Enemy at the Gates [Archive]

Ice

03-02-2006, 21:25

Thoughts on this film? I just really liked the beginning of it.

Blodrast

03-02-2006, 21:27

i thought it was ok. better than average. not much else to say, I guess - I'd take "Das Boot" or "Stalingrad" over it any day of the week.

Ice

03-02-2006, 23:08

i thought it was ok. better than average. not much else to say, I guess - I'd take "Das Boot" or "Stalingrad" over it any day of the week.

I just liked the "calm before the storm", when Vasili was riding on the train to Stalingrad.

matteus the inbred

03-03-2006, 11:32

i thought the accents were hilarious. and casting Bob Hoskins as Kruschev...genius.
not a bad film though. Ed Harris is usually very believable.

Fragony

03-03-2006, 11:47

Pretty decent movie. Especially the starting scene was spectacular, and Rachel (forgot last name) is a beauty of course. Still, I felt it was lacking something, the characters were a bit bland.

ajaxfetish

03-03-2006, 20:49

I liked it. I wonder how many movies America has made about World War II that don't have any American characters in them? In that sense I think it's a very good move recognizing that the war wasn't won in just Normandy.

Ajax

ShadesPanther

03-03-2006, 21:09

I think it was a British film with Hollywood backing or something like that.

ajaxfetish

03-03-2006, 22:17

Could very well be; I haven't really looked into it. That'd make the broader worldview a little less surprising, but still a good thing I think.

Ajax

Alexanderofmacedon

03-03-2006, 23:14

I think you're perty...

Philippus Flavius Homovallumus

03-04-2006, 00:05

Failrly certain it was British, given the number of Brit actors.

Good film but I'd take Das Boot, the series over anything else.

Bartix

03-06-2006, 11:05

I have physics related problem with this film:
If you are jumping, you follow parabolic like path in air.:book:
If you are then shot by bullet coming near perpendicular to plane of that parabolic path, effect will be adding component of velocity in direction of bullet while forward speed is not changed.:juggle2:

In film instead, you stop mid air and drop straight down like sack of cabbage.:oops:

matteus the inbred

03-06-2006, 11:39

I have physics related problem with this film:
If you are jumping, you follow parabolic like path in air.:book:
If you are then shot by bullet coming near perpendicular to plane of that parabolic path, effect will be adding component of velocity in direction of bullet while forward speed is not changed.:juggle2:

In film instead, you stop mid air and drop straight down like sack of cabbage.:oops:

that bit makes me laugh...:laugh4:

KrooK

03-06-2006, 23:26

Beginning is really good but then movie is getting worse and worse.
There is some big historical bugs. Germans don't do almost anything to civilians. Russian soldiers don't drink vodka or "spiryt" (96% alcohol). And I would forgot - they should fight mostly into winter.

Lehesu

03-07-2006, 03:02

Decent movie, although the entire premise is inaccurate. The book the film is based upon, War of the Rats, or something like that, was based on what turned out to be Russian propaganda.

Big_John

03-07-2006, 04:45

it was fun. the production was very good (i.e. art/set design, etc).

yesdachi

03-07-2006, 05:42

I liked it. Some of the “drama” BS could have been left out but the action and sets and such were great.