#SAM WATERSTON JOKE FROM CAPRICORN ONE MOVIE#
Now that this war movie formula has gone out of style, what was once stale now seems fresh to viewers like me who haven’t seen it all before. At the time, it was the most expensive movie ever made, and we have actual footage of Attenborough explaining why: Director Richard Attenborough knows the best way to convince an audience they’re watching a tank blowing up is to actually fucking blow a tank up, or at least fake it so well it’s impossible to tell the difference. It may not have had any of Star Wars ’ revolutionary miniature work and prosthetic makeup, but if anything, A Bridge Too Far is even more jawdropping. This one actually has the stars to back it up, though, so many that we don’t see Liv Ullmann and Laurence Olvier’s names until several pages into the credits.įor a while, it seems like this won’t be an action movie at all, with over a half hour that’s mostly just officers sitting in boardrooms discussing their plans - but when those officers are played by Anthony Hopkins, Sean Connery, and Michael Caine, you could do worse.īut when the action hits, it really hits. It’s a World War II epic that relies, like Airport, on star power to get asses in seats. If Star Wars revived old genres for a new audience, Bridge was the last gasp of a style of action filmmaking whose time had passed.
A Bridge Too Far doesn’t really have much in common with Star Wars, but in a way, that’s exactly what makes it so relevant here.
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