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Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2000 3:09
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Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Upgrades
Hi All:
Just went and seen U-571 with a buddy I work
with. Don't bother going to see it guys. Wait till it comes out on
video. It reminds me of "The Thin Red Line" that came out on the heels
of "Saving Private Ryan". Private Ryan had an ongoing plot with the
accompaning emotional scenes of joking, crying, and reminiscing with strategic
interruptions of hellish violence that seemed to occur naturally and
expected. "The Thin Red Line" had no plot. It was as if someone
said, "hey, let's make a WW2 movie in a WW2 setting with lots of emotional
scenes". Thing is, they forgot to add a plot to carry it
along!
U-571 unfortunantly seems to have suffered the
same fate. "Hey, let's make a submarine movie with all the accompaning
emotional and heroic aspects, except let's forget about a good plot. Hell, the
fact that Jon Bon Jovi is in it should be reason enough for people to come out
in droves to see it".
Oh what a disappointment. And to think I
interrupted a perfectly good weekend drinking binge at 12:30PM Sat.
afterhangover to see this. A group of us could have done just as good a
job with a few camcorders inside the U-boat at the Chicago Center of Science
and Industry with Carston in the place of Jon B. Jovi (no offense intended
Carsten) along with LightWave software.
Still, they did manage to bring the Type-VIIC
back to life which was very satisfying.
Wait till it comes out on video,
Big
Dave