YMMV / The Monuments Men

• Harsher in Hindsight: The film's themes of preserving human history during war became a lot more relevant after the destruction of ancient Mesopotamian cities and artifacts by ISIS.
• Heartwarming Moments:
  • While in camp, Campbell and Savitz are going through their Christmas packages from home. Savitz has received caviar, while Campbell's includes a phonograph record made by his family, and he mentions having to "confiscate a phonograph" to listen to it. Later, while Campbell is in the shower, Savitz plays the record over the camp PA system.
  • Claire Simone inspecting a trainload of recovered art arriving in Paris, and finding the necktie she gave to Granger on one of the cars.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: When Sony was preparing for the release of the movie, news broke that around 1,500 pieces of art stolen by the Nazis had been recovered from a Munich apartment. The art had been amassed by a German art dealer who, when tasked with selling the artworks Hitler deemed “degenerate” had instead kept them for himself. He even dealt with the real-life Monuments Men when they returned art to him in 1950.
• Moment of Awesome: The Monuments Men manage to clear out an entire art stash in less than a day, preventing it from falling into Soviet hands. However, the Monuments Men do leave behind something for the Soviets to take back to Moscow: An American flag.
• So Okay, It's Average: While it got a lot of very negative reviews (which generally considered the film to simply be boring), the average viewer and some critics seem to have come to the conclusion that the film is decent, but not very remarkable.

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