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Originally Posted by cXs808
Just watched Se7en (Seven)
9/10
what a great movie, i still can't get over it
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I've always found that to be an overrated film. By no means is it bad, but I've watched it three times and never been blown away like so many other people have.
And Kevin Spacey wasn't that special, either, IMO. The construction of the end was great, but his performance wasn't this bone-chilling performance some people make it out to be.
And I watched Fred Zinneman's (
Day of the Jackal) 1948 Holocaust film
The Search (1948)
The film starred Montgomery Clift as a G.I. who comes across a hungry child. He gives him his sandwich and then takes him back to his place and tries to find out who the kid is, where he came from, and if he has any family.
It's a marvelous film and the first time my expectations were actually exceeded with a Holocaust films. I'm used to being disappointed (
Schindler's List and
The Pianist) but this film was so great, especially because it deals with the subject matter from a child's point of view, and I don't know that there's been a Holocaust film that's dealt with the impact the events of that time period had on the kids who watched their siblings and parents and friends get taken away and/or killed.
Highly recommend it.
Also: Montgomery Clift might possibly be the most underrated actor ever. Everybody loves Brando, but anybody who knows classic film knows Clift was Brando before Brando.