tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post5598646765828929723..comments2024-03-12T12:38:23.542-04:00Comments on The Kind of Face You Hate: Let 'Em Burnbill r.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17748572205731857892noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-34168017303404036912019-01-24T23:58:17.394-05:002019-01-24T23:58:17.394-05:00This movie is great. It is pretty relistic and the...This movie is great. It is pretty relistic and the gore is accurate. But at the same time, it’s a flying fuck you to the allies, because we only see Americans fightingAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-36207407351709729732011-01-12T23:10:29.188-05:002011-01-12T23:10:29.188-05:00(if ever there was a weak, or even bad, script tha...<i>(if ever there was a weak, or even bad, script that was turned into a great film entirely due to the skill of the director, it's this one</i>)<br /><br />I don't know how I missed this. I mean, the holidays are always busy for me at work and home and I check in here regularly but, somehow, didn't see this, ever. Anyway, that line I quote at the top of the comment is a pretty good summation of how I feel. I don't think it's great but I do think the reason it's not great is because the script calls for a lot of obvious set up and payoff motifs.<br /><br />Spielberg does an excellent job and, indeed, it's the parts of the movie that contain no dialogue where, even with basic scenario outlining from the script by Rodat, is still mainly Spielberg. I think had anyone else directed this script it would have been pretty awful to watch.Greghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05730146625671701859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-47626450740180974762010-12-23T13:32:54.685-05:002010-12-23T13:32:54.685-05:00Thanks, John. I'll be honest -- watching it a...Thanks, John. I'll be honest -- watching it again the other day, I winced like never before at the jokey interaction within the squad. Almost none of that stuff rings true, but I can't help but love what Spielberg does with Rodat's mess of a script, and the complexity inherent in some of Rodat's ideas that wouldn't have come through with anywhere near the power if Spielberg hadn't been so brutal.bill r.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17748572205731857892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-34379160742755289002010-12-23T01:45:09.294-05:002010-12-23T01:45:09.294-05:00Very nice. I don't think I'll ever like th...Very nice. I don't think I'll ever like this movie (the script, the story, the in-your-face sentimentality, all worked against it, for me) but you do a good job here of presenting it in a different light, one that accentuates its undeniable strengths. Schindler's List, I think, is a much better example, on the whole, of this dark, cruel, mature side to Spielberg's vision, only let down by that single awkward moment of cheap bathos towards the end.Johnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-59183396838852511332010-12-22T20:57:22.124-05:002010-12-22T20:57:22.124-05:00Amon Goeth as romantic antihero...that's one w...Amon Goeth as romantic antihero...that's one way to look at him, I guess.bill r.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17748572205731857892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-74238084884927326432010-12-22T19:10:58.593-05:002010-12-22T19:10:58.593-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Adam Zanziehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14524618281515322239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-58228375599581803382010-12-22T17:26:27.846-05:002010-12-22T17:26:27.846-05:00Thank you, Adam, although I must say that when I w...Thank you, Adam, although I must say that when I watch Goeth get hanged, I <i>do</i> think some variation on "Yeah! The Nazi fuck got his!" I don't think it would be normal, after seeing what Goeth did, to NOT think that in some way. You might not be so celebratory about it, but some part of you must find some catharsis in that moment. And that includes the trouble of kicking out the stool. Let him think about a little bit longer.bill r.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17748572205731857892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-22595548869611668662010-12-22T17:12:20.364-05:002010-12-22T17:12:20.364-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Adam Zanziehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14524618281515322239noreply@blogger.com