Revolution was nominated for 4 Razzie Awards, but went home empty handed Worst Picture Lost against Rambo II Worst Actor for Al Pacino Lost against Sylvester Stallone for Rambo II and Rocky IV Worst Director for Hugh Hudson Lost against Sylvester Stallone for Rocky IV Worst Musical Score Lost against Rocky IV
I had a number of issues with auto Content ID on this one and had to re-upload, as the video was blocked worldwide. I'm just letting everyone know this in case this video disappears later. If it is taken down I will appeal any and all copyright disputes until the video is reinstated. Anyway, thanks for watching.
Georg Rockall-Schmidt your haircut makes you look like an egg headed, gouteed Karl Pilkington. Time to bring back boisterous Bros and introduce a really tall bespectacled man. That's how you make it in British podcasts.
I was a extra in this,in the Pacino/berkoff scene....what an incredible time that was lol..the film might not be great or even good lol but it was a fun 2 weeks....17 year old kid (at the time) from the West Midlands meeting The Godfather. Happy days :-)
I was an extra in the King's Lynn, Ely, Melton Constable, & overnight lake shoots, for around three months, & had a great time! The film itself is shite, but it was fun working on it, & the food in the big tents in the Tuesday Marketplace was fab!! 😋
@@M_Lopez_3D_Artist None of the extras 'met' him, & he certainly didn't do autographs, nor did Nastassia Kinski, but Donald Sutherland? You couldn't STOP him mixing with the 'little people'! One day, he disappeared off round the King's Lynn shopping centre, in full costume, during a break between scenes! 🤣 And Robbie Coltrane? He'd talk all day, if you bought him a wee dram in the Globe Hotel bar, in the Marketplace in KL!
Oh god, not this movie. In middle school my social studies teacher had us watch this movie TWICE, spread out over probably 4 months. She touted it as this completely historically accurate portrayal of the revolutionary war and we even had quizzes on the movie. And ever single time she mentioned the name of the movie it was always "The Revolution with Al Pacino." She totally didn't have a thing for Al Pacino or anything. But anyway, imagine being forced to watch the movie in 10 to 15 minute segments over the course of months and being quizzed on it. As petty revenge I would steal her pens from her desk every single class. I think she knew I was doing that, but she never said anything. I had a shoebox full of pens by the end of the year and that shoebox full of pens is more interesting than this movie. Also, as for your comments about the first battle, that's more or less how the early battles with the British went. As it turns out putting colonists in a row with rifles and telling them to face down what were probably seasoned and extremely well trained soldiers was a bad idea. Lines broke, people ran and it wasn't until much later in the war when we had formed the continental army with properly trained soldiers that any kind of battle in an open field against the British ended is anything other than defeat or a rout.
My 6th grade history teacher, made us watch Gandhi. I think by the same director, so I feel the pain. We had a 40min class, and it took all week, maybe a 6th day, to get through it.
I once ran down the high street to try and catch a bus. And a busker played the theme from Chariots of Fire to accompany my rapid pace. I truly felt the glory of that moment.
As a huge fan of both Barry Lyndon and Ran, I'm thoroughly amazed I'd never even heard of this debacle. Still, I'm glad you watched and dissected it, so I don't have to.
I understand this movie, and damn sure shed a tear at the last scene, where Tom says goodbye to his son, and the movie sas melody starts to play. At this moment i understand what this movie was supposed to be. Al Pacino whispering throughout the movie is not that different from his other movies. He wasnt miscast. But somebody messed up, not finishing the movie at the editing table, and forgetting to use or even film some scenes. For example Daisy and Tom chemistry shows up out of nowhere, and she wants to marry him. It is like they missed their first few conversations... or was he just that handsome? So i get the movie. It’s like Mel Gibson’s Patriot if it were filmed in 1985 and someone fcked up the direction and editing.... i m sure Ronald Emmerich stole a lot of things from this one. And i love the Patriot. I love how menacing they showed the British to be at the opening New York battles. They did not explain how the Continental army managed to turn the tables around, but then again, it doesnt have to. This movie is from the perspective of Tom Dobb. And he found a new energy for war after saving his son, now all in, to beat the enemy and liberate their country. This movie is not as bad as they say it is, far from it. But it in reality is a bunch of scenes thrown together... I can see Pacino’s struggle as a father, trying to keep his son alive and safe. Donald Sutherland character is a good smug British and the other posh Englishman is just a complete douche. Watch it. Not many movies about the Revolution exist. It is a hard area to tackle.
The collapse of Goldcrest also meant the final season of Robin Of Sherwood didn't get made as they were it's major financial backer. The third season hadn't been all that great but it's still sad the series never got a proper ending.
One of the minor nit picks. You can really tell that this was filmed in the UK. THere's just something about Britain that doesn't work as the Americas. Especially the Long Island Battle (not a single tree in sight, ditto for Yorktown. The shear scale and untamed wilderness on the edge of even the big cities does not come through and then you get a drawing room drama (and not a good one). There is a good movie about Revolutionary New York to be made (probably the largest concentration of loyalists in the Colonies, but a city full of spies)., It literally took 200 years to figure out who some of Washington's chief agents had been And after 78' no major movements inland at all. That could make an interesting film,
I have always LOVED Revolution. I've seen it many times. I don't even mind how oddball everyone's accents are. I wish they'd spent more time in editing and sound editing. But the plot is great!
I gotta say; I like this channel so much I even like to watch his break downs of films I have ZERO interest in otherwise. Kudos to you. Keep up the good work.
LOL! You refer to this movie as a movie very few have heard of. The last time I heard of this movie was my sophomore year of high school where the teacher showed it. If it wasn't for your channel I never would have heard of it prior!
Utterly unrelated, but I feel compelled to remark upon the way in which your profile picture distinguishes you as a man of unimpeachable taste. Good show, good sir, good show!
TheSuperQuail Then I'd have egg on my face. In case he decides to do that, I wish to clarify that at the time of commenting, his profile picture is either a work of fanart or a colorization of a panel featuring the Berserker Armor from Kentaro Miura's Berserk. It is not for the feint of heart, but if you're fine with depictions of truly horrible actions in fiction, you'll find one of the greatest action fantasy epics of all time waiting for you. Go read it! It's great! The anime's shit, though. Don't watch it.
