Some thoughts on some movies seen on an airplane.
The Legend of Bagger Vance (I saw this on JAL and the Japanese translation read literally "Putting Miss Daisy")
Everybody involved in this movie was obviously the most talented person available. The direction, the production values, the acting were all A1 grade. The only problem was the script which was so bad on every level that this movies is unwatchable.
Men of Honor- The "true" story of a Kentucky farmboy who became the first African-American to join the US navy diver program, and after losing a leg in the line of duty came back to become the first amputee to serve as a navy diver. This tale is so compelling that I would have thought that even if you had not the least empathy for human beings and your only reference for storytelling were bad war movie cliches you could make a decent movie out of it instead of a linear mishmash of cliches. I would have been wrong.
