As true film was meant to be.

Rating: 10/10 (30 January 2020)

This is what cinema was and hopefully will be again when the brain dead Millennials and GZs and those who serve them give way to a renaissance generation who embrace true film making anew. I feel sincerely sorry for the current youth who never grew up with classic film making. The marketing oriented sausage grinder tripe of today is enough to make those of us who know better weep crocodile tears (how's that for two run on sentences?). The franchise era should tossed on the scrap heap of history and be as quickly forgotten as it arose. Either that or relegate it to online streaming platforms that cater to the comatose masses. I sadly saw the last Star Wars installment a week before seeing this 1917. I thought I'd never go to the cinema again (it had been two years without a visit). I had abandoned all hope for film, but it sprung anew thanks to 1917. If it doesn't win best picture it will be all the evidence you ever needed that the fix has always been in, in Hollywood.