We also find no end of explosions, taking up minute after minute of what in another film would be valuable screen time. And that's not even counting the Polish general whose first scene is a Polish joke. No, I'm employing it all too seriously in its dictionary sense.īecause in William Goldman's screenplay, we find: aristocratic British generals (and their inevitable counterparts, good blokes in the ranks), boyish Americans, Germans who march about like wind-up dolls, happy-go-lucky Irish, and, yes, even the brave Dutch lady who takes the wounded into her house. And when I say the movie's filled with clichés, I'm not just throwing the word in for general effect. “A Bridge Too Far” marches glumly from one cliché to the next. ![]() “ Patton," with its clear understanding of the relationship between its events and its main character, was an intelligent war epic and money well spent. ![]() Epics give us a sense of vast events meaningfully in motion B movies repeat formulas.
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