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Author Topic: The Great Raid (2005) Sam Graham AKA: "The Evil Sam Graham". Wackiness ensues. Posts: 1431 From: Waukee, IA Registered: Dec 2004 posted 08-15-2005 08:21 PM                        CINEMA: Colorado Cinemas Colony Square 12, Louisville, CO AUDITORIUM: 3 PRESENTATION: Mystery Meat Digital (mostly) PRESENTATION PROBLEMS: Audio cut in and out for about a ten minute stretch, then was analog for awhile RATING: Three stars (out of four) The Screenvision pre-show video was the clearest and sharpest video I’ve seen on a movie screen yet. Too bad nobody thought to turn the sound on for it. Oooh! Blue dots are soothing. This is an old Mann plex that was slope last time I was here. It had these ridiculous gray and blue faux columns up and down the auditorium walls with backlit metal winged star sconces and a fiber-optic sparkler effect. Really obnoxious. It’s all still here, but the fiber optics are no longer in operation. Oh...There’s stadium seating now. Hey! These seats are numbered! What the heck... “The Great Raid” is based on an actual mission to rescue over 500 US soldiers from a Japanese POW camp in World War II. This is NOT Hogan’s Heroes. As war movies go, this is a good one. It’s intimate, intense, and has a great soundtrack.  |  IP: Logged Don Anderson Master Film Handler Posts: 312 From: West Bend, WI, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 08-17-2005 01:29 AM                     Uhmmmm. Did we see the same movie?? I thought that this film was terrible. Screw the soundtrack, if I wanna hear music, I'll by the cd not see the movie. Boring film. Why can't stuff like this go directly to video????  |  IP: Logged Paul Linfesty Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1383 From: Bakersfield, CA, USA Registered: Nov 1999 posted 08-17-2005 10:04 AM                     quote: Don Anderson Why can't stuff like this go directly to video???? Ordinarily, it would have (this was a shelf-sitter for 2 years). But Miramax is dumping a lot of shelved movies between now and September 30, when the Weinstein brothers' contract with Disney expires.  |  IP: Logged Jack Ondracek Film God Posts: 2348 From: Port Orchard, WA, USA Registered: Oct 2002 posted 08-18-2005 11:23 AM                        The first two posts illustrate why it's hard to take a critic seriously!  |  IP: Logged

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