So, I was actually in this movie and I don't know how it turned out like it did. The script was good, the production value was good. I think the actors were good. It seems like it just... ran out of money or something near the end of production. I recall seeing this in the movie theater just before Christmas '85 and recall that it looked unfinished. It was heavily edited and what I saw looked...well, looked like dailies. It just didn't look polished or finished. It was....gritty. Dirty. While I get that was a cinematic choice (as it was certainly that way when filming it) I guess it was somehow going to look more polished than it did when it came out. I can tell you no expense was spared in set design and costumes and extras. The production was HUGE. Sorry to see that what actually was delivered fell so short though. Oh well.
Hugh Hudson is such an underrated talent who should have directed much more bigger films over his career it’s a shame few people know his name as he is such a talented director and we need more people like him today to tackle films with such a grand scope but with central character relationships.
It was Revolution that finally turned me against my 10th grade World History teacher. He had been showing us "period" films all year to supplement his completely inadequate teaching. I had never heard of it and was curious but by the second day of it I was offended that he would pick such an obviously horrible film. I spent a lot of time in that class playing Tetris on a TI-83+.
Hugh Hudson was the Golden boy of 1980s British Cinema. He came up with good stuff in the decade most famous being Chariots of Fire and other projects. Revolution probably led to his downfall in the movie industry except for a memorable much acclaimed British Airways ad later in the decade with Yanni as composer as his swansong from the decade and probably from film making. Even Revolution had some good parts. Hugh Hudson was clearly a very talented director but after Revolution his star faded into oblivion. He never quite lived up to his billing as the British Steven Spielberg of the 1980s. Clearly Spielberg had more success during and since. But we should not forget Hugh Hudson as being one of those very talented artists who made the 1980s such a memorable decade for entertainment.
I know you had a lot of comments about the hair. But i must say, I'll miss it. It added a lot to your character, and helped your facial expressions have more depth, as dumb as that'll sound. How ever, great video as always. Never stop!
A lot of video stores carried Revolution in the 90's, and that's how and when I saw it. It was certainly flawed. The story jumped around, the character development was uneven, and Nastassja Kinski's character was completely pointless. But I liked Revolution because it felt really faithful to the history. There are surprisingly few movies set during the American revolution, and almost all of them are dumb action propaganda pieces like The Patriot. I loved that the revolutionaries lost the first battle in this movie because they had terrible discipline. (Most movies set during this war treat them like they're ninjas). And I love that the Continental Congress jerked the main character around just as much as the British did. I thought the scene in the end where Pacino says, essentially, if you think I'm going to stop fighting for my rights just because the British are gone, you're crazy- was genuinely moving.
Thanks for doing this. I was thinking about this movie the other day and why I'd never seen anything about it. I'd love to see a full-on review series of the high budget historical epic 80s Oscar bait movies that no one watches or talks about anymore. There were a ton.
Well done Georg. Enjoyed this well deserved roast. If you’ve not looked into it, there’s a book called The Devil’s Candy that could provide you with subject matter for another review in a similar lane. It features a director who was arguably bankable, a studio hungry for Oscar gold and box office windfalls and a cast of characters who, in the literary version by Tom Wolfe, were engaging and believable, but through ham-handed star casting forced by studio capos, ended up as little more than trite and exposed pretenders in this regrettable telling of yet another New York tale. I for one would welcome your take on another big budget Hollywood meltdown.
I worked on this film for a week in 1985 in Kings Lynn travelling from Lowestoft each day, I got to speak to Al Pacino but my biggest memory was talking to Robbie Coltrane, we discussed the set and he was saying that some of the buildings looked like they could be in Holland and looking back at my photo's he 's quite right, I asked him if he would be doing more of the sketch show, I think it was kick up the 80's, he said no he wanted to do other things, a lovely man who took the time to have a conversation with a bloke working on set, he got a couple of seconds on screen but who cares he went on to be Hagrid!
I love talking about these films: Big budget films that nobody watched and became completely lost. So much money and energy was spent to accomplish so little.
Kind of tempted to watch this now, I'm sure there's a drinking game in it somewhere! Looking good, Georg, thanks for the vid. Maybe flip the footage if it keeps getting copyright claims?
I remember renting this movie and watching it with my dad years ago. We both agreed it was awful. Pacino was terribly miscast. And since you mentioned it, the Patriot sucked too.
Argus: Yeah, you're right, but that isn't saying much. I actually wanted to like the Patriot but it had some glaring historical inaccuracies that made it way too much to swallow. The main character being a southern plantation owner who employs black men rather than owning them just isn't very plausible and is way too convenient to get us to identify with him, but just as I got past that there was the ridiculous wedding on the beech scene. The over the top savagery of the British villain Tavington was also hard to swallow for me, since I've read a lot of history about that war and the Brits were never so cruel as to lock people in churches and burn them alive (Southern colonists did use the war as an excuse to settle scores with feuding families, though, and did some horrible shit to each other). Tavington was based on the real life Tarleton, who was accused of murdering US POWs at one point, but the details of that incident are pretty hazy, and Tarleton went on to distinguished service in the Napoleonic wars in later years. Mel Gibson movies like that tend to be a bit preachy or polemic or whatever the proper word is for it, and that also sticks in my craw. But you are correct, they are all way more fun to watch than this POS.
The American War of independence is just... a terrible setting for a feature film. It was an extremely long an drawn out conflict, few had classic character motivations, and the style of battle of that time just seems inexplicable to a modern audience. It was a long war of attrition, it was a war where every year soldiers would quit being soldiers to bring in the harvest then go back to being soldiers again. The "Founding Fathers" are a great eclectic bunch to follow in a TV series, but as a setting for a love story or one person uninvolved in the history, it's just a bad idea.
@Gary Daniel Well, the fighting in the Carolinas in real life led almost directly to the siege of Yorktown. In the Patriot, the climactic battle scene was a combination of two real life Battle of Cowpens and the Battle of Guilford Courthouse. The Americans won at Cowpens, basically wiping out Tarleton's horse unit in the process, and had to yield the field at Guilford, but got away with light losses. The campaign had Corwallis chasing the American forces under Gen. Greene around the back country and wore him down, eventually prompting him to head for Wilmington, NC and later Yorktown, VA on the coast where he could link up with the Royal Navy for supplies and reinforcements. Washington saw him heading for Yorktown, and had the French admiral Comte De Grasse intercept and defeat the Royal Navy's attempt to move troops from New York to Yorktown. Washington laid siege to Cornwallis, who was forced to surrender since no help was coming for him.
