Word: greates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This year, The Game meant nothing in the league championship race, but a great deal to a Harvard team searching for respect. Today the Crimson was hoping to show that it was really not as bad as its 2-7 record...
...opening night they were the greatest audience," Sloan says. "A lot of them were our friends. It was really great to do it in front of people. It is reassuring to know that you can do it," she says...
...soundtrack is an asset. Not only are the songs great, but they are appropriate in the context of the scenes for which they provide a backdrop. Jimi Hendrix's "All Along the Watchtower" plays during scenes of revolution on the Georgetown campus. "When I Was Young" by the Animals works well behind the opening montage of '60s news clips. Standards such as "Aquarius," "Get Together," "Time of the Season" and "Can't Find My Way Home" are other strong points of 1969's soundtrack...
...good music, several moving scenes and some truly intriguing characters in this film, but there is also an unbelievable romantic element which seems to be Thompson's idealization as he looks back on his college years. Thompson relies on an episodic structure which, though it does have great moments, doesn't hold the film together well. His trademark of using little moments to wrench the heart is not cohesive. This incoherence, particularly toward the end of the film, pushes over-romanticized events beyond the realm of believability...
...final analysis, 1969 is not a great film. It is not a bad film, but it simply does not achieve the proportions of other '60s time piece films (notably Hair). While the screenplay illustrates Thompson's talent, his direction reduces what might have been a noteworthy film to mediocrity. College students may accept Thompson's version of the Woodstock era, since we weren't there, but it's hard not to think that he isn't just looking back through rose-colored glasses at the good old days when he was trying to avoid the draft and having a great...