Pathfinders: In the Company of Strangers (2011) or The Movie That Doesn’t Deserve My Attention!
Untold and lost history. A true story of the American Pathfinders, the volunteer paratroopers whose deadly mission was to land 30 minutes before the Normandy invasion, locate and mark strategic “drop zones” and set up the top-secret navigation equipment needed to guide the main airborne assault on D-Day. Written by Charlie Armstrong (from IMdB)
Pathfinders:In the Company of Strangers is one of the very rare movies I had to stop watching after 15 minutes knowing that I would not give it a second try. No way! I was at first not sure whether I had a problem with my TV or BluRay Player or both or with my eyes even. Surely no one would shoot a movie like this, would they? Like this meaning cutting half of the head off in every single take, varying only as much as occasionally the left half was missing, in other instances the top, sometimes the bottom or the right half. What the heck? At other moments the whole picture was moving so weirdly that I started to assume the camera man was not entirely sober. The acting was painfully unconvincing from the first moment on as well. Amateur does not need to equal wooden doll who speaks as if reading the text while talking…
Reading the blurb, I’m sure I’m not the only one who did/would assume it could be an interesting movie. Well, it isn’t. It’s dodgy and badly filmed.
TBM said,
August 9, 2011 at 3:54 pm
Yikes. Sounds like a horrible film!
allaboutwarmovies said,
August 9, 2011 at 4:33 pm
I can really not recommend it. It’s a real dud.
Ged Mcqueen said,
August 12, 2011 at 6:30 pm
This is the worst film i have seen in years. Poor acting, script, lightingsound and the sets were awful. They could not even be bothered to find an accurate 40s house to pt in the film and instead tried to pass off a newly built home. Typical of the directors overall attitude to the film. Dire. If I so much as see the directors name on something again I will run a mile.
allaboutwarmovies said,
August 12, 2011 at 7:16 pm
Thanks for your comment, it’s a bit of a relief to be honest, I don’t normally stop a movie after 15 minutes but all I had seen that far was so awful… Seems as if I hadn’t been proved wrong if I had kept on watching. Be assure, you will not be the only one runnig when seeing that directors name…
warmoviebuff said,
August 9, 2011 at 10:54 pm
Sounds kind of like “Overlord” in quality. LOL Is it is as bad as Col. Blimp? Maybe it was supposed to be a comedy (like Blimp).
allaboutwarmovies said,
August 10, 2011 at 6:19 am
I really have no clue what they did. I checked on IMbD and saw others commented about the cut off heads which was abit of a relief.
Novroz said,
August 9, 2011 at 11:20 pm
I have seem the trailer once…but not really interested. I don’t have any intention in seeing it…and your review makes me don’t want to watch it even more.
allaboutwarmovies said,
August 10, 2011 at 6:22 am
Maybe it is unfair since I only watched 15 minutes but it annoyed me so much…