Thursday, July 03, 2014

Best watched after a few drinks?

Do you have a favourite "so bad it's good" film?  For me it has to be "Escape to Victory" - the film where a football team of PoWs in the last war are forced to play the German national side and use the match as cover for an escape attempt.  Its strength was also its weakness - the fact that with the exception of Sylvester Stallone (the obligatory American for American audiences) and Michael Caine, the majority of those taking part were professional footballers and not actors.  So the football was good and authentic - the acting was pretty crap.  But apparently they're talking of remaking it? Why??  It is a classic of its type.  Leave it alone.

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