I respect you Georg but everything you put forward as bad points are the things that made this film interesting, worth watching, unique and why I love it. Never boring, always surprising. And that scene with Richard O'Brien, I mean just look at those giant wigs the ladies had on, just incredible, hilariously absurd. You're spot on about the Director's cut though.
Kagemusha is amazing, but Ran is what I consider to be Kurosawa's magnum opus. It's not as easy of a watch as his golden age -stuff, in fact it's quite demanding - and it starts really slow.. But if you stick with it, you'll be rewarded unlike very few other films can reward you. Doesn't hurt that you could pretty much hang any frame of the film on your wall and you'd have a masterpiece of art, although that's true for Kagemusha as well. Tatsuya Nakadai does stellar job as the lead in both movies. He's great in other stuff than Kurosawa too; The Sword of Doom, Harakiri, Kwaidan. My favourite Japanese actor, even above Mifune! Oh, and those last two films I mentioned reminded me: if you're a fan of Kurosawa, but never saw a film from Masaki Kobayashi, *get your shit together asap!*
@Alexander Kolcev Let it go, let it go Can't grow it back anymore Let it go, let it go Say goodbye forever more I don't care that my hair's gone away Turn my clippers on The sun never bothered me anyway
This is the most mature and sophisticated channel I watch on youtube and the comment section reflects that. Seriously though im glad its a joyful comment section and not an overtly pissy one like im used to seeing.
I had forgotten this movie completely. I did go to see it. The only part I remember at all was the Yorktown battle and resolution between the fathers and sons on either side. I thought that was part of some overall story that got cut out somehow.
Man... So I was going to buy this movie. I've been playing Assassin's Creed III again and, living in Philadelphia, I tend to veer towards the American Revolution anyway. I finished John Adams - I sobbed, Lord I wept - and thought, hey, I remember this movie with Al Pacino that they made us watch twenty minutes of in school. I am so glad I didn't buy this. Lord. The way the British fop is depicted rivals the extras of Sofia Coppola's Marie-Antoinette. Great video; subscribed.
Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro are two actors thoroughly unsuited for films set before the 20th Century. The Mission had some stellar performances (especially Jeremy Irons) and found a place for anti-hero DeNiro to shine during his physical performance in the desperate defense of the mission. I can't think of anything involving Pacino in Revolution that worked. Watching Natassja Kinski get sliced nearly propelled me out of the theater in 1985. Hell, she was better served in Cat People. Revolution doesn't even have a great David Bowie recording over the end credits...
Too many hair jokes down here. Luckily for Georg, he doesn't need any. If I shaved my head it would look three times as large! But anyway, I'll just take the high road and not even mention anything about hair. Great vid!!
Congratulations on not mentioning new hair. I must say, your comment was an inspiration to me as not once during its entire length did I even consider thinking about his hair. In fact, I shall take it as an inspiration to similarly not talk about the hair. I must say, I fee refreshed and invigorated already. Who would have ever guessed what a difference choosing not to talk about someone's hair would make in one's life? I never could have. Not until now. Yes, indeed, from the moment on, I shall never ever ever mention the hair again!
HerrNilssonTheMonkey Yeah, I do wish there were more comments relevant to the video since it was quite interesting like all of his videos. But, if ya can't beat'em, join'em. Lol
_Barry Lyndumb_ . Every clip of _Revolution_ is a fireworks display of baffling creative decisions. _The Mission_ is a masterpiece that holds up in every way (a script by _Lawrence Of Arabia_ writer Robert Bolt helps) and I remember 1986 - the film's soundtrack was better known than the film itself. Very little promotion of the movie.
Have to admit, I've never heard of this movie nor seen it. Why is that? I'm betting that your critique & explanation of this movie is the answer to that question. Boy it was hard to get through this one
Get your facts right! Chariots of Fire won four Oscars as you say (Film, Screenplay, Musical Score & Costume Design), but not for Director, Hugh Hudson. The Best Director Oscar that year went to Warren Beatty for Reds.
This is one of the few films I knew of while it was made, but I have never seen. Some of the scenes were shot on location on the island I lived on as a child here in Norway. My sister, who was 14 at the time, went with her school friends to the airport to get a glimpse of the movie stars before they were whisked away in cars. I don't know which scenes they were, but the scene in the woods with the Indian had the right flora, with birches and ferns.
Makes a deeply thoughtful video with a very discerning breakdown of an interesting topic. Nuggets are obsessed with his hair. This is why grownups don't youtube.
parts of this were filmed in kings lynn -my hometown! we just had armando ianucci in town doing a dickens adaptation too! wow and you've just mentioned us!
If anyone wants to see a very good depiction of the main players of the American Revolution, I highly recommend the first four episodes of HBO's John Adams. It's light on battle scenes, but it shows the nuances and the context of events that led to the Revolution - the treatment of colonists; the Boston Massacre and the subsequent lock down of Boston; the arguing and backbiting in Philadelphia; the failed attempt at peace with King George known as the Olive Branch Petition, and so on. The rest of the series is great, but it focuses on the early American government and the earliest split between parties and personalities, as well as the rest of the life of John Adams. Laura Linney as Abigail Adams makes Abigail Adams bae.
I think it's a good movie -& very underrated but it was pretty accurate with details.. this father had so much for his son and it was really really touching. The one young lady who was for the revolution and her entire family were Tories, & the young woman humiliated her mother after the British took New York and her family threw a party... Her mom told her that if she was pro revolutionary, and continue to be so that she couldn't be a part of the family. That right there just wrenched my stomach to pieces.
Great review, this film ranks as one of my "Most Interesting Failures" only to be suggested to a serious film buff. British director, leading man known as one of the great Italian-American actors playing the colonial lead, German actress playing leading lady. The American rebels are far from idealized, while the British seem so inbred one wonders how they can find their way across an ocean. In a way, Sutherland's role reminds me a bit of his performance in 1900, very strangely miscast but only memorable because it is him. One thing I have never seen pointed out was the element that The Patriot latter made good use of in melting down toy soldiers into musket balls. I did not realize the production was rushed to be Oscar-Bait, it makes more sense in that context.
