Depressing and mostly non-entertaining

Rating: 5/10 (5 February 2007)

I saw this at the Bardovan Opera House, in Poughkeepsie, NY, this past weekend (February 2007). I guess this is considered a great film by a lot of people, but I didn't enjoy watching a waste of human life for 2 hours. There were no characters of any redeeming value in the entire film! These people were a bunch of morally bankrupt lowlifes! And I sincerely doubt that anyone used the F-word in the 1940s as much as was featured in this film. What is it about so many movie makers that makes them think inclusion of the F-word somehow improves it? (just like so many standup comics of today) And the whole B&W thing! Just because color film is the norm doesn't mean making a movie in B&W somehow moves it out of the "movie" category and into the "film" category. The pretentiousness of Hollywood really makes me sick sometimes! I will take "Rocky" (just about any one of the series) over this movie any day of the week.