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The Night Flier (1997)
bloody awful
The movie version was childish and plain awful. The acting was terrible. Everything was overdone. The short story version was MUCH BETTER, more subtle, less blatant. The movie is just alround bad. Kids and teens may get a scare out of it, but if you're grownup and you have a few marbles and have read the short story, you won't like the movie.
Too much narrative and dialog was copied straight out of the short story. The movie could have been so much better, even as a Halloween thriller.
Believe me, the short story version is far superior. Some of you, judging from the comments, are semi-literate, so you may want to brush up on reading, then have a go at the short story.
Enemy at the Gates (2001)
this movie fundamentally sucks
My mistake was in reading so much history before seeing "Enemy At The Gates". To me it's just one more piece of Hollywood garbage dressed up as history. The movie would have you believe that the war hinged on the outcome of the duel between the snipers. It did NOT. Nor was there a Major Konig. There is no mention of such a person in any records of the German armed services, including Waffen SS. It was pure myth. And Hollywood, bumbling liar that it is, simply took the myth to new levels of absurdity.
Real German and Russian actors might have helped but I doubt it.
I give this "film" a 4 for paying some attention to smaller details. But subtract 6 for getting the basic history wrong.
Note that the movie totally ignores what was happening militarily outside of Stalingrad... the plans being drawn up for the encirclement of the 6th Army (operations Uranus, Saturn, Mars).
Snipers helped in the defeat of the Nazis but the word is *helped*. They were not the deciding factor.
To all Hollywood directors-- stay the h*ll out of the history genre. You stink at it.