Captain Corelli's Mandolin (feat. Nicolas Cage)

Of Cage's extensive filmography, I might have been most dreading Captain Corelli's Mandolin. Despite being long, it looked boring, a historical romance for the World War 2 era. Apprently the book of Captain Corelli's Mandolin was more about the war and less about the romance.

Cage plays Captain Corelli, and Italian officer deployed to occupy a little Greek island, home to Penelope Cruz's character whose husband (played by Christian Bale) had a hard time fighting the Germans. But Captain Corelli and his fun-loving, drinking, and singing band of Italians are not Nazis. In fact, they have no interest in fighting anyone. But the treacherous Germans are unhappy when the singing Captain's troops try to withdraw.

So this wartime story stretches a lot to fit the beats for a romance. But I don't think it's a bad movie. I just think it goes on for too long. But even that, I can forgive because there's a lot of story. It wouldn't have bode well to turn the tragically violent war moments into a montage. So it feels like they tried to make two movies into one in attempts to broaden appeal, but the result is kind of a drag.

  1. Raising Arizona
  2. Leaving Las Vegas
  3. Red Rock West
  4. Adaptation
  5. Pig
  6. Birdy
  7. Wild at Heart
  8. Joe
  9. National Treasure
  10. Guarding Tess
  11. Snake Eyes
  12. Dog Eat Dog
  13. Color Out of Space
  14. Mom and Dad
  15. World Trade Center
  16. Peggy Sue Got Married
  17. Zandalee
  18. Prisoners of the Ghostland
  19. City of Angels
  20. Willy's Wonderland
  21. Captain Corelli's Mandolin

  22. Bangkok Dangerous
  23. Drive Angry
  24. Army of One
  25. Lord of War
  26. Gone in 60 Seconds
  27. Matchstick Men
  28. Vampire's Kiss
  29. Con Air
  30. Face/Off
  31. The Boy in Blue
  32. Honeymoon in Vegas
  33. Amos and Andrew
  34. Moonstruck
  35. The Sorcerer's Apprentice
  36. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
  37. Bringing Out the Dead
  38. The Family Man
  39. Knowing
  40. The Frozen Ground
  41. It Could Happen to You
  42. 8mm
  43. Grand Isle
  44. Looking Glass
  45. Arsenal
  46. Between Worlds
  47. Left Behind
  48. Ghost Rider
  49. The Humanity Bureau
  50. Next
  51. The Weather Man
  52. 211
  53. The Croods

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