A truly excellent and IMHO underrated war movie, both as the movie format or the mini TV series format I first watched as a snotty totally stunned teen all those decades ago. Masterpiece, and that amazing theme will never leave my my brain.
I remember watching this flick as a cheap cinema matinée flick in mid 70s. Us snotty kids was of course expecting a cool action filled western movie with by then known bad ass Charles Bronson. As usual back then by looking at those usual black and white photos plastered randomly outside the cinema lol.
Imaging our totally confused little faces getting out of the cinema. Wtf did we just watch?! Certainly not that awesome western flick we'd expected from effing Charles Bronson! Some kind of confusing silly comedy without action or whetever this was supposed to be?. Wtf !?
Worst wEsTerN AND Bronson flick eVeR !!II (Modern social media reaction translation)
I'd forgot abut this flick until a rewatch a couple years ago. Today I appreciate this totally underrated clever comedy/satire about myths, rumours and media. Tbh, actually more actual today than in the 70s in a scary way. It's not flawless and of course naturally a bit dated, but still recommended.
Highly enjoyed this. Since it covers like three decades I wasn't bothered by the length. Butler did a great job carrying this heavy role. Nitpicking from me would be that he still looked a slight young at the end, but whatever. Hanks was truly great hamming it up.
I really appreciated they spent some time showing Elvis' background growing up with black traditional music which without it he wouldn't even had recorded "It's alright now Mama", which made him a star. I hope most of that early stuff is somewhat correct.
Solid, generally enjoyable but also uneven and a little too choppy and far from exceptional. Good casting and generally acting, a little too much more kiddified than the book (including notably Ron being a little too goofy and inept though pretty good depiction of the rest of the big three and chemistry between the three, Hagrid sometimes too comically inept though still pretty effective) and yet also a fine foundation with room for improvement. It's probably John Williams's worst score, the music in itself OK but in how it's used mostly bad, the music particularly too bombastic-overbearing.
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