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[rm]

My only quasi-coherent review of The Good Shepherd:
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976860711



Now, who can I lure to Thursday's Barn Dance?
http://www.nycbarndance.com/

Comments

[feyandstrange.livejournal.com]

Oh, good, the movie doesn't totally suck. Since I kind of have to see it...

[rm.livejournal.com]

It's very, very well-made. it really only doesn't work because it tantilizes yu with tings it doesn't deliver on. It also forces women into a story that isn't about women, and therefore you're like "right and now Angelina Jolie cries, moving along."

[feyandstrange.livejournal.com]

Well, I figured they didn't manage to fit Julia Child in anywhere. And I expect there's more emotional drama and less spy history than I'd really prefer. But I'm sort of compelled to see anything spy-history at some point. Even if the only damn women it mentions are all "wives" and are only there to whine.

ALso, could care less about Bay of Pigs, very tired of that part already, did they just ignore all the amazing work done in WWII? Oh, right, this is about moral conflict. Bah. It'd be nice if they occasionally bothered to remind anybody that there's good deeds done with that moral conflict stuff and not all horrors.

I'm still hoping that Wolves At The Door will get made into a (good)movie, because Virginia Hall has been a personal hero for a very long time, and it'd be a hell of a movie and a hell of a role.

[rm.livejournal.com]

The WWII stuff is very non-specific, although there's some of that. The early stuff, at yale, as I said, is amazing. The Bay of Pigs stuff is pretty blah. Consistently, the film has moments that are great, but it relies on editing for drama rather than drama in too many places.