Monuments Men is a movie I've been looking forward to since I heard about it. It's the story of a group of American academics and art experts recruited by the US Army in WW2 to preserve important historical monuments from bombing and retrieve stolen art from the Nazis. Think The Da Vinci Code meets Inglorious Basterds. Here's the first trailer.
Digging it. The WW2 setting gives the story inherent drama and I like that our heroes are old guys and nerds instead of the usual beefy soldier guys. That gives the characters both humor and pathos. I also like that it has a sense of humor. A lot of war movies tend to be very dour, especially since Saving Private Ryan, so it's nice that this has a more pulpy adventure movie feel. Of course the actual movie could be nothing like that but it works in this trailer.
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