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Sword of Honour (2001)
A reasonably decent tv adaptation
My only real gripe is about the Sten gun used by Crouchback during the Crete campaign...they werent issued yet....historically, it would have been a Thompson.
The Magus (1968)
A difficult book to translate to screen
I read The Magus when I was about 15...I'm 69 now.
I read it over a few successive weekends anchored in a cabin cruiser off Big Island at Lake Minnetonka so the environment was perfect to absorb Fowles.
3 years later the movie was released...the settings, the actors, are spot on. At best to condense this novel into a script is a challenge similar to David Lynch's attempt at Dune. Great books...a challenge to translate the stories into a script but both capture the essence.
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
The thing that has always bothered me...
The scene where they assault the machine gun nest next to the bombed radar installation makes absolutely tactical sense what so ever. With a sniper on their team why not just let him pick off the crew rather than use the entire squad? Plus, tactically it makes no sense to send a corpsman along with the squad.
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
One of the best
Recently rewatched this film after several years.
Storyline, character development, pace is spot on, however he cinemaphotography seems a tad dated as does the soundtrack. In fact the soundtrack takes away from viewing the pleasure. Hence an 8
Thunderball (1965)
Number 4
After several viewings of Thunderball I find the storyline basically falls flat in the 3rd act. Starts off with a great story set up but is reduced to a slightly boring action finale.
My favorite Bond films in the order; Goldfinger, From Russia with Love then Dr No. Thunderball is my fourth favorite.