Who like me thinks this should be in the top 250 it is a very underrated movie i thought it is definately De Niro's best since Casino not his best of all time but still a very good film and it was deinately Goodings best film definately top 250 quality
shareAre you kidding me? If anything this movie was overrated! The cheese was so thick you cut it with a knife! And make grilled cheese sandwiches! Of cheesiness! And over-used stereo-types!
If there was ever a place the imdb user rating was correct, it's here! Yeesh...
"I did nothing. I did absolutely nothing, and it was everything I thought it could be."
Agreed, this is my FAVORITE movie of all time.
"I know exactly where your body is, what I'm looking for is some indication of a brain"
Lucyinthesky...............what you just said was cheesy.....why dont we make a film about you then........
i think this film was brilliant......it really made me think of the difficulties that carl must have been through...... i love this film and it is definatly on my top ten...........probably somewhere in the 5 to 1 section
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yep , definately in my personal top 10 along with the likes of some of the higher ranked films of this site. Everytime I lose motivation in my fitness training or life I watch this film, some may say its 'cheesy' but unless you have the same sort of mind set as people like Carl brasheer you'll never understand how and why this is so inspirational to some people.
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The boards for each movie tends to be visited mostly by fans of it, so it's no wonder that most of the replies to this post have been positive towards MEN OF HONOR.
Although I think the movie is okay, and that it's certainly justifiable because the history of Carl Brashear is important, it is by no means a classic whatsoever. That some of you have it on your personal top-10's doesn't mean that it has a place on the top-250. And DeNiro's performance is by no means near his performance in CASINO. His character in MEN OF HONOR does not have as many dimensions, and his over-all performance is over the top. In CASINO he also has a larger-than-life approach to his role, but it works because of the setup of the rest of CASINO.
That's the whole problem with MEN OF HONOR: the over-acting, the sentimentalism and the over-dramatising makes it feel cheesy (to use the words of another poster, although I don't like the term). It could gain a lot from the art of implying instead of painting with these big brushes, as if the audience are not smart enough to figure out who are the bad guys themselves. But then again, I generally hate movies that under-rate their audiences, so I actually think I'm being more than fair to MEN OF HONOR Currently it has 6.6 rating and I think that's quite fair.
There are movies out there a lot more artistically satisfying that deserve spots on the top-250 first such as LA STRADA (ita), VREDENS DAG (DK), ZERKALO (rus), HÄXAN (DK) (1922 version), SKAMMEN (swe), BARRY LYNDON (US) etc. We don't need a standard Hollywood blockbuster fill up another spot...
My top-20 movies: http://www.ymdb.com/ulrikone/l37847_ukuk.html