I believe Einstein here is missing the point of this movie. The scenes are very realistic. British officers were quartered with Yankee families, resulting in quite often times, mass friction, as all unwanted house guests quite often do. They wore white powdered wigs because many had syphilis, which resulted in hair loss. They were often cruel and tyrannical towards their soldiers, simply because they could without any hesitation. This was the seventeen hundreds, and life was dirty, unwashed, cruel, and vindictive. Just like today. The battle scenes again were spot on the money. Imagine having to march towards people firing at you, wearing dirty, filthy, uniforms, in a body where many soldiers had not washed in months or even years. Like a mass group of hardcore homeless guys, add in the worst dregs of criminal life, murders, rapos, drunkards, all the above. Then add on more boozing, more brutality, no soap, no shampoo, more lice, more filth, more syphilis, more disease, and walla, welcome to the life of a British soldier in the seventeen hundreds Pachino was simply miscast in this movie. I read that he went into a severe funk, as he had never been in a box office disaster before. But overall, I felt this movie never received the credit it deserved. It was an excellent movie portraying the gritty world of this era. Unlike other movies that show nicely clean uniforms, and happy productive people. It was a very complicated world in those times, similar to now, only human rights were never an issue. Lives were brutally short, and quite often violent with attacks on the frontier from hostile natives. No welfare, unemployment cheques, relief cheques, disability cheques, old age pensions, company pensions, nada, nothing. In those days, you were on your own.
@@prezidenttrump5171 i dont really know what you are talking about. Work for free? what is that? Anyway, i hope you are ok, because you really dont sound grounded.
I remember Revolution being blamed for the collapse of the British film industry as after it came out it was almost impossible for film makers in Britain to get financing!!!
The hand held camera-ness doesn't fit the subject matter. Nor can Al Pacino play anything but a contemporary Italian-American from New York City. He seems like a time traveller. I don't think Sutherland was speaking english, or he was very drunk.
I think Sutherland is meant to be a Yorkshireman, hard to tell, his accent is so bad. Hes a great actor but totally miscast here. Patrick Stewart would have been a much better choice but he was less well known then.
I must be the only dude who went to the cinema TWICE to see this movie... :) I was 15 by then. You are right in your criticism. But I loved the first battle scene and the drum and fife music SO MUCH ... By the way, that was the first time I hever heard the "British Granadiers" march and have NEVER found any better performance of it. Same with "Lilly Burlero". I saw the film dubbed into Spanish, so accents were not an issue (but for the dick-stabbed Brit officer, who was über-gayish anyway) And you are also right about the lack of publicity. There was almost NO marketing campaign. A handful of TV ads for two or three days, which is almost nothing. I only went to see it the first time because i am a war-movie freak and this historic period was new for me right then.
Minus the money lost and the bomb reputation, I got a very Heaven's Gate feel to the scenes. I think it was the choice for very long shots, to make the scenes become a character. I didn't think HG was all the bad but then again, I watched it at home, put it on pause several times and came back to it with a sandwich and a determination to finish it. Some how I get that this film may take the same resolve.
Actually Hugh Hudson was just nominated for Charriots, he lost out to Warren Beatty
You're right. I should have said that Chariots won BEST PICTURE. I apologise. D'oh.
Revolution was nominated for 4 Razzie Awards, but went home empty handed
Worst Picture
Lost against Rambo II
Worst Actor for Al Pacino
Lost against Sylvester Stallone for Rambo II and Rocky IV
Worst Director for Hugh Hudson
Lost against Sylvester Stallone for Rocky IV
Worst Musical Score
Lost against Rocky IV
I had a number of issues with auto Content ID on this one and had to re-upload, as the video was blocked worldwide. I'm just letting everyone know this in case this video disappears later. If it is taken down I will appeal any and all copyright disputes until the video is reinstated. Anyway, thanks for watching.
Georg Rockall-Schmidt Thanks for making it.
I have heard of Revolution it has Al Pacino and that Dexter Fletcher guy from Press Gang.
Yes, quite.
Rather!
Georg Rockall-Schmidt your haircut makes you look like an egg headed, gouteed Karl Pilkington. Time to bring back boisterous Bros and introduce a really tall bespectacled man. That's how you make it in British podcasts.
I was a extra in this,in the Pacino/berkoff scene....what an incredible time that was lol..the film might not be great or even good lol but it was a fun 2 weeks....17 year old kid (at the time) from the West Midlands meeting The Godfather.
Happy days :-)
I loved the movie. It showed that a lot of people were dragged into fighting during this time. They were forced to deal with the English tyranny.
Sid Owen loved it. He said Pacino bought him a VCR (in 1985) and a load of tapes to watch on his hotel room TV.
wow really you met him how was he like?
I was an extra in the King's Lynn, Ely, Melton Constable, & overnight lake shoots, for around three months, & had a great time!
The film itself is shite, but it was fun working on it, & the food in the big tents in the Tuesday Marketplace was fab!! 😋
@@M_Lopez_3D_Artist
None of the extras 'met' him, & he certainly didn't do autographs, nor did Nastassia Kinski, but Donald Sutherland? You couldn't STOP him mixing with the 'little people'!
One day, he disappeared off round the King's Lynn shopping centre, in full costume, during a break between scenes! 🤣
And Robbie Coltrane?
He'd talk all day, if you bought him a wee dram in the Globe Hotel bar, in the Marketplace in KL!
its so rare to find a channel where you enjoy every upload, keep up the great work!
Oh god, not this movie. In middle school my social studies teacher had us watch this movie TWICE, spread out over probably 4 months. She touted it as this completely historically accurate portrayal of the revolutionary war and we even had quizzes on the movie. And ever single time she mentioned the name of the movie it was always "The Revolution with Al Pacino." She totally didn't have a thing for Al Pacino or anything. But anyway, imagine being forced to watch the movie in 10 to 15 minute segments over the course of months and being quizzed on it. As petty revenge I would steal her pens from her desk every single class. I think she knew I was doing that, but she never said anything. I had a shoebox full of pens by the end of the year and that shoebox full of pens is more interesting than this movie.
Also, as for your comments about the first battle, that's more or less how the early battles with the British went. As it turns out putting colonists in a row with rifles and telling them to face down what were probably seasoned and extremely well trained soldiers was a bad idea. Lines broke, people ran and it wasn't until much later in the war when we had formed the continental army with properly trained soldiers that any kind of battle in an open field against the British ended is anything other than defeat or a rout.
My condolences
My 6th grade history teacher, made us watch Gandhi.
I think by the same director, so I feel the pain. We had a 40min class, and it took all week, maybe a 6th day, to get through it.
@@CorbCorbin No, Gandhi was made by Richard Attenborough.
it made by another director. And is a good movie, unlike this garbage
The irony is that very little from what I'm seeing in his clips seems to be accurate.
I once ran down the high street to try and catch a bus. And a busker played the theme from Chariots of Fire to accompany my rapid pace. I truly felt the glory of that moment.
