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Brotherhood or SPR?

posted 17 years ago by surround_sound
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Tried posting this at the SPR board but posting anything over there is a waste of time. Please indicate which one you think is superior for each criteria:

Story - BoW
Acting - BoW
Music - SPR
Cinematography - SPR
Sound - SPR
Effects - BoW
Realism - SPR
Wow (emotional punch) Factor - BoW

Comments: Both films were extremely violent and left me feeling pretty drained and dirty.

BoW was non-stop action and violence for the last 45 minutes but it had a more interesting story. It showed the destructive effects of war on family and country, the worst of humanity, and showed the war experience in a "larger-than-life" fashion - a dreadful nightmare spiralling towards the hopeless ending.

SPR was more restrained, more objective given the documentary-style production. On the other hand it showed the experience of the soldier, and the abstraction between what happens on the field and what happens on the other side of the world. I would say it's less emotional than BoW and the actors didn't seem to put quite as much into the roles, relying more on the extraordinary action set-pieces and documentary style to keep the story moving.

Is it fair to compare these two films? And which would you rather watch, all things considered?

For me it would be Brotherhood.

[–] CoSMiGoNoN 13 years ago

SPR. TGG is very well done in terms of cinematography, but the script, acting and score were horrendous.

[–] hailstan 13 years ago

SPR is mainly fapfodder for 13 year old boys who just found out what ww2 was yesterday and don't now anything beyond "ya there was some beaches with mgs and they went pew pew pew but we killed all da evil nazis." It's pretty silly how they have a big stand off at the end against the SS soldiers who were, in reality, about a hundred miles away fighting the Canadians and British in and around Caen.