Patton (Blu-ray)
A critically acclaimed film that won a total of eight 1970 Academy Awards (Including Best Picture), Patton is a riveting portrait of one of the 20th century's greatest military geniuses. One of it's Oscars went to George Patton, the only Allied general truly feared by the Nazis. Charismatic and Flamboyant, Patton designed his own uniforms, sported ivory-handled six-shooters, and believed he was a warrior in past lives. He outmanuevered Rommel in Africa, and after D-Day led his troops in an unstoppable campaign across Europe. But he was rebellious as well insight and poignancy, his own volatile personailty was one enemy he could never defeat.
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Great. - Superdave
Patton is quite simply one of the best American movies ever made. The script is a marvel, managing to create an intimate portrait of someone who strode a grand path through one of history's most important sagas, and the performances are wonderful and unflinching, warts and all. Patton's character flaws as well as his merits impacted on the events and people around him, and this movie has a rare ability to show this.
To tell the story of the man, the legacy, the myth and the moment and to do it with such cinematic panache, such stunning visuals; to create such an incredible visual landscape of literal history and at the same time a symbolic journey into one person's mind and beliefs and to see how all of this played into what he accomplished, good and bad is a marvelous and rare achievement.
The final shot of Patton staring at a windmill like a modern Don Quixote is at once both poignant and telling.
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Great. - Superdave
Patton is quite simply one of the best American movies ever made. The script is a marvel, managing to create an intimate portrait of someone who strode a grand path through one of history's most important sagas, and the performances are wonderful and unflinching, ...