That’s more like it.
| Title: | Battle of Britain |
| Director: | Guy Hamilton |
| Score: | 4/6 |
| Chronology: | 1940. |
Category: At the Movies
#269: Age of Heroes [2011]
#268: Into the White [2012]
#267: The Battle of the River Plate [1956]
#266: John Rabe [2009]
#265: Hitler: The Rise of Evil [2003]
I’ve decided to watch a bunch of WW2 movies in order of … dramatic chronology? Is that a good term? Anyway, I’ve seen several movies about the pre-war Hitler before. This is, I think, better than most, even if Carlyle-Hitler looks like a rodent.
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| Separated at birth? |
| Title: | Hitler: The Rise of Evil |
| Director: | Christian Duguay |
| Score: | 4/6 |
| Bonus: | Even Peter Stormare delivers. |
#264: The Achievers: The Story of the Lebowski Fans [2009]
#263: Battleship [2012]
#262: True Grit [1969]
I was going to do another make/remake fiasco, but I’ve already seen the remake! Frustratingly, the remake was very good. Now we’ll never know if it’s just that I saw it first, or if it really is the first example of a remake that doesn’t suck. On the other hand, if it were just the viewing order, then this original should suck.
| Title: | True Grit |
| Director: | Henry Hathaway |
| Score: | 5/6 |
| Best voice: | The duke. |
#261: Sharknado [2013]
You’d think it would be horrible, but I say it’s better than any big-budget monster movie Hollywood’s produced for twenty years.
Plot-wise it’s super stupid, of course, but that goes for pretty much all monster movies. I think maybe the low budget cheese has a certain disarming effect on the stoops. Maybe a big budget is exactly what monster movies don’t need?
If Jurassic Park only had a budget of two million dollars, they probably wouldn’t be able to afford Goldblum.
| Title: | Sharknado |
| Director: | Anthony C. Ferrante |
| Score: | 5/8 |
| Verdict: | Safe to watch, but maybe bring some distractions. |