Movies on War

Coppola must have sold his soul to the devil for this.

not all who fought in WWII against the nazis had the praise they deserved, while and after. this movie shows that quite well, in a very cold way, how "indigènes", men that came from France ex-colonies, were treaten while fighting and dying for a country that wasn't really theirs.

a cold blood tale about Edmund, a 12 year old kid who's obligated to sustain his own family in a post WWII Berlim. a dying father, an ex-nazi soldier brother, and a sister, who spends her nights as a escort company for the americans in exchange for cigarettes to sell.
its a very simple film, with no ornamentations, the scenery is a rubbled city, with no architecture, no life, where everyone is fighting for their survival. hence, there's an expulsion of everything that could comfort us, made on purpose by Rossellini, symbolizing the despair the german families had to put up, in this destroyed Berlim.

Black Book is Carice van Houten. i give this film half more star because of her brilliance, and because hmm she's smokin' hot... overall the film was good, a bit pretentious,though. it tends to get a bit unreal with all the twists and life-saving coincidences, more like after the half, but still very enjoyable until the end.

call it overrated, call it pretentious, call it whatever you may want to, but what is remarkable is that i could stand the whole 3h30 length of the film, through out the night, without blinking the eyes... a classic alright.

what a superb film. it lasts almost 3 hours but thats hardly noticeable. and Steve McQueen is the man!

one of the best depictions of the war on 'Nam, for sure. the trippy vision of stoned Stone is highly recognizable in every shot.

brilliant in every single way...

My thoughts drift back to erect nipple wet dreams about Mary Jane Rottencrotch and the Great Homecoming Fuck Fantasy. I am so happy that I am alive, in one piece and short. I'm in a world of shit... yes. But I am alive. And I am not afraid.

this was like the sillyest hour and a half of my entire life. i mean, c'mon, an ex-nazi working for the USA government? and a rocket cowboy? geez... what was Kubrick thinking?

brilliant.

i felt a bit disapointed with this film, not that it was bad, it wasn't, but in the end it left me an impression that something was missing. and the last part was a bit... mmm... cheesy, perhaps.
i have to point out though, that Bale keeps scoring with the excellent performances, one the best actors of this new generation.

Tarantino pays another hommage to cinema. This time not only by abusing of the pastiche, so common in his films, but also by giving cinema an ironic proeminence in the fall of the Nazi regime. Chris Waltz gives, what I think, the best performance of the film. The film itself is fun, above everything, but hardly Tarantino's best, for those who believed so, even himself. Its quite good but, please, lets not exagerate.

A splendid anti-war classic. Its one of the best depictions of war I've ever put my eyes on. Milestone achieved to produce some trully magnificent camera shots quite ahead of their time, specially while filming the battleground.