Just saw it. It's a visual masterpiece but nothing more. It tries too hard to be profound and "epic"...

Just saw it. It's a visual masterpiece but nothing more. It tries too hard to be profound and "epic". And why does there always have to be a lonely woman with a baby that the protagonist is nice to in every war movie? So fucking cliched.

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I heard the director is a pedophile and the production company is covering it up

It has pretty much nothing to do with real life events and I hate that. We don't have any modern films that deal with the subject at all. The first world war is in fact quite an interesting subject for a lot of us and I think there is an audience for it for a good effort from at least an okay director that gives a shit. But to be fair no such director really exists with a budget worty of dealing historical settings without compromising the film by studio. Producers want an assured investment and if you are smart enough after a certain time you will begin to feel this and understand why films are packed with cliched and purposely dumbed down elements. Hollywood is all about business and that's that.

>was actually interested in seeing it
>in the trailer they jump off a fucking waterfall
and that made it go from "must-see" to "i'll read the wikipedia article". hate stupid shit like that

What we really need is a Band of Brothers style series about WW1. It would be absolute kino.

As to be really specific, Americans love war heros that are good because it doesn't reflect real life problems and creates easy escapism like comic book films. It's all about fantasizing without stretching any creativity.
This.
That would pretty much be like 1917, meaning mostly dumb and only stretched but what ever. Not that I hate Band of Brothers.

He didn't jump he fell down.

stop spreading lies

I honestly wish I could nuke the US, not trying to be edgy. If there was a button I could push to nuke them without consequence, I'd push it.

Did you expect his friend to die a that early in the movie??

No, that was a surprise desu.

>It's a visual masterpiece
Yes
>but nothing more
If it already is a visual masterpice, does it really need to be something else? Why?

Films are supposed to tell a story, no?

I watched it two times in cinema because it was just an incredible experience there. Pretty much the essence of Hollywood Kino and that's it. It doesn't even try to be more than a simple story blown up with money and a little gimmick.

Always tear up at the end when he runs in the field and the soldiers rush to their death from the side though.

Films are supposed to convey emotions in a viewer

>Always tear up at the end when he runs in the field and the soldiers rush to their death from the side though.
I didn't get why he did this. Why not just make his way through the trench?

Not necessarily, good films can be though provoking too.

Wouldn´t make it in time. They would already send other waves of soldiers by the time he got to Bendthatdick Cuminhersnatch

Why not send a guy on a plane with a parachute? He gets there in 30 minutes tops, jumps off the plane and delivers the message.

Only the company that the mcs where from knew the information and sending them with oral information was the safest way to ensure the Germans didn't knew they knew.

They had planes didn't they? Where else did they get the aerials? So just send one of those planes with a parachutist instead of sending two dudes alone on foot into enemy territory.

This is the Great war era, not some larp war story. Are you fucking nuts?

C.O.s would stop him and possibly execute him for an attempted desertion at the start of the charge.

My dad said pretty much the same thing about it and he's the type of guy who's impressed by the shittiest action/war films so I imagine this is true.

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You can't unfold such a plot on any front the Anglos fought at so that movie would never be made. Only the Eastern Front had the movement and dynamics for that but we can't have that either because le ebil Germans won there.

just drop a fucking thousands paper with the orders written

Who cares if german receive the message? They are waiting on a heavy defended position, so now they know nobody's coming. Big fucking deal.

Yes, because in the trailer he's running around on his own most of the time.

There is a story lol
the guy delivers a message and finds peace in doing it.

I know a story exists, it's just that it's told rather badly.

He was running along the trench for a good while before that and no one tried to stop him.

this desu