Ponderous Personal Projects

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.

I was going to see Burnt by the Sun 2, but I couldn’t bear it and had to turn it off after 25 minutes.  So I watched Godzilla instead.  The best thing I can say about that one, is that the last half hour wasn’t as annoying as the first three.

Title:	Godzilla
Director:	Gareth Edwards
Score:	1/6
Battle:	Uhm.. San Francisco 2014?

Good acting, some bloody great battle scenes.  What’s not to like?

Title:	Rukajärven tie
Director:	Olli Saarela
Score:	4/6
Battle:	The Continuation War, Karelia, 1941.

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.