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

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.

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

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