10-20-2005, 07:46 AM
Best line -- "Don't tell him he's Jewish; he loves Christmas."
I love this type of film; the get up there on your high horse and risk what you personally value to fight against the powerful, corrupt, immoral bastards who've been trampling all over you from their own high horses. My only complaint was that it seemed a little too impersonal, a little too matter of fact, and because I already know the outcome of the story, like Titanic, the "stakes" were never all that high because I knew that eventually they'd eventually sink the boat (get to the scene where Larry Welch asks McCarthy "have you no decency?" I also disliked the casting of Ray Wise as Don Hollenbeck. Ray Wise always plays a bad guy that you enjoy hating; I saw the actor, not the character and I just couldn't dredge up any sympathy for him. I also felt like I ought to take a shower afterward: all the smoking going on in the film was historically accurate, but I could just imagine the reek!
I love this type of film; the get up there on your high horse and risk what you personally value to fight against the powerful, corrupt, immoral bastards who've been trampling all over you from their own high horses. My only complaint was that it seemed a little too impersonal, a little too matter of fact, and because I already know the outcome of the story, like Titanic, the "stakes" were never all that high because I knew that eventually they'd eventually sink the boat (get to the scene where Larry Welch asks McCarthy "have you no decency?" I also disliked the casting of Ray Wise as Don Hollenbeck. Ray Wise always plays a bad guy that you enjoy hating; I saw the actor, not the character and I just couldn't dredge up any sympathy for him. I also felt like I ought to take a shower afterward: all the smoking going on in the film was historically accurate, but I could just imagine the reek!