Caltrops - Orbitor 1





	[quote name="Brody Wilder"]Here's what I got out of it: Playing at war by the rules, viewing armed conflict first and foremost as a chance for personal aggrandizement (not unlike big game hunting), works okay when you're fucking around with cavemen on one of the darker continents. It works somewhat less well when your own country's about to be overrun by Hitler's blitzkrieg. Colonel Blimp thought he'd learned everything he needed to know about soldiering as a young man, and spent the rest of his very long and dignified career learning absolutely nothing. He also thought he'd learned everything he needed to know about love as a young man, when he fell for a Deborah Kerr who ended up marrying another guy. So for the rest of his life, instead of appreciating women as individuals, he judged them solely on their resemblance to Deborah Kerr. This ultimately left him just as personally unfulfilled as he was professionally useless. If The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp was Planet of the Apes, he'd see the smashed statue of liberty that was his life and realize he'd made some mistakes along the way. But realizing things was never Colonel Blimp's strong suit, so instead he just ends the film sad and unwanted by everyone. I guess that's a good lesson? It's a fucking depressing lesson. I'm also not entirely convinced it was the one the filmmakers set out to convey. But if not that, what? What else was that three hours about? Like I said, Anton Walbrook's storyline was pretty good, that could've been a whole movie on its own. But the rest was one long, miserable, Tales from the Crypt.[/quote]