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Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best (2011)
Tepid
I don't understand why people are raving about this movie. I wanted it to be as good as some of the other reviewers said, but found it to be unoriginal and dull. It's your typical indie comedy offbeat romance/find yourself picture. Felt like they we trying to go for the whole "Garden State" feel, but it wasn't as smartly observed or executed. While the actors are all likable and it was well shot, I found the characters and plot to be one dimensional and predictable. The Andrew McCarthy brother character being one example of many characters who seemed to come out of a Do-It-Yourself screen writing kit. The strict and religious older brother who wants his free-spirited younger brother to grow up and fly right. I thought the music was okay, but neither that nor any of the insights the characters make throughout the movie are nearly as good or profound as anyone in the movie seems to think they are.
I don't know why this movie bugged me so much, it really isn't awful, I thought it was going to be more interesting than it was.
Band of Brothers (2001)
Not great
This is a war film that tells what happened to these men very well, but it doesn't really show us a complete vision of any one of it's characters. Maybe it's because of the source material, but I never felt like I was ever inside any of these characters minds, reacting to the brutality and madness with them. I feel like the most insight we get into how it actually felt to be out there is from the interviews at the start of each episode. Do these characters even think about what they are killing and dying for? When Winter goes to Paris he gets flashbacks of killing that soldier in the ambush. What comes of it? It makes it seem like war is some kind of macho football game type of thing, where a lot of people die, and we should be sad, but why....This could have benefitted from using internal dialogue with it's characters, then I might care more when one gets his leg blown off. For more insight into what it feels like to be there see Malick's "Thin Red Line"
Star Wars (1977)
Can you say overrated?
The special effects don't look nearly as impressive, or hold up as well, as those in Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. The story is nothing more than a bad Western set in space. The acting is suspect and the dialogue is hokey. Get over it, it's not that good a movie, especially not deserving of #3 in the IMDB rankings.