SkynetV4
Mildly Dipped
One movie I managed to catch on MGM was The Wheels of Terror. It's even funnier than FMJ. *Runs away from R. Lee Ermy*
What is the best war film?
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ConstinpatedCraprunner said:
You mean the Criterion collection, including both Ivans and...uhm...Andrei or Alexander?
I saw that thing once in the only real import DVD-store we have in Rotterdam, the bloody thing was €105. Damn...
John Uskglass
Venerable Relic of the Wastes
It is fantastic. All the movies are great.
Alexander Nevsky is one of my favorite movies. It manages to get away with being oddly Disneyesque, with fantastic colors, poses and acting styles that have more in common with Snow White then Lawerence of Arabia, not to mention that it is quite interesting as a biased historical epic and some good acting.
Ivan the Terrible is best viewd as close as you can get to really mocking Stalin without him knowing. Dispite the fact that at times it seems to be another peice of proporganda, the latent homosexuality of the court (that some people view as just being campy) is often funny and satirical, some of the diolouge and Othello like insanity is telling. Dispite the campiness, it plays like something out of Shakespear Russofied. Great stuff.
Stalin was so pissed about the second he gave Eisenstien a personal history lesson. Eisenstien died a few weeks after it was finished.
Alexander Nevsky is one of my favorite movies. It manages to get away with being oddly Disneyesque, with fantastic colors, poses and acting styles that have more in common with Snow White then Lawerence of Arabia, not to mention that it is quite interesting as a biased historical epic and some good acting.
Ivan the Terrible is best viewd as close as you can get to really mocking Stalin without him knowing. Dispite the fact that at times it seems to be another peice of proporganda, the latent homosexuality of the court (that some people view as just being campy) is often funny and satirical, some of the diolouge and Othello like insanity is telling. Dispite the campiness, it plays like something out of Shakespear Russofied. Great stuff.
Stalin was so pissed about the second he gave Eisenstien a personal history lesson. Eisenstien died a few weeks after it was finished.