I didn't really see how great this movie was. I love silent film, and
I'm pretty familiar with King Vidor's work (The Crowd is one of my
favorite movies) so understandably, I was looking forward very
much to see this. When I finally did, though, I just wasn't
impressed. John Gilbert and Rene Adore both gave very good
performances, but the story didn't make my care about either of
them, or any of the other characters, that much. Set in 1917 but
filmed in 1925, neither Vidor nor anybody else in connection with
the project seems to have made any effort to reconstruct the period
it is set in. Everything, the clothes and the cars, are current with
the year it was made in. Granted, this happens a lot in movies, but
a film like Wings made up for these sorts of anachronisms. That's
not my biggest complaint, but I think I'm justified in saying that. All
in all, it was a decent effort, but could have been better.
I'm pretty familiar with King Vidor's work (The Crowd is one of my
favorite movies) so understandably, I was looking forward very
much to see this. When I finally did, though, I just wasn't
impressed. John Gilbert and Rene Adore both gave very good
performances, but the story didn't make my care about either of
them, or any of the other characters, that much. Set in 1917 but
filmed in 1925, neither Vidor nor anybody else in connection with
the project seems to have made any effort to reconstruct the period
it is set in. Everything, the clothes and the cars, are current with
the year it was made in. Granted, this happens a lot in movies, but
a film like Wings made up for these sorts of anachronisms. That's
not my biggest complaint, but I think I'm justified in saying that. All
in all, it was a decent effort, but could have been better.