THE SHOOTING PARTY<\/em><\/strong>: I really didn\u2019t want to dislike this movie. It seemed like that would be the result of cynicism\u2013the thing where people try to get on top of a movie, to prevent it from hurting them.<\/p>\n But this thing is so <\/em>heavyhanded! I mean, it is just WORLD WAR I IS COMING GENTLEMEN MAKE YOUR TIME! the entire way through, from the opening voiceover to the final title cards. There are some affecting moments (and some embarrassing ones, e.g. \u201cGod save the British Empire!\u201d) and some funny bits (I liked the costume party). But overall, the entire movie could\u2019ve been replaced by a title card reading, \u201cENGLAND, 1913,\u201d and no insight would have been lost.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THE SHOOTING PARTY: I really didn\u2019t want to dislike this movie. It seemed like that would be the result of cynicism\u2013the thing where people try to get on top of a movie, to prevent it from hurting them. But this thing is so heavyhanded! I mean, it is just WORLD WAR I IS COMING GENTLEMEN […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n