Posted on 02/07/2014 9:39:35 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
If you care about art, you are obliged to loathe the film The Monuments Men, a star-studded history drama that purports to tell the story of American efforts to rescue and repatriate art stolen by the Nazis in World War II. The film doesnt lapse occasionally into cliché, it is grounded in cliché, woven of cliché and consists of nothing but cliché. Director, producer and screenplay co-author George Clooney may believe he is serving art, but Monuments Men serves only cliché, and cliché is the enemy of art.
Monuments Men is so bad I will save you the trouble and expense of seeing it with the following summary. To make the film a bit more coherent, Ive substituted the word puppies for art.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
If even the liberal Washington Post says it is bad, then you KNOW it must be a stinker.
Cloony, Murray, Damon...
Liberal F.A.G. personified....
It’s a movie. It is not a documentary. It is not a newsreel. It is pretend.
Treat it as such.
The “message” is whether or not it’s entertaining. No more, no less.
Here’s a guy who says that an overbearing score wrecked it for him:
“... the apparent solution was to slap on a musical score that tells the viewer exactly how to feel at every possible moment. If youve ever doubted how thoroughly a poor score can wreck an otherwise perfectly acceptable motion picture, get thee to Monuments Men.”
http://flavorwire.com/437299/how-monuments-men-went-horribly-wrong/
I missed "Red Tails". Figured out from the promos that it was going to stink, but FR reviews pushed me over the line.
Will miss Monuments Men, too. If it has Clooney AND Matt Damon, I'm frankly surprised that they didn't rewrite the script so the Russkies were the good guys, and Americans lost the war.
This is one movie that you can tell is horrible just by looking at the commercial. Hollywood has squeezed every single plotline it can out of the Nazis as villians and now we get this mind-numbingly stupid tripe.
All movies out of Hollywood is garbage. I wrote a good inspiring WW2 script and had 1 producer read it and he said it was to expensive to make. Yet they spend millions on CGI crap all the time.. Hollywood is crap..
I must say that is the best (only) article I’ve read from the WaPo!
Pansies in Hollywood, like Clooney and all the others of his gentle ilk, have a fetishistic love of prancing about in military gear they never had the nerve to wear in real life.
I did theater with a guy who was in 1 film: The Big Red One. He even had a decent part.
The author says Hitler loved art (puppies) but that was true for Old Masters; he had no use for modern art. I haven’t seen the movie so I can ‘t comment on the rest of Philip Kennicott’s review except to say is basic premise is flawed.
BTW, I clicked the link to ‘email the writer’ so I could mention that, but the email bounced.
Pinging you to another amusing (and surprising, really) pan
OK! I’m going against the tide here. I’ve been planning for weeks to see this movie tonight on my wedding anniversary. I’ve read the WHOLE WP article and I just see a snide criticism of the movie. I’ve seen the trailers on TV and in the theatre for weeks, and it looks like a pretty good film to me. I hope all of you are wrong and that we enjoy the film. I’ll let you know.
Just replied to it. I hope the WP is wrong because I’m been looking forward to this film for weeks and will see it tonight.
Kennicott is opposed to cliche. I suppose that is valid for high art but this is mass entertainment.
It's also the enemy of good writing. I refused to read any further this insult to my intelligence.
Don't be too sure that you will dislike it for the same reason this little darling got his panties in a wad.
I might see it at the second run or on DVD or maybe just wait until it pops up on the TV in a few but I think I will see it. If only for that one part.
I can’t remember who it was that said, “more bowls of salted peanuts are sold then caviar,” but he was on to something.
It apparently bothers the writer that the Clooney's movie it too pro-America.
And not enough pro-Russia.
I wasn't planning to see it. But maybe I will now.
I can’t tell you how pissed I was when I heard they were going to make a movie based on the book (Yaaay! Great book!) only to then discover who they were casting for it.
Unbelievable. Talk about screwing up a wet dream.
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