The really bad GOOD GERMAN

[CheezeFlixz]

I'm not going to go into it just to say if this movie movie moved any slower it'd be in reverse. They TRIED and said TRIED to pay homage to the classics of the 1940's film noir they failed to pull it off in my opinion. It just wasn't there.

I sat there hoping at some point I'd get interested in it, something would happen like oh I don't know, character development, acting stuff like that. It just drug like it had lead weights on. I watch it'd it all, and I still have no idea what I saw.

I think what was missing, was the corny lines from the old film the hokiness of them. They tried to film a 40's style movie with modern dialog and it just didn't work. That and fact actor today are nothing near the quality of actors then.

[SaintMort]

I really liked Good German myself and thought it pulled off the 40's look quite well. It was definately my favorite release that week (granted it was up against Epic Movie)

[the ghoul]

Oh, when I read the subject I thought you were talking about Ilsa

[Neville]

I can't tell why it doesn't work, really, but it just doesn't. I had a hard time trying to stay awake. Sodebergh is a good director, and one of the very few mainstream ones that keeps on experimenting with visuals and narrative. But when he gets it wrong, boy, he really screws it up.