Review: Flags Of Our Fathers
Apr. 5th, 2010 12:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seriousficMan, this movie's hard to watch. Not because of the Saving Private Ryan Lite violence, but because Ryan Phillipe stars in it and damn, it's basically a two-hour-long audition tape for Captain America. I mean, he's really good. He looks the part (chin!), he acts noble and idealistic yet modest and humble, he's looked up to and respected by his peers... I'm sure Chris Evans will do a fine job, but it's like hearing that someone other than Bridget Regan has been cast as Wonder Woman.
As for the movie itself, I was okay with it until the ending. You know how in biopics, they do the plinkly piano thing and then they talk about everything some musician did after he got over being so addicted to drugs? Well, here, it goes on thirty goddamn minutes or so. It's like Return of the King, the damn thing just keeps ending and ending and ending! Really, Eastwood, if this stuff is so fascinating, why didn't you make the movie about it?
Then, just to put a meatball on top of the mountain of glurge, there's this scene where a new narrator shows up and picks up where the old one left off and he not only spells out the theme of the movie, he sits down with his dad, who was one of the characters in the movie...
Old guy: I'm sorry I wasn't a better father.
Young guy: You were da best!
Me: YOU WEREN'T IN THIS FUCKING MOVIE! You can't tug on my heartstrings when neither of you or your relationship were touched on for ten seconds!
Awful writing, and it drags the movie down something fierce.
As for the movie itself, I was okay with it until the ending. You know how in biopics, they do the plinkly piano thing and then they talk about everything some musician did after he got over being so addicted to drugs? Well, here, it goes on thirty goddamn minutes or so. It's like Return of the King, the damn thing just keeps ending and ending and ending! Really, Eastwood, if this stuff is so fascinating, why didn't you make the movie about it?
Then, just to put a meatball on top of the mountain of glurge, there's this scene where a new narrator shows up and picks up where the old one left off and he not only spells out the theme of the movie, he sits down with his dad, who was one of the characters in the movie...
Old guy: I'm sorry I wasn't a better father.
Young guy: You were da best!
Me: YOU WEREN'T IN THIS FUCKING MOVIE! You can't tug on my heartstrings when neither of you or your relationship were touched on for ten seconds!
Awful writing, and it drags the movie down something fierce.
