MaestroReviews

Deb and I are artists, painters actually. We go see films as often as once a week. That's right, we go to the theater and sit in a dark room with strangers to see movies. We rarely rent. We like "little" movies, foreign and documentary films. We try to stay away from mainstream and blockbusters whenever possible, but a couple sneak in each year. We seek out the obscure. We try to avoid violent movies, and that really limits our choices, most film makers seem to think violence makes a story interesting.
I try not to give anything away in the reviews, but offer an honest reaction.
We rate them 1~10, 10 being highest.

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Monument Men

Deb 10    Me 10

We'd been waiting for this one for quite a while. We were both impressed with the documentary Rape of Europa and curious how this could translate to a mainstream film. Well, they did a pretty good job. I liked thinking that the actors chose to do the movie because they liked the story, which is basically about the many ways art is important in our society. They managed to make it entertaining and still keep it educational, they developed the personalities but not at the expense of story and most important to me, they didn't make the Nazis out to be any less despicable than they are. For an all star cast type of movie this one really felt like an independent close to the heart film.
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