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🎙️ EPISODE 602: 11.21.22
There's a scene thirteen minutes into this where the gang runs into a couple of frozen soldiers (one Nazi, one U.S., I think) and they are just stuck like statues in the middle of the path in a pose that looks like they're either gonna make out or punch each other and it's one of the stupidest things I've ever seen (see below). Unlucky for me that was the only super egregious LoL What? moment in this. The rest is mainly a boring slog. It's sort of fun to see all these "notable names of Hollywood" 30 years younger. Kevin Dillon looks exactly the same but Ethan Hawke looks like a baby. Writer-director Keith Gordon would go onto make the Vonnegut adaptation Mother Night and then mostly TV work. There's some nice cinematography and lighting work, especially some of the shots inside the abandoned house. But it mostly left me with a giant shrug. This one received shockingly good reviews when it came out, which speaks more to the fact that it probably hasn't aged well than anything else. Because it didn't work for me.
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I mean, the movie starts with Gary Sinise screaming his fool head off and its edited like some anti-comedy bit and then he runs off to a little creek, stripping his clothes off before the first of about 10,000 words of Ethan Hawke voiceover and like where are you supposed to go from this? ...
That was a rhetorical question.
A Midnight Clear is a 1992 American war drama film written and directed by Keith Gordon and starring an ensemble cast that features Ethan Hawke, Gary Sinise, Peter Berg, Kevin Dillon and Arye Gross. It is based on the eponymous novel by William Wharton. Set toward the end of World War II, the film tells the story of an American intelligence unit that finds a German platoon that wishes to surrender. It was released on April 24, 1992.
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