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Requiem for a Dream... a masterpiece.
There is a small picture that released in '71, "Red Sky at Morning" and it is a period piece from the 1940s and deals with a young man (Richard Thomas) coming of age in a small town in New Mexico where his father (played splendidly by Richard Crenna) has ensconced his son (Thomas) & wife (the gorgeous Claire Bloom) for the duration as he volunteers to go off and fight the Japs. It deals primarily with race & class distinction and how these two weights must shape us. Harry Guardino has a small, but, pivotal role as Crenna's best friend and he builds a "Mt. Rushmore" here in the Southwest. Desi Arnaz, Jr. & Catherine Burns, both young players at the time are tremendous.
John Colicos, a fine character actor at that time has the plum role in the film as he plays a distant Southern cousin come to visit there and becomes too close-too cozy with the Southern genteel & mentally unstable Bloom.
For some reason this motion picture has not been released onto DVD.
Requiem for a Dream... a masterpiece.
It should have won the academy award for best picture though.
Certainly shouldn't have been that Shakespeare abortion, but there were two other great WW2 flicks nominated as well that I would probably take as whole movies over Ryan. I guess the common subject may have diluted the voting.
You must be referring to the Thin Red Line, and ? Windtalkers?
Waltz with Bashir for me.. one of my favourite films.. had the best foreign film robbed from it.. haunting but touching.. an excellent film
Definitely... Saving Private Ryan and Thin Red Line both would have been better choices
Thin Red Line is my favourite war film
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Granted, it was a pretty weak year for dramas, conventionally speaking, but anything was better than Shakespeare. I think the best movies from around that time were ones whose impact wasn't immediately felt or ones bodies like the academy wouldn't know what to do with in any case. It was a surprise to me that Thin Red Line got so many nominations, as good as it was.
Thin Red Line was good, but IMHO not as good as Ryan, that first 20 minutes or so as they stormed the beach was incredible and extremely intense filming.
Sure, but the rest was utterly forgettable except for the epilogue.
But, much too cozy in the tradition of "The Green Mile." In both films Hanks character is pious & presumptive of every man/woman (Mile) he "touches." It's tedious and off putting. By the end of each film I find satisfaction with his demise, even to the point of anticipating it with some affirmation.
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Hm, strange viewpoint, but to each his own.
Really? What exactly do you like about it?
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