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Post by Popeye Doyle on Jun 27, 2018 14:32:38 GMT
Though not as successful as The Guns of Navarone, it's undeniably entertaining and rolls through it's nearly 160 minute runtime with nary a dull spot. Aided largely by lovely location photography, performances from Eastwood and Burton. It also treats WWII as such a comic book, it makes Inglourious Basterds look like a Ken Burns documentary. The last hour or so jumps from one action piece to the next with great ease. Just look at that fucking poster -
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Jun 27, 2018 15:13:12 GMT
Good movie. Highly watchable but not in my list of favorite WWII movies.
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Post by bravomailer on Jun 27, 2018 15:16:12 GMT
I've never made it through the film.
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Post by drystyx on Jun 27, 2018 17:32:26 GMT
Poorly disguised neo Nazi propaganda movie. Hypocritical in the way it claims to be against Nazis, but the only two women alive at the end are the two pale blond women. This is obviously not made for guys. Contrived in every way for their Nazi agenda.
Movie sucks. No entertainment value. Just depressing crap that no guy can relate to. 1/10
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Jun 27, 2018 17:35:11 GMT
Poorly disguised neo Nazi propaganda movie. Hypocritical in the way it claims to be against Nazis, but the only two women alive at the end are the two pale blond women. This is obviously not made for guys. Contrived in every way for their Nazi agenda. Movie sucks. No entertainment value. Just depressing crap that no guy can relate to. 1/10 I value your comments. That's gold, Jerry! gold!
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Jun 27, 2018 18:00:09 GMT
I liked it, and it's one of the few cases where I read the book before seeing the movie.
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Post by mikef6 on Jun 27, 2018 18:59:38 GMT
In the TCM intro to WED, Ben Mankiewicz said that Richard Burton had asked his agent for a traditional WWII war movie because his kids had been seeing him in a lot of Shakespeare. Well, that’s not what I heard. Word on the street was that the movies he had been making since 1964 had been too racy for his kids to see. Anyhow, in many ways he didn’t get what he wanted with “Where Eagles Dare” which only pays homage to “tradition” on the surface. The movie is very forward leaning in its danger every minute, cliffhanger (sometimes literally) movement toward today’s mile-a-minute action movies. The violence is also sometimes disturbing in its body count and in Clint Eastwood’s performance as a blank-faced, almost sociopathic, killer. If I had kids anymore, I would almost want them to see the racy stuff, instead. The whole plot of the behind-the-enemy-lines mission is complicated to the point of being preposterous, not that it hurts the movie any.
What we have here is a big, sloppy mess of hanging-by-a-fingernail thrills, spy double and triple (and maybe quadruple) crosses, and gunfire and explosive action that is almost irresistibly entertaining. What’s not to like?
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Jun 27, 2018 19:01:31 GMT
What street would that be?
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Jun 27, 2018 21:04:18 GMT
“Where Eagles Dare” which only pays homage to “tradition” on the surface. The British officer in charge is also a spy. It was pretty much ubiquitous towards the end of the 60s that the Allied high command be shown as corrupt or incompetent and there be some failure theme to the story.
I.e. Play Dirty. By contrast, in 1940 Hollywood was falling over itself to make pro-war movies.
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Post by mikef6 on Jun 27, 2018 21:10:10 GMT
What street would that be? The Mean Street.
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Post by politicidal on Jun 27, 2018 22:04:17 GMT
Is it really THAT long? I never realized that watching it.
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Jun 27, 2018 23:19:14 GMT
Is it really THAT long? I never realized that watching it. Listed at 155 minutes.
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Post by Sulla on Jun 28, 2018 0:07:49 GMT
I always found it a fun movie to watch. I like it better than Guns of Navarone. There are certain parts I always look for, like when they drive the bus onto the airfield and ram a a row of German planes as they go, the cable-car fight, and towards the end when Burton explains how the Germans were duped by skillful British intelligence. The last time I watched I noticed when Major von Hapen was being persistent in hitting on Mary. It felt very much like Inglourious Basterds when Fredrick Zoller kept pestering Shosanna.
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Post by movielover on Jun 28, 2018 0:40:50 GMT
I'm glad I watched it before clicking on this thread. Multiple spoilers here.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2018 1:39:05 GMT
Poorly disguised neo Nazi propaganda movie. Hypocritical in the way it claims to be against Nazis, but the only two women alive at the end are the two pale blond women. This is obviously not made for guys. Contrived in every way for their Nazi agenda. Movie sucks. No entertainment value. Just depressing crap that no guy can relate to. 1/10 Please stop. Just stop.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2018 1:40:01 GMT
Good film, and the book was good too.
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Post by alpha128 on Jun 28, 2018 2:22:12 GMT
I love it and own it on DVD.
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Post by marth on Jun 28, 2018 19:11:57 GMT
I love it.
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