As a huge fan of both Barry Lyndon and Ran, I'm thoroughly amazed I'd never even heard of this debacle. Still, I'm glad you watched and dissected it, so I don't have to.
You're lucky. I rented it on vhs soon after it bombed.... a couple of hours I'll never get back.
The fact you don't have hair anymore probably affected us more than you
you have won an internet today, sir
Emiliano Arganaraz how
just look at the channel description.
A great and underrated film. Particularly now the director’s cut is available. And the score is truly wonderful.
Why in the voice over is Pacino using his own voice and not the Cockney one he did in the film? It's a jarring inconsistency.
I understand this movie, and damn sure shed a tear at the last scene, where Tom says goodbye to his son, and the movie sas melody starts to play. At this moment i understand what this movie was supposed to be.
Al Pacino whispering throughout the movie is not that different from his other movies. He wasnt miscast. But somebody messed up, not finishing the movie at the editing table, and forgetting to use or even film some scenes. For example Daisy and Tom chemistry shows up out of nowhere, and she wants to marry him. It is like they missed their first few conversations... or was he just that handsome?
So i get the movie. It’s like Mel Gibson’s Patriot if it were filmed in 1985 and someone fcked up the direction and editing.... i m sure Ronald Emmerich stole a lot of things from this one. And i love the Patriot.
I love how menacing they showed the British to be at the opening New York battles. They did not explain how the Continental army managed to turn the tables around, but then again, it doesnt have to. This movie is from the perspective of Tom Dobb. And he found a new energy for war after saving his son, now all in, to beat the enemy and liberate their country.
This movie is not as bad as they say it is, far from it. But it in reality is a bunch of scenes thrown together... I can see Pacino’s struggle as a father, trying to keep his son alive and safe. Donald Sutherland character is a good smug British and the other posh Englishman is just a complete douche.
Watch it. Not many movies about the Revolution exist. It is a hard area to tackle.
The word "dunkachino" makes me sad every time I hear it.
Al Pacino is from the future in this movie.
but not in the late 00's voice over.
Nothing sadder than a gorgeously shot, well acted film without a compelling story.
The collapse of Goldcrest also meant the final season of Robin Of Sherwood didn't get made as they were it's major financial backer. The third season hadn't been all that great but it's still sad the series never got a proper ending.
ROS is *the* DEFINITIVE Robin Hood of all time, if you ask me. "Prince Of Thieves", indeed, RH NEVER hae a Moor in the band before ROS!
One of the minor nit picks. You can really tell that this was filmed in the UK. THere's just something about Britain that doesn't work as the Americas. Especially the Long Island Battle (not a single tree in sight, ditto for Yorktown. The shear scale and untamed wilderness on the edge of even the big cities does not come through and then you get a drawing room drama (and not a good one). There is a good movie about Revolutionary New York to be made (probably the largest concentration of loyalists in the Colonies, but a city full of spies)., It literally took 200 years to figure out who some of Washington's chief agents had been And after 78' no major movements inland at all. That could make an interesting film,
I have always LOVED Revolution. I've seen it many times. I don't even mind how oddball everyone's accents are. I wish they'd spent more time in editing and sound editing. But the plot is great!
The plot is really quite insipid
Your content really is getting better and better, Georg. I enjoy this channel a lot.
I love these break down videos. The way you talk about them in a serious but joking manner is just perfect.
Thanks and keep them coming
This looks like a somewhat similar case with Heaven's Gate.
My thoughts exactly!
Yeah two gorgeous films with great actors and directors that are insanely boring
I gotta say; I like this channel so much I even like to watch his break downs of films I have ZERO interest in otherwise. Kudos to you. Keep up the good work.
11:46 That voiceover!!! People who say the Blade Runner voiceover was bad need to listen to this, just to get some context.
And it sounds like Pacino decades (and smoking damage) later.
LOL! You refer to this movie as a movie very few have heard of. The last time I heard of this movie was my sophomore year of high school where the teacher showed it. If it wasn't for your channel I never would have heard of it prior!
I can't tell when your hair ends and the background begins
Utterly unrelated, but I feel compelled to remark upon the way in which your profile picture distinguishes you as a man of unimpeachable taste. Good show, good sir, good show!
This is why three-point lighting was invented
TheSuperQuail Then I'd have egg on my face. In case he decides to do that, I wish to clarify that at the time of commenting, his profile picture is either a work of fanart or a colorization of a panel featuring the Berserker Armor from Kentaro Miura's Berserk. It is not for the feint of heart, but if you're fine with depictions of truly horrible actions in fiction, you'll find one of the greatest action fantasy epics of all time waiting for you. Go read it! It's great!
The anime's shit, though. Don't watch it.
I'll probably never change it people keep complimenting it and it's nice.
Poirot's Mustache wow wow mate I think the anime was at least decent,really liked it at the time,although I was about 13 then
The RUclips subtitles can't make out what Pacino says either!
no surprise there!! lol
I think this is your best video. Very detailed, interesting and intelligently presented. Utterly fascinating subject too. Fantastic work.
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So, I was actually in this movie and I don't know how it turned out like it did. The script was good, the production value was good. I think the actors were good. It seems like it just... ran out of money or something near the end of production. I recall seeing this in the movie theater just before Christmas '85 and recall that it looked unfinished. It was heavily edited and what I saw looked...well, looked like dailies. It just didn't look polished or finished. It was....gritty. Dirty. While I get that was a cinematic choice (as it was certainly that way when filming it) I guess it was somehow going to look more polished than it did when it came out. I can tell you no expense was spared in set design and costumes and extras. The production was HUGE. Sorry to see that what actually was delivered fell so short though. Oh well.
Good for you for going with the buzz cut, it looks great.
Hugh Hudson is such an underrated talent who should have directed much more bigger films over his career it’s a shame few people know his name as he is such a talented director and we need more people like him today to tackle films with such a grand scope but with central character relationships.
It was Revolution that finally turned me against my 10th grade World History teacher. He had been showing us "period" films all year to supplement his completely inadequate teaching. I had never heard of it and was curious but by the second day of it I was offended that he would pick such an obviously horrible film. I spent a lot of time in that class playing Tetris on a TI-83+.
