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Im Westen nichts Neues (2022)
Not nearly as good as it thinks it is
AQONWF desperately wants to show us how awful war is, and it does so by overdoing anything from the makeup to the music. Unfortunately it also overdoes the characters, making them almost caricatures. Especially with the overdone makeup, the overdone mud, the overdone everything, it all ends up feeling like a theatrical play, where you are sitting way too close. There are no grey nuances. No Captain Miller, no Carparzo, and definitely no Corporal Upham.
The pacing feels very uneven, and some of the scenes are so unlikely they almost feel ridiculous. I dont mind them rewriting the book to maybe update some scenes for a more modern audience, but unfortunately several of the new scenes are just laughable. The movies also suffers from bad continuity and bad cross editing in several places.
There are a few highlights. The scene where he almost gets sniped is very good, and some of the quieter scenes also works fairly good. Unfortunately they dont lead us anywhere. I mean. Did anyone really care that the dudes son died?
Me neither.
Walter og Carlo - op på fars hat (1985)
Stupid beyond belief.
5.5 is a very generous score.
My theory is, that some of the voters must have been foreign people, and that some of the stupidity got lost in translation. Because let us be fair. This movie is stupid beyond belief.
It is hard to say who the audience is expected to be. The jokes are kindergarden level, but the movie still wrestles with getting drunk and women with big breasts. An example of the comedy goes something like this:
Inge, the romantic target of Walter is lying in a bathing suit in a deck chair by the pool. She is a fine looking woman. Walter approaches her with two drinks, but she doesn't acknowledge him, and runs off. He chases her, asking her several times if there is too much water in the drinks. How would she know? She just ran off without trying. She then jumps into the pool, and holding the drinks out, he falls in, apparently because he has a severe motor disability. They then swim around under water, and she surfaces, saying: "That is enough".
Enough water in the drink that is. I mean. isn't that hilarious?
The movie might be interesting as a monument over what went wrong in the 80's, but apart from that, it should be avoided at all costs, and if I ever come across people talking about this movie, I will pretend to be a mute and deaf russian.
The Hurt Locker (2008)
A very very very good movie.
This will easily qualify as one of the best war movies about Iraq. It is excellent. It is thrilling. It will keep you on the edge of your seat. Is it deep? Is it worth 9 Oscar nominations? In my opinion no.
The only character I felt was portrayed believable, was James. He is absorbed by the war, and he does something about it. Sanborn is a pro, but cracks in the last explosion. Why? We don't really know. Eldridge turns from being afraid of dying, into a dude with a combat face, into someone mad about surviving the war. Why? We don't really know. What we do know, is, that what drives James, is the adrenaline kick - spoken out loudly by Eldridge for those who didn't see the first hour of the movie.
James is also let down by the script. There is no way this guy has defused 873 bombs, with that attitude. He would have been blown to kingdom come at bomb 3. It is plain silly that he is that irresponsible. The ambush in the desert is a much much better way of displaying how he gets his his kick. However, the ambush leads us to another weak point in the movie. If the Americans are using some serious state of the art tripod sniper hardware, why is it, that they have to fire 3-4 times before they hit their first guy, when on the other hand, the Iraqi snipers can stick the head out a window, and with a hand-held weapon, kills 3 targets with 3 shots? We don't really know, do we?
Finally, the ending is stating the obvious. A 20 second scene in a mall - and with his son? I think most of us got the point by now, and simply showing him pulling on the bomb suit, and saying "day 365", would have been enough.
Still an excellent war movie.