You should see it, Blixa. It's very well done. The acting is superb. Spielberg did Amistad and it was quite good (just my opinion). Lincoln is similar, only a bit better. I didn't see any 'sticky sentimentality' at all. I'm not sure where madeleine is coming from.
could not stand amistad. I really dislike spielberg pretty entirely. (jaws is the exception)
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You should see it, Blixa. It's very well done. The acting is superb. Spielberg did Amistad and it was quite good (just my opinion). Lincoln is similar, only a bit better. I didn't see any 'sticky sentimentality' at all. I'm not sure where madeleine is coming from.
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I was trying to come up with just one scene as an example, but really, it's the whole script, from beginning to end.
I'm not saying that is bad. Just, not my thing.
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Blixa wrote: could not stand amistad. I really dislike spielberg pretty entirely. (jaws is the exception)
E.T. !
I heart kitschy sci fi.
Being a Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction -Pope Benedict XVI
Me too! What's up with that? I have seen it on TV many times and could never sit still for it. I probably have only seen ten minutes of it after all this time.
Quasimodo wrote:You should see it, Blixa. It's very well done. The acting is superb. Spielberg did Amistad and it was quite good (just my opinion). Lincoln is similar, only a bit better. I didn't see any 'sticky sentimentality' at all. I'm not sure where madeleine is coming from.
You didn't think that bit at the beginning where those two white and one black soldier were gazing lovingly up at Lincoln and reciting the Gettysburg Address from memory counts? I did.
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Quasimodo wrote:You should see it, Blixa. It's very well done. The acting is superb. Spielberg did Amistad and it was quite good (just my opinion). Lincoln is similar, only a bit better. I didn't see any 'sticky sentimentality' at all. I'm not sure where madeleine is coming from.
You didn't think that bit at the beginning where those two white and one black soldier were gazing lovingly up at Lincoln and reciting the Gettysburg Address from memory counts? I did.
OK, maybe that was a little contrived. I don't think it detracted from the historical nature of the film in general. If the movie dealt exclusively with the political intrigue revolving around the 13th amendment we would have all been asleep by the end.
I liked it.
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