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Title: The Monuments Men (2014)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| George Clooney | ... | Frank Stokes | |
| Matt Damon | ... | James Granger | |
| Bill Murray | ... | Richard Campbell | |
| Cate Blanchett | ... | Claire Simone | |
| John Goodman | ... | Walter Garfield | |
| Jean Dujardin | ... | Jean Claude Clermont | |
| Hugh Bonneville | ... | Donald Jeffries | |
| Bob Balaban | ... | Preston Savitz | |
| Dimitri Leonidas | ... | Sam Epstein | |
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Justus von Dohnányi | ... | Viktor Stahl |
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Holger Handtke | ... | Colonel Wegner |
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Michael Hofland | ... | Priest (Claude) |
| Zachary Baharov | ... | Commander Elya (as Zahary Baharov) | |
| Michael Brandner | ... | Dentist | |
| Sam Hazeldine | ... | Colonel Langton | |
Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on an unlikely World War II platoon, tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners. It would be an impossible mission: with the art trapped behind enemy lines, and with the German army under orders to destroy everything as the Reich fell, how could these guys - seven museum directors, curators, and art historians, all more familiar with Michelangelo than the M-1 - possibly hope to succeed? But as the Monuments Men, as they were called, found themselves in a race against time to avoid the destruction of 1000 years of culture, they would risk their lives to protect and defend mankind's greatest achievements. Written by Sony Pictures Entertainment
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Having read the original book from which "Monuments Men" is taken, I was very interested to see the movie. There is a really fascinating and historically important story here, and it could have made a great film. However, soon after the show begins, it all starts to fall apart. The reason? George Clooney. He directed, and he wrote the screenplay. It's amazingly obvious that in neither of these capacities does Clooney know what he is doing. The screenplay is an absolute joke, totally disjointed, disconnected, silly, trite, and incredibly amateurish for a major Hollywood star of Clooney's stature. The same goes for the directing. George Clooney is obviously a guy with a huge ego, capable of fooling himself and a lot of other people who should know better, that he knows what he is doing. Film-making schools should show this movie as a classic example of what not to do. It's fundamentally flawed in every respect. Editing, music, etc.------one is taken aback by the unbelievable ineptness. Co-stars Matt Damon and Bill Murray and John Goodman and the rest of the cast merely parrot their lines in strange, disjointed scenes that beg to be rewritten by someone with a brain in his head. On the one hand, I totally condemn this piece of Hollywood egotistical stupidity, but on the other I heartily recommend it as an example of how bad movies can get in the hands of people with enormous egos. Stick to acting, Clooney---for God's sake don't direct and write screenplays ever again.