As I watched "The Monuments Men", I kept finding myself wondering why the heck this film has an incredibly mediocre score of only 6.1 currently on IMDB. I am not sure why, but I can only assume most viewers simply didn't care about the work these soldiers did. But the quality of the production and fine acting SHOULD have guaranteed a score much higher even if folks didn't care so much about art.
The film was obviously a work of love by George Clooney and the rest. After all, a lot of work went into making the movie...such as getting WWII era aircraft, trucks, tanks, uniforms...as well as the art (which I assume were all reproductions). This took a LOT of work! I was also surprised because many modern films about WWII show equipment that isn't quite right...such as American vehicles pretending to be German or tanks which are Korean War era. But here in "The Monuments Men", they really took the steps necessary to get it right.
Now not everything in the film was perfect....and I assumed that this was done in order to streamline the movie. So, instead of 8 or so members of this group dedicated to saving and repatriating stolen artwork, there really were many more...perhaps a few hundred. But again, I think this was deliberately done to make the film seem more personal. Overall, a well crafted and fine film...one of the best of 2014.
By the way, if you want to learn more about this, try watching the documentary "The Rape of Europa".
The film was obviously a work of love by George Clooney and the rest. After all, a lot of work went into making the movie...such as getting WWII era aircraft, trucks, tanks, uniforms...as well as the art (which I assume were all reproductions). This took a LOT of work! I was also surprised because many modern films about WWII show equipment that isn't quite right...such as American vehicles pretending to be German or tanks which are Korean War era. But here in "The Monuments Men", they really took the steps necessary to get it right.
Now not everything in the film was perfect....and I assumed that this was done in order to streamline the movie. So, instead of 8 or so members of this group dedicated to saving and repatriating stolen artwork, there really were many more...perhaps a few hundred. But again, I think this was deliberately done to make the film seem more personal. Overall, a well crafted and fine film...one of the best of 2014.
By the way, if you want to learn more about this, try watching the documentary "The Rape of Europa".