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| George wears all the hats |
A funny thing about reviews - "American Hustle" received fantastic reviews and will probably win the Academy Award. I disliked it so much that it was all I could do to sit in the theater until it was over. I would say "Exceedingly boring with no redeeming value."
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| Bill Murray |
On the other hand, "Monument's Men" has received terrible reviews, locally and nationally. And I loved every minute of it. Produced, written, directed by and staring George Clooney, it's the true story of a group of eight men who were tasked by President Roosevelt to go to Europe during World War II and rescue artistic masterpieces from the Nazis. Hitler wanted them all for himself - but if he should lose the war - he wanted all of them destroyed.
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| Cate Blanchett |
So the question was, is it worth the loss of life in order to save ancient treasures?
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| John Goodman |
I was very moved by scenes of great art lost and then found, of a warehouse loaded with the personal artifacts of displaced Jews, and of a Jewish soldier who was shown a Rembrandt stolen from his hometown. He'd never been allowed to see it prior to the war because he was Jewish.
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| Matt Damon |
I loved the final scene. The question to Sparks, played by George Clooney, is " Will it make any difference 30 years from now that we saved this art?
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| Nick Clooney |
The final scene, 30 plus years later, is of Sparks, this time played by Nick Clooney (George's father) visiting the saved Bruges Madonna by Michelangelo.
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Michelangelo's Bruges Madonna
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