Watching "Cross of Iron"
I watched Sam Peckinpah's
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on a quiet Sunday evening and thought it just okay. I recently
watched a Peckinpah retrospective on cable and it mentioned his last
few films weren't really ones he made while at the top of his game.
And
Cross of Iron is one of his last and it felt very over
done. His trademarked slow motion killings all seemed forced and a
little out of place in a World War 2 film; that sort of movie making
works okay in a mythical Old West, but just doesn't seem to fit the
WW2 oevre. I also thought that it was typically Peckinpah to be
contrary and film a World War 2 movie from the German side, especially
during them getting their butts kicked towards the end of the Russian
campaign. I enjoyed James Cobrun
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and James Mason
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Maximilian Schell
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towards earning an
Iron Cross.
Posted by jdarnold at November 2, 2004 11:27 AM
