Ponderous Personal Projects

I made sheep-in-cabbage.

Title:	Defiance
Director:	Edward Zwick
Score:	4/6
Theatre:	Poland, 1941

That’s more like it.

Title:	Battle of Britain
Director:	Guy Hamilton
Score:	4/6
Chronology:	1940.

Zzzzz….

Title:	Age of Heroes
Director:	Adrian Vitoria
Score:	3/6
Event:	Operation Biting in France 1942, rewritten as Operation Grendel in Norway 1940.

Zzzzz….

Title:	Into the White
Director:	Petter Næss
Score:	2/6
Event:	Idiots in the mountains, Apr. 1940.

Zzzzz….

Title:	The Battle of the River Plate
Director:	Powell and Pressburger
Score:	3/6
Chronicle:	Uruguay, 1939.

I made brown cabbage and flesh.

Title:	John Rabe
Director:	Florian Gallenberger
Score:	4/6
Chronology:	The rape of Nanking, 1937.

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.

Separated at birth?

Title:	Hitler: The Rise of Evil
Director:	Christian Duguay
Score:	4/6
Bonus:	Even Peter Stormare delivers.

Docu time!

Title says it all.

Title:	The Achievers
Director:	Eddie Chung
Score:	4/6
White Russian:	Yes please!

Another surprise.  Certain stinker turns out to be pretty good dumb alien invasion scifi.

Title:	Battleship
Director:	Peter Berg
Score:	4/6
Alien:	Surely it’s the Master Chief?

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.