The Monuments Men.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

Saw it tonight.
Since I LOVED art history in college, it was fun!

I recognized the Ghent Altarpiece and a Velasquez princess from Las Meninas, and a couple of others, but had no idea about the Madonna of Bruges being in Bruges.

Nor did I know they burned 20th century art. Cate Blanchett as the secretary mentioned that they burned Picasso, Paul Klee and Max Ernst works.

It's amazing that I like movies that critics don't. Everybody's different. Hell, I loved Now You See Me, last summer, which was a fun piece of fluff, and the critics picked it to death logically.

So far the reviews don't like Monuments Men. I guess movies where you can HEAR what people say, and shots which last several seconds so you can SEE details are unfashionable. Kind of like "Lincoln" last year, which was a very quiet movie.

It was cool that in the last scene, the old man looking at the Madonna of Bruges is Nick Clooney--George's dad!!!

I don't get tired of looking at George!

[elleng]

1. Same. Saw it today,

and really enjoyed it. I enjoyed the history as well as the art (got angry at Hitler again, almost similar to anger I felt/'feel about U.S. history re: slavery. 12 Years a Slave really got to me.)

Wondered who that old guy was!

[Blue_In_AK]

2. My husband and I enjoyed it, too.

[Tobin S.]

3. My wife and I enjoyed that movie as well.

You might want to put a spoiler alert in the subject line for revealing the last scene.

[cyberswede]

4. I took my 13 year old to it - we loved it.

I thought it was a good chance for him to learn about something historical that he hasn't learned about is school yet, but in a way that wasn't too heavy.

[Aristus]

5. I enjoyed it very much.

I think the critics missed the boat on this one.