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Directed by: John Sturges Starring: Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough t-l-d-r summary: Allies try to escape from a Nazi POW camp. Not a movie that's great because of any innovative plot style, or special effects, or acting tour-de-forces. It's a movie that's just great, with a nicely done straightforward plot, good acting, good pacing, and so on. This has something for everyone. Highly recommended. RATING: 5 PROS: Action! Drama! Nazis! Baseballs bounced on walls! CONS: Might be too long for you; too lighthearted to be really gripping ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057115
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Jun 25, 2004 19:09
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If I'm not mistaken, a lot of this movie was based on real events. Either way, it's one of my all-time favorites. I'm old enough to recall seeing this at the cinema when I was a kid. I remember the men in the audience cheering when McQueen jumps the barbed-wire fence on the motorcycle.  Great flick. 5 for you Great Escape.
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Jun 25, 2004 21:44
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definitely a 5. one of the greatest war movies ever made (well its a classic thats for sure). and it completely reinforces the fact, steve mcqueen is THE man and we shall all bow down to him.
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Jun 25, 2004 23:08
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A truely awesome movie. Even if you factor out Steve McQueen, the rest of the cast are wonderful too. One of the quintessential World War Two movies. 5/5 Max Nitwit fucked around with this message at 13:05 on Sep 13, 2006 |
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Jun 27, 2004 11:05
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I love this movie, it is my favorite war movie as well. I like the music especially, the main theme is so memorable. 5.0 Ridiculous fucked around with this message at 18:45 on Jul 6, 2005 |
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Jul 6, 2005 18:41
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how can you dislike steve mcqueen? he is just a fuckin bad rear end. this movie can show it's age at times but is a great watch. 4.5/5
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Sep 2, 2006 06:33
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I first "discovered" this movie about 3 years ago and loved it immediatly. The first week after I bought it I had seen it 4 times showing it to friends who were oblivious to its awsomeness. Steve Mcqueen did his own motorcycling and the whole scene got me into motorcycling. I only wish I knew where to get a German bike like that! Also Richard Atenborough(sp!) is pretty good and reminds me of Anthony Hopkins. All star cast, which means mothing to most people anymore because alot of them are way before our time and/or dead but still awsome. The best WW2 movie of the time. 5.5/5 Buy it, it's cheap and more than worth it.
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Sep 19, 2006 06:34
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Best movie ever (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Sep 19, 2006 18:59
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This is one of my favorite "non war" war movies. My intro to TGE came when I was in the sixth grade, and our homeroom teacher *read* the Brickell's original book to us after lunch, one chapter at a time. (Minor Note: Paul Brickell, the author of "The Great Escape," was one of the guys whose job it was to distribute the soil about the camp. He was in on the project, but didn't get out the tunnel.) The film is a classic, even with the overblown work of Steve McQueen, who was convinced that *he* was the star and hero, and had to have "heroic" scenes. The special material in the two-disc DVD set has some wonderful documentary material on the making of the film, including interviews with many of the cast and several of them talk about McQueen's difficult moments. Although it *is* a longish film by today's standards, there is very little wasted material as the film zips by. You don't *feel* like the film is just being extended, as everything fits. It also gave us the "let's let the prisoners get out of the truck to stretch their legs" meme that still pops up (witness its use in the second episode of the thrid season of Battlestar Galactica).
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Oct 14, 2006 19:18
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bigpeeler posted:If I'm not mistaken, a lot of this movie was based on real events. Either way, it's one of my all-time favorites. I'm old enough to recall seeing this at the cinema when I was a kid. I remember the men in the audience cheering when McQueen jumps the barbed-wire fence on the motorcycle. Yes, it is. Google "Stalag Luft 3" for details. This is one of my favorite films of all time. I first saw this film in the theater back before the days of video, probably about 1974 or 75. It was a Saturday afternoon kiddie matinee at the local theater. They only showed G movies, and did not really care about what they showed as long as it was rated G. Every week the theater (Which was rather large, seating 500+) was full. On this particular week, I think I was the only kid who was actually paying attention to the film. It was a psychoacoustic moment for me, and turned me into a film buff. On a related note, paleontologist and battlefield archaeologist Professor Peter Doyle recently did a dig at the remains of the prison camp. They found some of the old tools, the remains of one of the tunnels, including the wooden supports and the Klim-can ventilator system for the tunnel. Genesplicer fucked around with this message at 09:56 on Dec 2, 2006 |
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