Marcel critically opined:
> It was interesting that the first film I have seen in awhile was Enemy at the
> Gates. Of course Hollywood just couldnt prevent itself from taking a
> perfectly good idea like two snipers in a warzone hunting each other down and
> mutate it into a "love" story with of course the obligatory screw scene. Only
> this time they screw in between two snoring old stinky men in a room filled
> with about a hundred old stinky men including one having a cigarette at the
> end of the room in an underground rat invested cavern. How romantic. Got to
> see her ass though. As Maurice Chevalier would say "But of course"
>
Right on, my brother. The first 10 minutes of Enemy at the Gates are very
good. Then go buy popcorn and don't come back. How anyone could have made the
siege of Stalingrad boring is impossible to fathom, but this movie does.
"Enemy" also missed all the irony of these two snipers in their own macho little
war meaning nothing while tens of thousands are dying all around them, which
actually impacted on the siege. And have scenes of death and war and
destruction ever looked so antiseptically clean? And that stupid, stupid
ending, letting the mother think her son was a traitor rather than the martyr
that he was.... oh well, Marcel and I are in agreement, avoid this flick.
(the Rev) Vince, playing Siskel to Marcel's Ebert
