I guess as a Brit and not a very religious one at that I simply dont understand the offence taken to it. As far as I can tell theres little in the film that either wasnt already in the Bible or that hasnt been written/spoken before rather than come directly from the pen of Mel Gibson and it seems that a lot of the main protest was the effect that any inaccuracies and such a graphic storytelling of Jesus' torture by Jewish soldiers could have on attitudes towards Jews even now.

I understand some of the "concerns" but I fail to see how any of it was anti - Semitic. Maybe I'm overlooking a lot, I dont know.

Yeah, that's basically what I said. I didn't see anything anti-semitic about it.

Oh I know, i just quoted you because you were the last one to post anything :beer:

You don't quote the post above you n00bzorz....;)

It's just habit really.

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8.5/10

+10 for the first half
-2 for the last half
+.5 for the asian hooker scene

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Huge cast, great director, shite film. Still, it lead to a fascinating wikipedia trawl afterwards; the film accounts what was a failed but daring attempt to end the war and the biggest ever parachute drop behind enemy lines. It took place around the occupied Netherlands in late 1944 when Nazi forces were on the retreat.
It's always nice to see a WW2 movie where the British contribution, working alongside the US, is recognized without us being reduced to tea-drinking caricatures (that would be the British director then).

Lots of shots of Michael Caine driving around in a little tank. Ryan O'Neal is a good actor (for evidence of this see Kubrick's Barry Lyndon, just re-released infact) but was far too young to be cast as a general commanding thousands of American troops. Gene Hackman, for some reason, is cast as a Pole and his attempt at an accent was hard to watch.

aside from the fact they weren't polish, i thought it was pretty rad.

Polish? K....>.>

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The Fall (2006)

Beautiful film. And the little girl was great.