Go Tell the Spartans | Burt Lancaster, Craig Wasson | FULLSCREEN release is not for the movie purist

Go Tell the Spartans | Burt Lancaster, Craig Wasson | MASH with Blue Language and no Laughs, Good Writing nor Acting.

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Go Tell the Spartans

	Go Tell the Spartans Burt Lancaster, Craig Wasson Hbo Home Video, 2005 average customer review:based on 47 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Burt Lancaster delivers one of the finest performances of his career as a hard-boiled major in command of a Vietnam outpost. A classic of wartime confrontation.

FULLSCREEN release is not for the movie purist

I have watched this movie before on VHS. So when I saw that AMAZON had it on DVD I was delighted. However, then I noticed that it was released in FULLSCREEN. I would hope that the studios would re-release the movies in the aspect ratio that the movies were originally released in. I will not purchase any FULLSCREEN movies.

MASH with Blue Language and no Laughs, Good Writing nor Acting.

As soon as the movie started, I thought it was of those cheap made for TV movies that were cranked out in the 70's. Well it was not made for TV, but it certainly was cheap. I think the whole movie budget had to go to Lancaster, who by the way was given some the corniest, cheeseball lines in his career.

Battle scenes are sparse and look really cheap when they do occur. Not only are Lancaster's lines bad, the rest of the cast has nothing to work with either. Most lines are over acted and there is one character that is SO bad he was funny.

On a postive note, I think is does show how screwed up aspects of the were executed, bit overall, I would like to have that 114 minutes of my life back...Bad, Bad, Bad...

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