Ebert Club
Marie Haws
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2013-07-09
Marie writes: I've been watching a lot of old movies lately,
dissatisfied in general with the poverty of imagination currently on
display at local cinemas. As anyone can blow something up with CGI - it
takes no skill whatsoever and imo, is the default mode of every hack
working in Hollywood these days. Whereas making a funny political
satire in the United States about a Russian submarine running aground on
a sandbank near a small island town off the coast of New England in
1966 during the height of the Cold War - and having local townsfolk help
them escape in the end via a convoy of small boats, thereby protecting
them from US Navy planes until they're safely out to sea? Now that's
creative and in a wonderfully subversive way....