the actions of the 'farming' family who acted like they wouldn't have enough sense to tend a backyard garden to the frightfully decent army officers. And the lack of sense from the family probably goes for the entire village that turns up in pouring rain to watch the brainiac son ploughing the rocks in a field. Would have thought that clearing the surface rockery would have been a good start, not to mention maybe spending more than the families entire fortune on a horse more suitable for the job. Germans with English accents and seemingly mainly bloodless battle scenes sunk the credibility. Though maybe Spielberg had his eye on a young Disney audience. Disappointing.
It was the ratings that drew me in but both my partner and I gave up at the halfway mark before we became diabetic. Every improbable cliche and schmaltzy scenario in the book. From the actions of the 'farming' family who acted like they wouldn't have enough sense to tend a backyard garden to the frightfully decent army officers. And the lack of sense from the family probably goes for the entire village that turns up in pouring rain to watch the brainiac son ploughing the rocks in a field. Would have thought that clearing the surface rockery would have been a good start, not to mention maybe spending more than the families entire fortune on a horse more suitable for the job. Germans with English accents and seemingly mainly bloodless battle scenes sunk the credibility. Though maybe Spielberg had his eye on a young Disney audience. Disappointing.
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