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As directed by John Guillermin (who later made The Battle of Britain in 1969), the film's main assets are epic production values, great flying scenes, and stunning dogfights. The weak point is the sometimes ponderous character drama, not helped by Peppard, who is too lightweight an actor to convince as the driven antihero. Clearly influenced by Kubrick's Paths of Glory (1958), The Blue Max is a cold, cynical drama offering a visually breathtaking portrait of a stultified society tearing itself apart during the final months of the Great War. --Gary S. Dalkin
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | John Guillermin |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 21 June, 1966 |
| MANUFACTURER: | 20th Century Fox |
| MPAA RATING: | Unrated |
| FEATURES: | Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Action, Action / Adventure, Adventure, Feature Film-action/Adventure, Movie |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 024543071952 |
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awesome aviation movie This is one of my favorite aviation movies (next to "Battle of Britain," and "Tora! Tora! Tora!"). <
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>What sets this movie apart from any other flight movie, though, is that the main characters are just as exciting and intriguing as the combat footage. <
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>The rivaly between the top aces is very engaging. "Top Gun" tried to create rivaly between Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer, but I really didn't get into it as much. In my opinion, there really wasn't much of a difference between Cruise and Kilmer other than the way they look. But when you compare the rivals in "Blue Max," you get a much better contrast of characters: for one, the younger pilot is more of a working class kind-of-guy; his counterpart, on the other hand, is more aristrocratic. <
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>As for the casting of the main character, I'm not at all disappointed. Sure, his accent was a little bit non-Germanic sounding, but he flattened it pretty well. As far as acting goes, I felt he was right on target: of course he seems out of place amongst the pilots because he IS out of place. He was a footslogger before he became a pilot. Although he flew very well, he still wasn't in the same class as them (socially). <
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>As for acting, I think the only performance that was horrible was James Mason's. It's amazing how many times this actor got casted as a German. Why does such a poor actor get so many cool roles when he won't even TRY to flatten his non-German accent? If I was playing a Southerner, I wouldn't go out of my way to ACCENTUATE a New England accent. It's just illogical. <
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>This movie's awesome, and you'll be treated to good aerial footage in addition to an engaging story.
Nothing at all like the book - in case you care.
The only thing this movie has in common with the book by Jack D. Hunter is the title, The Blue Max, and the names of the characters. Everything else was completely changed. Ok, there was one scene when Bruno Stachel shoots down a British plane over his own airfield that was somewhat true to the book... The screenplay changed virtually all the character relationships - and not for the better. In the book, Stachel is a drunk and the story centers more around the relationship between Stachel and his Commander, Von Heiderman.
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>Frankly, I think the book was a much more compelling story. The two versions are so different; you can watch the movie and not ruin the plot in the book and vice versa. In fact, the ending is completely reversed. A different character dies at the end of the movie. The book also does a much better job of building and explaining the Stachel character.
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>The movie was ok. The book was great. Glad I read the book first or I probably would never have read it after seeing the movie.
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The best WWI film perhaps; Peppard notwithstanding!
The Blue Max is both a classic and a quirky film. It has epic Hollywood scope but adopts a fascinating viewpoint and tells a tale of cynicism high and low, and of class warfare amid real warfare.
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>Max centers entirely on the German air forces during the final months of WWI. George Peppard is Bruno Stachel, a newly-minted officer of humble origins. He enters a service in which the ranks are filled by the elite of the dying German Imperium's aristocracy. He wants to climb socially and sees his route as being through The Blue Max, an award given for 20 confirmed kills of allied planes and "the only medal worth having anymore." His route runs through Ursula Andress, a randy Countess, and James Mason, her platonic husband, who also happens to be a ruthless Luftwaffe General desperate to use low-caste Peppard as a hero to the unquiet masses behind the lines.
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>Although Peppard is, as some have noted, a little lightweight for the role, he is not bad, and he has just the right carnivorous look. The splendid production values are also not to be overlooked--the aerial combat scenes are superb.
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>On the whole, Max is a superb film and a semi-classic. Max does not rise to the levels of irony and gritty reality of Kubrick's Paths of Glory but it certainly exceeds All Quiet on the Western Front or the almost campy Fighting 69th.
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>A valuable addition to the collection of any war film or aviation buff!
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