Ponderous Personal Projects

Wow, that was pretty bad.  But, somehow not offensively so.

Title:	Fortress
Director:	Michael Phillips
Score:	2/6
Chronology:	1943, Italy.

Saturday night, family movies, you know?

Title:	Olsen-banden tar gull
Director:	Knut Bohwim
Score:	4/6
Dad thinks:	They were better in the seventies.

See?  It can be done!

Title:	Indigènes
Director:	Rachid Bouchareb
Score:	6/6
Chronology:	1943-1945, France.

So boring the whole of Blogger crashed when I tried to tell the world.

Title:	Enigma
Director:	Michael Apted
Score:	2/6
Soundtrack:	Zzzzzz…

WW2 flick with Luke Skywalker and Lewis Skolnick.

Title:	The Big Red One
Director:	Samuel Fuller
Score:	4/6
Annoyage:	Horrible sound effects.

John Williams, you have been busted!

Title:	Ice Cold in Alex
Director:	J. Lee Thompson
Score:	3/6
Acting:	VERY SHOUTING!

Saturday night is family movie night.

Title:	Olsenbanden og Dynamitt-Harry
Director:	Ove Kant
Score:	6! No, I mean 2000!
Dad says:	bob-bob-bob.

Decent production values. Millions of extras. Weird acting.

Title:	Stalingrad
Director:	Joseph Vilsmaier
Score:	3/6
Chronology:	1942-1943.

I have no fingernails left!

Title:	U-571
Director:	Jon Mostow
Score:	5/6
Chronology:	1942, under the sea.

Two army dentists, not satisfied with their duties, go AWOL and single-handedly invade France.  Or rather double-handedly.  On second thought, make that quadruple-handedly.  On fourth thought, that would be the third thought.

Title:	Two Men Went to War
Director:	John Henderson
Score:	5/8
Chronology:	1942, France.