My top all time
guilty pleasure movie. I love it, watch it all the time. My dad told me to watch it when it came on TV one Saturday afternoon in probably 84 or 85, I was 11 or 12, all he said was "you might like this, it's about some guys in the Army stealing some gold from Hitler". Loved it, then didn't watch it again for a few more years and by the DVD era I made sure I bought it when it was released. I just love all the craziness to it. It's funny how many flaws and dumb things that happen in it but doesn't bother me enough to take my love away from it. The part that stands out the most to me in terms of errors that make no sense the film makers would leave in there is the end when they blow the front door open but then have about 4 guys run in to the room from a side door. All that work to talk the German's into helping just to have them run in the room in a different door. Makes me laugh but oh well. I absolutely love Oddball and Crapgame. Big Joe is so cool, I love his line "Look! We're not worried about the German army, we've got enough troubles of our own. To the right General Patton, to the left the British Army, to the rear our own goddamn artillery, and besides all that it's raining. And the only good thing to say about the weather: it keeps our air corps from blowing us all to Hell because its too lousy to fly, versteh?" And when he's screaming at Mulligan is great. I can't say enough of how much I like this movie. My only wish is that we would one day be able to see the full complete movie before the studio edited it down.
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