tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14575780.post7045545519631811684..comments2024-01-31T18:37:07.424+00:00Comments on The Agitation of the Mind: Cross of IronNeil Fulwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14686296295535235988noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14575780.post-5944041483108285202011-02-20T00:45:11.895+00:002011-02-20T00:45:11.895+00:00Hi!..I must return as I have made an error in my l...Hi!..I must return as I have made an error in my last post. James Coburn did not play Reisman in The Dirty Dozen it was Lee Marvin. My apologies!<br /> But even then Marvin was even more type cast than Coburn, and I never really thought much of him as an actor.<br /> Marvin didn't pull of Reisman and really the film is a total disgrace in the name of the book. It really gets on my goat when a film maker digresses from the book so much.BRENThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15953231992674091002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14575780.post-53752351961596876502011-02-17T11:43:20.993+00:002011-02-17T11:43:20.993+00:00I unfortunately don't think much of this film....I unfortunately don't think much of this film. The book is superb, but the problem for me is the casting.<br /> James Coburn just isn't Steiner for me. He is also mis-cast as Reisman in The Dirty Dozen. Reisman was an experienced and professional OSS officer and I just don't think Coburn captured that. <br />Coburn played the hard man but I still don't think he got the roles right in both these films. He just happened to be a big name star who had played in war and western films and is so often the case became somewhat type-cast. <br />They are both superb books, but unfortunately they suffer as so many book to film adaptations do.<br /> Still worth watching as they are cinematic history with the Coburn and Peckinpah connection.BRENThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15953231992674091002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14575780.post-63516663976072080432010-01-28T12:21:25.601+00:002010-01-28T12:21:25.601+00:00Glad I am not the only one who likes this film :)Glad I am not the only one who likes this film :)Skullkinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07355104182507769950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14575780.post-6644987621247906952009-12-28T04:00:35.754+00:002009-12-28T04:00:35.754+00:00Excellent Analysis of a difficult movie.
Unfortu...Excellent Analysis of a difficult movie. <br /><br />Unfortunately the only copy I've been able to view is Pan And Scan, so I still feel as though I truly haven't seen this one.Bryce Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17040954580033470664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14575780.post-53299409614945084242009-12-27T02:38:59.406+00:002009-12-27T02:38:59.406+00:00Just a slight clarification: the movie was apparen...Just a slight clarification: the movie was apparently popular in Europe, according to Enzo G. Castellari, enough so to inspire a fresh wave of Italian WW2 movies, but your point stands insofar as all this would do little to improve Peckinpah's situation in the U.S.Samuel Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00934870299522899944noreply@blogger.com