Hugh Hudson was the Golden boy of 1980s British Cinema. He came up with good stuff in the decade most famous being Chariots of Fire and other projects. Revolution probably led to his downfall in the movie industry except for a memorable much acclaimed British Airways ad later in the decade with Yanni as composer as his swansong from the decade and probably from film making. Even Revolution had some good parts. Hugh Hudson was clearly a very talented director but after Revolution his star faded into oblivion. He never quite lived up to his billing as the British Steven Spielberg of the 1980s. Clearly Spielberg had more success during and since. But we should not forget Hugh Hudson as being one of those very talented artists who made the 1980s such a memorable decade for entertainment.
I know you had a lot of comments about the hair. But i must say, I'll miss it. It added a lot to your character, and helped your facial expressions have more depth, as dumb as that'll sound. How ever, great video as always. Never stop!
You set the bar really high with these videos. Is Rob Ager a fan?
A lot of video stores carried Revolution in the 90's, and that's how and when I saw it. It was certainly flawed. The story jumped around, the character development was uneven, and Nastassja Kinski's character was completely pointless. But I liked Revolution because it felt really faithful to the history. There are surprisingly few movies set during the American revolution, and almost all of them are dumb action propaganda pieces like The Patriot. I loved that the revolutionaries lost the first battle in this movie because they had terrible discipline. (Most movies set during this war treat them like they're ninjas). And I love that the Continental Congress jerked the main character around just as much as the British did. I thought the scene in the end where Pacino says, essentially, if you think I'm going to stop fighting for my rights just because the British are gone, you're crazy- was genuinely moving.
I gotta admit, it's a guilty pleasure of mine. I like it. I don't know why, but I do.
Thanks for doing this. I was thinking about this movie the other day and why I'd never seen anything about it. I'd love to see a full-on review series of the high budget historical epic 80s Oscar bait movies that no one watches or talks about anymore. There were a ton.
Well done Georg. Enjoyed this well deserved roast. If you’ve not looked into it, there’s a book called The Devil’s Candy that could provide you with subject matter for another review in a similar lane. It features a director who was arguably bankable, a studio hungry for Oscar gold and box office windfalls and a cast of characters who, in the literary version by Tom Wolfe, were engaging and believable, but through ham-handed star casting forced by studio capos, ended up as little more than trite and exposed pretenders in this regrettable telling of yet another New York tale. I for one would welcome your take on another big budget Hollywood meltdown.
I worked on this film for a week in 1985 in Kings Lynn travelling from Lowestoft each day, I got to speak to Al Pacino but my biggest memory was talking to Robbie Coltrane, we discussed the set and he was saying that some of the buildings looked like they could be in Holland and looking back at my photo's he 's quite right, I asked him if he would be doing more of the sketch show, I think it was kick up the 80's, he said no he wanted to do other things, a lovely man who took the time to have a conversation with a bloke working on set, he got a couple of seconds on screen but who cares he went on to be Hagrid!
I love talking about these films: Big budget films that nobody watched and became completely lost. So much money and energy was spent to accomplish so little.
Kind of tempted to watch this now, I'm sure there's a drinking game in it somewhere! Looking good, Georg, thanks for the vid. Maybe flip the footage if it keeps getting copyright claims?
I remember renting this movie and watching it with my dad years ago. We both agreed it was awful. Pacino was terribly miscast. And since you mentioned it, the Patriot sucked too.
lol The Patriot was a MUCH better movie than this, even if it was cheesy as hell.
Argus: Yeah, you're right, but that isn't saying much. I actually wanted to like the Patriot but it had some glaring historical inaccuracies that made it way too much to swallow. The main character being a southern plantation owner who employs black men rather than owning them just isn't very plausible and is way too convenient to get us to identify with him, but just as I got past that there was the ridiculous wedding on the beech scene. The over the top savagery of the British villain Tavington was also hard to swallow for me, since I've read a lot of history about that war and the Brits were never so cruel as to lock people in churches and burn them alive (Southern colonists did use the war as an excuse to settle scores with feuding families, though, and did some horrible shit to each other). Tavington was based on the real life Tarleton, who was accused of murdering US POWs at one point, but the details of that incident are pretty hazy, and Tarleton went on to distinguished service in the Napoleonic wars in later years. Mel Gibson movies like that tend to be a bit preachy or polemic or whatever the proper word is for it, and that also sticks in my craw. But you are correct, they are all way more fun to watch than this POS.
The American War of independence is just... a terrible setting for a feature film. It was an extremely long an drawn out conflict, few had classic character motivations, and the style of battle of that time just seems inexplicable to a modern audience. It was a long war of attrition, it was a war where every year soldiers would quit being soldiers to bring in the harvest then go back to being soldiers again. The "Founding Fathers" are a great eclectic bunch to follow in a TV series, but as a setting for a love story or one person uninvolved in the history, it's just a bad idea.
The Patriot is an action movie first and foremost, I think it's a pretty good one. I mean it is directed by Roland Emmerich after all.
@Gary Daniel Well, the fighting in the Carolinas in real life led almost directly to the siege of Yorktown. In the Patriot, the climactic battle scene was a combination of two real life Battle of Cowpens and the Battle of Guilford Courthouse. The Americans won at Cowpens, basically wiping out Tarleton's horse unit in the process, and had to yield the field at Guilford, but got away with light losses. The campaign had Corwallis chasing the American forces under Gen. Greene around the back country and wore him down, eventually prompting him to head for Wilmington, NC and later Yorktown, VA on the coast where he could link up with the Royal Navy for supplies and reinforcements. Washington saw him heading for Yorktown, and had the French admiral Comte De Grasse intercept and defeat the Royal Navy's attempt to move troops from New York to Yorktown. Washington laid siege to Cornwallis, who was forced to surrender since no help was coming for him.
I respect you Georg but everything you put forward as bad points are the things that made this film interesting, worth watching, unique and why I love it. Never boring, always surprising. And that scene with Richard O'Brien, I mean just look at those giant wigs the ladies had on, just incredible, hilariously absurd. You're spot on about the Director's cut though.
Thanks for reminding me of Ran. That film was fucking amazing. I have to watch it again soon
Assiman Never mind Ran, check out Kagemusha. Amazing film!
Kagemusha is amazing, but Ran is what I consider to be Kurosawa's magnum opus. It's not as easy of a watch as his golden age -stuff, in fact it's quite demanding - and it starts really slow.. But if you stick with it, you'll be rewarded unlike very few other films can reward you. Doesn't hurt that you could pretty much hang any frame of the film on your wall and you'd have a masterpiece of art, although that's true for Kagemusha as well. Tatsuya Nakadai does stellar job as the lead in both movies. He's great in other stuff than Kurosawa too; The Sword of Doom, Harakiri, Kwaidan. My favourite Japanese actor, even above Mifune!
