The Best Years of Our Lives

Title: The Best Years of Our Lives
Year: 1946
Director: William Wyler
Writer: Robert E. Sherwood, based on the novel by MacKinlay Kantor
Starring: Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Harold Russell, Myrna Loy, Teresa Wright
Music: Hugo Friedhofer
Distinctions: Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor (March), Best Supporting Actor (Russell), Best Score and Best Editing; Honorary Oscar (for Harold Russell); Oscar nomination for Best Sound Recording; currently #186 on IMDb's Top 250
Synopsis: Word War II veterans come home
Length: 172 minutes
How I saw it: on video (rented from Netflix), November 2008
Subjective Rating: 3/10 (Bad).
Objective Rating: 4/10 (gets points for characters, dialog, special effects/design and acting) c. 2.3/4 (Okay).

Very tedious. I guess we're supposed to feel sorry for the guy with no education, skills or experience because he doesn't love his stable, easy job? Or are we supposed to be sympathetic toward the cripple who deliberately alienates his loved ones? Or maybe we're just supposed to take away the tidbits of Marxist propaganda they sneak in (not that I have anything against Marxism, but I really do not want to hear anything Hollywood has/had to say about politics).