Bridge of Spies Any Good?

I haven't seen it yet, but they filmed some it here locally near where I live. We have an air force base here just out of town, where we seem to have a number of them stationed. I... wasn't aware they still fly?

Beale AFB could lose U-2 spy planes | Local News - KCRA Home

Oh, Tom Hanks was spotted here in town a few times at restaurants which was kind of neat.

And it seems the U2 planes still do fly....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_U-2

It's overall a good movie, entertaining and brings to the table some history of the Cold War that will be interesting for a generation that didn't experience it

The negative is that they were too cheap to actually shoot in Berlin and the scenes there are just not very convincing. The Russian Embassy is still in use - a very grand building built by Stalin on the Unter den Linden, really a palace, impeccably maintained. Looks shabby in the move, not the real thing and I think the settings in Berlin especially give a false impression. There are some entirely made-up, unlikely and improbable events, one of which, visiting a judge at home to talk about a pending case, would get a lawyer reported and punished. All of this kinda stuff is made up supposedly to advance plot, add human interest, and make it more entertaining, but I'm not sure that craziness does any of those things. Same with Tempelhof airport - the screen depiction understates that grand place.

Most people will like the movie and find something to learn about a forgotten chapter of history. I give it a B+

Thanks a lot guys will leave my opinion after i watch it

Well, if you don't like it -- at least you didn't pay for it, like everyone else does.

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The movie was shot where I am - Wrocław, Poland. We still have some shitty looking areas of town that can pass for east berlin

Yea, The budgets on movies are getting tighter.

My mom and dad liked the movie. From their era though.

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Then I really want to go to Wrockaw and see it. This, of course, was Breslau when it was part of German Lower Silesia. If I am understanding you, Wrocklaw still has areas with World War II damage, which is interesting to me. When I read about your city earlier this year, all I saw was praise for the massive rebuilding, new architecture, beauty and clean lines of the city, nothing about anything old or any war damage.

In 1979, the US Army sent me to the Stuttgart area where I lived for three years. While most of the enormous bombing damage inflicted by the RAF and USAF was gone, and the rubble quietly dumped to build a huge, tall, memorial mountain in the woods (something like 80% of all the residential housing in Stuttgart had been destroyed in just a few raids) there were still large, mainly vacant tracts, that had been obliterated by the bombs. In particular, at the foot of Koenigstrasse, there was a red light district with low end bottle-joint strip clubs built in metal Quonset huts - you know, the curved roofs of corrugated metal - and many, many blocks that were just leveled between there and the ruins of a church at the Feursee. The metal huts were gone within a year, and checking online, I see the church has been restored and those blocks rebuilt. It always gave me a sense of connection to dramatic developments in world history to see those things - and it is fascinating to me that, in Berlin, while nearly all of the destruction has been rebuilt, one still sees the bullet holes on the Dom and on many other buildings of the Museum Insel - and that no attempt is really made to disguise all of the patching to restore war damage. It gave me a very peculiar feeling to open an old wooden door, with ancient brass plates, at Stuttgart's Bahnhoff, knowing that the door had been the same during the Thirties and Forties - and used every day in that era. It connected me to things that happened before I was born, but which dramatically shaped the world I lived in.

It's probably good. Even a mediocre Spielberg movie is better than most movies.

If it's one of his better efforts, then it'll be amazing.

Not really any areas with ww2 damage as far as I know. We are easily the most 'western european' city in the country, it's pretty similar to driving through a German city at this point.

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Damn, that's fucking HUGE - I wonder what they paint it on?