After having watched only recently Corbucci’s The Great Silence, I thought I’d give this one a shot too, half expecting to see another great classic. Unfortunately, it all fell a bit flat. I didn’t care much for the characters, the so-called cause seemed unimportant even to the characters themselves and all in all, it just felt like a run-of-the-mill Western with little to no depth to it. Entertaining, yes, but not memorable.
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Train of Life 1998
I still don’t quite understand how this movie got passed over (and to this day basically ignored) for movies such as “Life Is Beautiful” or any other movie on the subject. Not when I first watched it 20 years ago, not now, not ever.
Never have I laughed so full heartedly and cried so bitterly with any other movie. One of my top 10.
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Night Train to Lisbon 2013
Browsing through Amazon I came across this movie and really didn’t know what to expect. I saw the cast, read “night train” and thought “What could go wrong?” if not a small gem, it would at least make for some decent Saturday entertainment. Unfortunately, I was wrong.
Night Train to Lisbon is an attempt to make sense of and come to terms with the Portuguese dictatorship through the memoirs of an innocent by-stander, who had some emotional connection to members…
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