Series and Movies - Entertainment for the Darkness

[Wappie]

@itarumaa you can safely finish White Lotus. The second season is even better than the first, and the third is also worth watching.

[Sijoittaja-alokas]

@Sijoittaja-alokas

I started watching a movie called Twelve O’Clock High, apparently quite a highly acclaimed film. It stars a remarkably handsome and charismatic man, Gregory Peck, who was reportedly also a pleasant person—I can’t comment on that, but I do know he was an excellent actor.

Go ahead and give it a watch if you have nothing else to do.

In this double Oscar-winning film, a hard-as-nails general takes command of a bomber unit suffering from bad luck and low morale in WWII-era England. Starring: Gregory Peck, Dean Jagger. Directed by: Henry King. (Twelve O’Clock High, USA 1949)

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EDIT:

At the beginning of the film, it mentioned that the flight scenes (Alokas note: mostly?) used real footage from the U.S. Army and the German Luftwaffe.

A great movie; no blustering, no preaching, or other pathos—it doesn’t glorify war, etc.

A different kind of film, though not an odd one—unsurprisingly, Gregory Peck knew his role well, and the others performed excellently too. In terms of charisma, he is on the same level as Steve McQueen, who was about fourteen years his junior.

It certainly added depth to the film that the battle scenes heavily utilized the aforementioned U.S. and Luftwaffe footage.

The movie lacked the excessive theatricality of old films or the cookie-cutter “Hollywood-style” consistency familiar from modern movies. In a way, there weren’t sudden or surprising twists; things just moved forward as they were meant to… probably quite realistic for a movie. Additionally, I think it portrayed the feelings and challenges of military leadership beautifully—not by over-dramatizing, but by showing them as they were—genuinely dramatic (or so I would assume).

Definitely a movie worth watching for most people—perhaps not suitable for the more aggressive, blustering types who seek a sense of victimhood or those who want something constantly happening in a film.