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Podcast: Have a Good Movie
Episode: OSCARS '62: The Longest Day
Description: CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of deafness, blindness, ableism.
D-Day happened over 80 years ago, and to this day, there’s only been two films that capture the scope and scale of that bloody day. This movie is one of those, and unfortunately it’s the boring one. To be clear, the battle sequences are among some of the best committed to celluloid; there’s a few moments that will make you gasp at how well legendary ringleader Darryl F. Zanuck captures the battlefield. But then we turn to the characters, and they’re all a) played by actors d...