From Here to Eternity

Cinema Paco 2: Image 3.5/5 Sound 3.25/5. Great classic with great story and actors. That kiss on the beach licking, mythical

Some great performances and good cinematography make this worth watching. A little too melodramatic.

Yeah... I found that a chore to sit through, unsurprisingly there's great performances especially from Cliff and Lancaster, but it just drags with snore-inducing melodrama. I also find it endlessly hilarious that this movie is showered with critical praise, but then something like Pearl Harbor is completely derided. It's basically the same movie!

This is a bewildering picture for me--filled with actors I love (God, Deborah Kerr) and ahead of its time in terms of the Production Code, there's something about it that just doesn't connect with me. I think it primarily has to do with the military setting and the Pearl Harbor backdrop, which I think is meant to feel epic in scope but feels like an awkward distraction to me. I wish I could put my finger on why this doesn't work for me.

I wanted to see this movie for a long time, but I had given it the right time and in the best condition. But it did not meet my expectations. The film, with its many mythical actors and many awards, seems to have lost its color and smell after 70 years of its production, and only a nostalgic feeling towards the actors remains.

That Robert E. Lee final line aged the worst in a post George Floyd world. Yikes.