Oh, and those last two films I mentioned reminded me: if you're a fan of Kurosawa, but never saw a film from Masaki Kobayashi, *get your shit together asap!*
@@Horzuhammer You've talked me round, you persuasive devil!
I actually saw this movie as a kid randomly on TV, "You don't need no grenade" is a quote from it that is randomly stuck in my head
3000+ new subs in two weeks?! Keep the good stuff coming!
George's shaved head > George's regular head
I said goodbye to my hair and its receding hairline, when I was 27, and I never looked back.
#Boldboizgang
Always better turning into the skid, than holding onto something
Im 31, and I still cling to it. Its my last bastion of fading youth
@Alexander Kolcev
Let it go, let it go
Can't grow it back anymore
Let it go, let it go
Say goodbye forever more
I don't care that my hair's gone away
Turn my clippers on
The sun never bothered me anyway
Yeah...
22 and the same hairstyle as the terminator skeleton, sadly the only thing we have in common...
Georg, you're back!.
And proud! hair looks way better, takes years off you mate.
This is the most mature and sophisticated channel I watch on youtube and the comment section reflects that.
Seriously though im glad its a joyful comment section and not an overtly pissy one like im used to seeing.
I had forgotten this movie completely. I did go to see it. The only part I remember at all was the Yorktown battle and resolution between the fathers and sons on either side. I thought that was part of some overall story that got cut out somehow.
Man... So I was going to buy this movie. I've been playing Assassin's Creed III again and, living in Philadelphia, I tend to veer towards the American Revolution anyway. I finished John Adams - I sobbed, Lord I wept - and thought, hey, I remember this movie with Al Pacino that they made us watch twenty minutes of in school. I am so glad I didn't buy this. Lord. The way the British fop is depicted rivals the extras of Sofia Coppola's Marie-Antoinette. Great video; subscribed.
I was at collage in Kings Lynn when this was filmed, I stood behind Annie Lennox in a que in Boots.
What is this music at 3:30 ? Feels like its from something
0:23 Does Al Pacino say:
A) Pass the sausage
B) Keyser Söze
C) Curse the sauces
D) Hey! I'm walkin' here!
E) none of the above
Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro are two actors thoroughly unsuited for films set before the 20th Century. The Mission had some stellar performances (especially Jeremy Irons) and found a place for anti-hero DeNiro to shine during his physical performance in the desperate defense of the mission. I can't think of anything involving Pacino in Revolution that worked. Watching Natassja Kinski get sliced nearly propelled me out of the theater in 1985. Hell, she was better served in Cat People. Revolution doesn't even have a great David Bowie recording over the end credits...
I actually live about ten minutes away from the actual Yorktown Battlefield...I can assure you, it looks NOTHING like that.
Yeah I was at TRACEN Yorktown USCG...not a bit like the the actual park
And that final scene where Sutherland gets gunned down.... Where on the East coast would you find that topography?
Too many hair jokes down here. Luckily for Georg, he doesn't need any. If I shaved my head it would look three times as large! But anyway, I'll just take the high road and not even mention anything about hair. Great vid!!
Congratulations on not mentioning new hair. I must say, your comment was an inspiration to me as not once during its entire length did I even consider thinking about his hair. In fact, I shall take it as an inspiration to similarly not talk about the hair. I must say, I fee refreshed and invigorated already. Who would have ever guessed what a difference choosing not to talk about someone's hair would make in one's life? I never could have. Not until now. Yes, indeed, from the moment on, I shall never ever ever mention the hair again!
HerrNilssonTheMonkey Yeah, I do wish there were more comments relevant to the video since it was quite interesting like all of his videos. But, if ya can't beat'em, join'em. Lol
U guys are boring and don't understand memes. We come for his reviews and thoughts and stay for memes about hair and lava lamp.
@Conium Maculatum What's your point?
Is the new haircut a sign the lava lamp is taking over?
The lava lamp is the new dictator of the channel and that is the only legal haircut
_Barry Lyndumb_ . Every clip of _Revolution_ is a fireworks display of baffling creative decisions. _The Mission_ is a masterpiece that holds up in every way (a script by _Lawrence Of Arabia_ writer Robert Bolt helps) and I remember 1986 - the film's soundtrack was better known than the film itself. Very little promotion of the movie.
Is that the same Robert Bolt of Man for all Seasons? That film is my favorite of all time (the original).
very strange film. very strange.
Maybe. Who am I to judge?
*rather*
Saying that Al Pacino was miscast in this movie feels like one of the all-time great understatements.
I remember this movie. I wanted to see it then! Thanks for posting
3:35 - What's that music?
I paid way too much for a VHS of the original cut. Still sealed, haven't actually seen it yet.
That's pretty funny! Maybe you can sell it to a die-hard fan of the film?
@@siasti The Victorville Film Archive would be very interested, I'm sure.
I'm not sure what's going on with your lava lamp at 4:00 but I'm envious of it.
Yer reviews are pretty damned good man... I dont know why but I'd love to see your take on Mars Attacks.
12:15 gonna need a bigger book,,,,
He's doing it with the wrong kind of book! Hard cover, not soft!
3:29 is that a madness from new grounds reference?
Years ago I watched it on HBO one night.
Fell asleep before the end.
Why the eye rolling at 11:06? Just curious.
The Mission is actually a good movie.... it really is.
MpowerdAPE I dont like that film because it had so much wasted potential. i have a list of things that would have improved the film
directed by leone?
The Mission is a great film Roland Joffe only made two great films The Mission and The Killing Fields.
Have to admit, I've never heard of this movie nor seen it. Why is that? I'm betting that your critique & explanation of this movie is the answer to that question. Boy it was hard to get through this one
Get your facts right! Chariots of Fire won four Oscars as you say (Film, Screenplay, Musical Score & Costume Design), but not for Director, Hugh Hudson. The Best Director Oscar that year went to Warren Beatty for Reds.
This is one of the few films I knew of while it was made, but I have never seen. Some of the scenes were shot on location on the island I lived on as a child here in Norway. My sister, who was 14 at the time, went with her school friends to the airport to get a glimpse of the movie stars before they were whisked away in cars. I don't know which scenes they were, but the scene in the woods with the Indian had the right flora, with birches and ferns.
Most of it was shot in King's Lynn I remember being an extra on that film.
3:37 name of the song?
