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The Heroes of Telemark (1965)
Missed a few facts?
I see a few comments that are decrying the liberties taken with the true story, as usual, by Hollywood.
Not that it's not a common occurrence, and I'm not defending such practice - but I do feel it necessary to point out that THIS film is NOT, in fact, a Hollywood film at all. It IS a British film. Any complaints one can have with the omission or alteration of events must be directed at Rank, not at the non-specific "Hollywood".
The events of the movie, and the true-life events, are fascinating. It's a terrible thing to contemplate, Nazis creating the atomic bomb. What would our world be like today if they had succeeded? This was certainly a WWII story worth telling.
Red Planet (2000)
Good
I've just read a bunch of extremely negative reviews here - many of which mention details that are wrong, mind you - and I can't figure out why people get so hot under the collar about it all.
Why did I like it? For starters, it was darn refreshing to have a movie that DIDN'T have a villain. Some reviewers kept looking for one. I think they've been programmed by Hollywood to NEED one. Second, it's simplicity was equally refreshing. Again, some reviewers complained that it was too simple. At some point, don't you get tired of movies that build one subplot on top of another until you AND the movie itself can't keep anything straight?
Most of the complaints involve the willing suspension of disbelief. Things happen in the nick of time; coincidences and luck are paramount. Why can some people suspend their disbelief for similar movies but not this one? Even a movie like THE PERFECT STORM, based on a true story, had more compound crises than RED PLANET. Finally, it seems to me that deciding if it's good or bad based on how hot Carrie-Anne Moss looks speaks volumes about what a viewer really wants to get out of a movie.