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 The Big Red One - The Reconstruction (2 DVDs)
Description: Genre: War & Western - War / Theatrical Release: 1980 / Director: Samuel Fuller / Actors: Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill ... / ... more  The Big Red One - The Reconstruction (2 DVDs) ... DVD released 02 May, 2005 at Warner Home Video / Features of the DVD: Box set, PAL, WidescreenNewest Review: ... exaggerated sense of reverence that I find quite hard to take in the Spielberg projects, perhaps because Fuller was making a ... more ... film about people he knew.
There's never any sense that the characters in the Big Red One are heroes, they're just ordinary guys trying to survive. In fact it's often quite callous in a way that would be unthinkable in a film made about World War 2 nowadays. It feels more relevant, more like a film about a current conflict - it doesn't turn the war into a museum piece like Spielberg does. Comparing the concentration camp scenes in this film and Band of Brothers is instructive; it takes a rather shallow artistic sen...more |
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The Big Red One - The Reconstruction (2 DVDs): "This is fictional life based on factual death" (848 words)
by hogsflesh - written on 01.03.08 (Very useful, 43 readings)
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A review of the DVD. In 1980 veteran director Sam Fuller's World War 2 movie, The Big Red One, was released. Based on Fuller's wartime experiences, it's a great film. But the version that was released was heavily cut down by the studio. In 2004 the reconstructed version, with almost an hour of restored material, was released. That's what you get on this DVD, and unlike the restored version of The Wicker Man, the extra footage is seamlessly integrated. (Bizarrely, this did actually find itself on an early version of the video nasties list in the UK; that's not why I like it, though.) We follow the fortunes of four young American riflemen ...
