Spike Lee's Miracle at St. Anna

'sokay.

real scattershot, like 20 movies in one - script would make nabisco's head explode with its sloppiness~~~

johnny legs cameo was tyte, omar from the wire goes down like a bitch

first third or so plays out like a coen bros comedy, real slapstick-y

cool part when a babby gets bayonneted

bayoneted

Would've been a lot better w/out the bookends.

there are like 14 people in this movie who are only in 1 scene

scenes with the nice nazi commander dude were the worst - love the moment when his superior tells him to shoot partisans on sight, since they're TERRORISTS it's not against the geneva convention HMMM it really makes u think!

haha

eh this kind of falls apart the more i think about it.

plus i'm spoiled by band of brothers, which set about as high a bar as you can for staging and filming battle sequences

This looks awful.

it's getting some eviscerating reviews

It's totally earned them.

Would've been a lot better w/out the bookends.

srsly! all the Joseph Gordon-Levitt/John Turturro/Kerry Washington stuff could've been OK if they'd gotten more than one scene each, but as is it was just kind of a weak framing device. also i HATED that they had the same actor play the main character in both eras, his old man makeup was awful.

i liked parts of this movie a lot, flawed as it was, and i think i actually made my review more positive than it could've been after i saw how low its metacritic/rotting tomatoes ratings were and kinda took pity on it.

there is never a reason to cut kerry washington from a movie

yeah i had zero complaints abt the kerry washington cameo, movie would've been better if it was just her and leguizamo fightin ratzis

If only Spike dealt more w/ the religion vs. myth stuff, and actually gave a shit about his characters, and didn't reach for Moments of Cinematic Greatness. But hey boobies!

There is never a reason to waste Kerry Washington on a 2-line cameo!

cankles otm

ain't complainin' about chix factor when this lady was in the movie tho:

http://www.agencesimpson.fr/IMG/jpg/securedownload-1.jpg

is that dude from placebo?

lol

oh yeah leguizamo was in this too, wasn't he. making out with someone? and he's a nazi art dealer? in italy? for one scene?

haha yeah. his part was so small that i forgot about it when listing all the other notable small roles!

thank god we didn't get more than five minutes of Gordon-Levitt spouting antiquated cop movie banter, though, one Brick was enough.

This was mediocre, but not flagrantly so. Had the same structural problems as Saving Private Ryan.

Then again, most war movies are pretty dull to me.

mostly this seems like a lot of wasted opportunities to me. there are plenty of great stories of black service in ww2 that could be mined, so there's that. nothing much was made of the "now" story being set in the 80s and not 2008. the love triangle was arbitrary. the ideological conflicts within the americans, italians and germans were ham-fisted and not mapped into each other with any grace at all. the visual logic of the gunplay was sub-john wayne, especially embarrassing considering the swipe at the duke that opens the movie.

it seems the point of the film is to tell the story of how the statue head, the luger, the soldier and the partisan make it out of tuscany and into NYC but not much of the film is concerned with that, so "script would make nabisco's head explode" otm.

kudos for having so little english dialogue tho

been a long time since ive seen a movie that was as simultaneously terrible and good

simultaneously good-bad and terrible-bad