Watched in HD in Dolby Digital 5.1 on Amazon Prime.

1917 (2019) at IMDb

Two soldiers are sent with an urgent errand to another company to call off an attack which would result in carnage thanks to a German trap.

Hope is a dangerous thing

Colonel Mckenzie

Like Hitchcock’s Rope, Sam Mendes and Roger Deakins have dinner an astounding job of stitching scenes together to give the appearance of a single shot. Between running nose-to-nose with the actors and swinging and flying around the action, you get an intimate and vivid – and often grim – insight into war.

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In the beginning there was Jack … and Jack had a groove. And from this groove came the groove of all grooves. And while one day viciously throwing down on his box, Jack boldly declared “Let There Be House” and House music was born.

~ Chuck Roberts