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my favorite "episode" from Band of Brothers is "Bastonge". if you've seen the series, it's the one that focuses on the medic character while they're running amuck in the frozen french/belgie countryside.
Saints and Soldiers has a lot of the same qualities. it's shot like the spielberg series, first of all, and it's got the same sort of pacing and melodrama. it mostly works too. it's a little over the top, but where it works, it works like gangbusters. it's a nice piece of work in the wwii panorama. normally i don't dig wwii stuff, but this has all the characteristics of something that gets my attention: average-joe soldiers (played by a buncha nobodies) caught up in impossible circumstances and making human choices/decisions which aren't always perfect ~ but they're doing the best they can. and there's snow. lots and lots of snow. i know: i have impossibly low standards for entertainment.
soldiers in snow is an automatic winner to me. and see, that's one thing you get in wwii that you don't get in the Civil War. because back then nobody was cack-headed enough to go fight in the snow. it's the one drawback of the whole war as a dramatic overture. i'm kidding of course, but i do miss the opportunity.
anyway, good flick, well made. not perfect, but thoroughly enjoyable, not gratuitous, and has some nice leitmotifs throughout about faith (which pay off in a subtle, nice way).
two thumbs up.
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in other news, i'm still evading real life. news at 10.
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do finish BoB ~ it's really really worth it. the episodes just get better'n better.
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