Sick, stupid movie made to quench Redford’s engorged ego. He quit being a star after Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. He should stick to something like Salad Dressing like Newman.....
Robert Redford is one of those actors for me that, if I see him involved in any way from producer to actor, I just won’t watch the movie, most especially if the movie involves the military.
It is like having Jane Fonda involved in any kind of military movie.
Same with all the Liam Neelson movies where he kills gazillions of bad guys with handguns, and you read his anti-gun sentiments in the paper the next day. Sigh. I just can’t overlook the hypocrisy anymore.
Late Tuesday night - rather Wednesday ‘morning,’ I saw the Redford film ‘An Unfinished Life.’ With Morgan Freeman. Other good actors.
Kind of a lot going on in the movie - plot-lines galore.
With the benefits of a century of development and experience, Hollywood these days has finely tuned story-telling skills and exceptional technical command over its medium. Pervasive hostility though toward American society and traditional values routinely deprives Hollywood of the ability to explore larger themes and ideas and to connect with the general public.
The result is that movies today may entertain as story and spectacle but rarely give us cause to think after the credits roll -- except for conservatives to grit their teeth at the way that they and American institutions are so often portrayed as bad guys. The public at large mostly ignores or discounts the more blatant bits of propaganda found in the movies.
Notably, the massive demand for content due to cable TV, DVDs, and Internet video services is opening up enough creative space that traditional themes and ideas emerge again and again in what is being seen as a new "golden age" of television. Commercial opportunity is thus fostering greater creative freedom and beginning to undermine Hollywood's Leftist orthodoxy. In time, even the movies will reflect this trend.
Castle Keep......much better.
Cheesey movie, but the battle scene at the end was kind of cool. Only liked Redford in Jeremiah Johnson.