Still wanna know? I found it
Hudson didn't win an Oscar for Chariots of Fire. Warren - Always the Best - Beatty won for "Reds".
Makes a deeply thoughtful video with a very discerning breakdown of an interesting topic. Nuggets are obsessed with his hair. This is why grownups don't youtube.
3:35 can someone explain the reference I'm not getting there with the two girls?
ruclips.net/video/rvYZRskNV3w/видео.html, not girl related, just madness
parts of this were filmed in kings lynn -my hometown!
we just had armando ianucci in town doing a dickens adaptation too!
wow and you've just mentioned us!
You look so smooth. Too smooth.
If anyone wants to see a very good depiction of the main players of the American Revolution, I highly recommend the first four episodes of HBO's John Adams. It's light on battle scenes, but it shows the nuances and the context of events that led to the Revolution - the treatment of colonists; the Boston Massacre and the subsequent lock down of Boston; the arguing and backbiting in Philadelphia; the failed attempt at peace with King George known as the Olive Branch Petition, and so on. The rest of the series is great, but it focuses on the early American government and the earliest split between parties and personalities, as well as the rest of the life of John Adams. Laura Linney as Abigail Adams makes Abigail Adams bae.
Where can I download this movie?
I think it's a good movie
-& very underrated but it was pretty accurate with details.. this father had so much for his son and it was really really touching. The one young lady who was for the revolution and her entire family were Tories, & the young woman humiliated her mother after the British took New York and her family threw a party... Her mom told her that if she was pro revolutionary, and continue to be so that she couldn't be a part of the family. That right there just wrenched my stomach to pieces.
20:24 I knew it, knew it, knew it!
Welcome back.
I will say that the film looks beautiful. Tis a shame it couldn’t garner a comparable script.
19:10 I would agree. THE MISSION is an awesome film!
Another fantastic video sir!
Great review, this film ranks as one of my "Most Interesting Failures" only to be suggested to a serious film buff. British director, leading man known as one of the great Italian-American actors playing the colonial lead, German actress playing leading lady. The American rebels are far from idealized, while the British seem so inbred one wonders how they can find their way across an ocean. In a way, Sutherland's role reminds me a bit of his performance in 1900, very strangely miscast but only memorable because it is him. One thing I have never seen pointed out was the element that The Patriot latter made good use of in melting down toy soldiers into musket balls. I did not realize the production was rushed to be Oscar-Bait, it makes more sense in that context.
You should do 'The English Patient' some time.
Where’s the podcast at????
Loving the new barnet, Georg!
This movie had a huge impact on me. It "works" just fine. No need to dismiss it like that.
I believe Einstein here is missing the point of this movie. The scenes are very realistic. British officers were quartered with Yankee families, resulting in quite often times, mass friction, as all unwanted house guests quite often do. They wore white powdered wigs because many had syphilis, which resulted in hair loss. They were often cruel and tyrannical towards their soldiers, simply because they could without any hesitation. This was the seventeen hundreds, and life was dirty, unwashed, cruel, and vindictive. Just like today.
The battle scenes again were spot on the money. Imagine having to march towards people firing at you, wearing dirty, filthy, uniforms, in a body where many soldiers had not washed in months or even years. Like a mass group of hardcore homeless guys, add in the worst dregs of criminal life, murders, rapos, drunkards, all the above. Then add on more boozing, more brutality, no soap, no shampoo, more lice, more filth, more syphilis, more disease, and walla, welcome to the life of a British soldier in the seventeen hundreds
Pachino was simply miscast in this movie. I read that he went into a severe funk, as he had never been in a box office disaster before. But overall, I felt this movie never received the credit it deserved. It was an excellent movie portraying the gritty world of this era. Unlike other movies that show nicely clean uniforms, and happy productive people. It was a very complicated world in those times, similar to now, only human rights were never an issue. Lives were brutally short, and quite often violent with attacks on the frontier from hostile natives. No welfare, unemployment cheques, relief cheques, disability cheques, old age pensions, company pensions, nada, nothing. In those days, you were on your own.
The camera work is very shaky
Whats with the lamp around 9 minutes? Is it some Freudian slip? =)
7:08 Iroquois is pronouned EAR-uh-koi, not uh-ROW-kees. Anyway, I liked this video, but I don't understand a lot of your side comments.
I was aghast when I realized what he meant a few sentences later. Wouldn't they have pronounced the word correctly in the film?
That's all you're good for loser, to correct people! You'll work for free all your life for everyone else. WHAT A LOSER! hahahaahah
@@prezidenttrump5171 thanks for correcting me. You are clearly good for it.
@@bredmond812 That's all you're good for loser, to correct people! You'll work for free all your life for everyone else. WHAT A LOSER! hahahaahah
@@prezidenttrump5171 i dont really know what you are talking about. Work for free? what is that? Anyway, i hope you are ok, because you really dont sound grounded.
I remember Revolution being blamed for the collapse of the British film industry as after it came out it was almost impossible for film makers in Britain to get financing!!!
2:12 I suddenly feel inadequate as a man looking at that lava lamp.
The hand held camera-ness doesn't fit the subject matter. Nor can Al Pacino play anything but a contemporary Italian-American from New York City. He seems like a time traveller. I don't think Sutherland was speaking english, or he was very drunk.
Nah, he's just a Northerner.
I think Sutherland is meant to be a Yorkshireman, hard to tell, his accent is so bad. Hes a great actor but totally miscast here. Patrick Stewart would have been a much better choice but he was less well known then.
I must be the only dude who went to the cinema TWICE to see this movie... :) I was 15 by then. You are right in your criticism. But I loved the first battle scene and the drum and fife music SO MUCH ... By the way, that was the first time I hever heard the "British Granadiers" march and have NEVER found any better performance of it. Same with "Lilly Burlero". I saw the film dubbed into Spanish, so accents were not an issue (but for the dick-stabbed Brit officer, who was über-gayish anyway) And you are also right about the lack of publicity. There was almost NO marketing campaign. A handful of TV ads for two or three days, which is almost nothing. I only went to see it the first time because i am a war-movie freak and this historic period was new for me right then.
Well done I enjoyed this thanks
Minus the money lost and the bomb reputation, I got a very Heaven's Gate feel to the scenes. I think it was the choice for very long shots, to make the scenes become a character. I didn't think HG was all the bad but then again, I watched it at home, put it on pause several times and came back to it with a sandwich and a determination to finish it. Some how I get that this film may take the same resolve.