Apocolypse Now Redux for me (tho I still say The Deer Hunter is the best war pic ever made) and I'd like to just come out and say how much I hate Platoon. What a shitbomb.
We Were Soldiers is only on there because my buddy is an ex-Marine and he says that it was very realistic. I haven't even seen it yet.
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 01:47 (twenty years ago)
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 01:48 (twenty years ago)
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 01:50 (twenty years ago)
― f--gg (gcannon), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 01:54 (twenty years ago)
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 02:05 (twenty years ago)
the question is really
GLORY vs THE GREAT ESCAPE
― Allyzay Dallas Multi-Pass (allyzay), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 02:09 (twenty years ago)
― latebloomer: HE WHOM DUELS THE DRAFGON IN ENDLESS DANCE (latebloomer), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 02:30 (twenty years ago)
Weird question, since it's not about one conflict.
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 02:31 (twenty years ago)
― f--gg (gcannon), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 02:34 (twenty years ago)
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 02:35 (twenty years ago)
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 02:37 (twenty years ago)
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 02:39 (twenty years ago)
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 02:40 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 02:40 (twenty years ago)
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 02:40 (twenty years ago)
― f--gg (gcannon), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 02:41 (twenty years ago)
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 02:42 (twenty years ago)
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 02:43 (twenty years ago)
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 02:44 (twenty years ago)
...or if it had had a decent sript in between!
― latebloomer: HE WHOM DUELS THE DRAFGON IN ENDLESS DANCE (latebloomer), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 02:46 (twenty years ago)
― latebloomer: HE WHOM DUELS THE DRAFGON IN ENDLESS DANCE (latebloomer), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 02:47 (twenty years ago)
― f--gg (gcannon), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 02:47 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 02:48 (twenty years ago)
Hank's unit should have had that conversation, realized what a load of shit the mission was and turned around.
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 02:49 (twenty years ago)
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 02:49 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 02:49 (twenty years ago)
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 02:51 (twenty years ago)
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 02:51 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 02:54 (twenty years ago)
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 02:56 (twenty years ago)
― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 02:56 (twenty years ago)
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 02:58 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 02:58 (twenty years ago)
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 02:59 (twenty years ago)
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 02:59 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 02:59 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 03:02 (twenty years ago)
― f--gg (gcannon), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 03:14 (twenty years ago)
Brando has sleepwalked through worse, Alex.
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 03:14 (twenty years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 03:17 (twenty years ago)
of course, on the other hand, it also seems spielberg (or whoever) mucks it up by suggesting with "tell me im a good man" that his becoming a middle class family man was earning it. typical spielberg move of running right up to the edge of profundity and great emotionaly power, and even a pretty deep abyss, and veering away to embrace comforting platitudes instead. the fact of that abyss is still there, though. and makes the film interesting to me.
― ryan (ryan), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 03:44 (twenty years ago)
Actually I totally forgot about this mid-sixties kidnap caper flick he did called Night of the Following Day. That's one of the worst performances EVER (not just by Marlon.) There is a sequence where Brando improvises "maaaaaaaaaaaaan" into every sentence for no apparent reason ("this caper is over, maaaaan. we're gonna get caught, maaaaaaaaaan. i don't like this at all, maaaaaaaan.") AND it's only in that one scene hahaha. It would almost be funny if it wasn't so baffling.
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 04:59 (twenty years ago)
― squeeee (PUNXSUTAWNEY PENIS), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 04:59 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:05 (twenty years ago)
― squeeee (PUNXSUTAWNEY PENIS), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:17 (twenty years ago)
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:21 (twenty years ago)
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― squeeee (PUNXSUTAWNEY PENIS), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:28 (twenty years ago)
― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:30 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:37 (twenty years ago)
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 12:41 (nineteen years ago)
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 12:44 (nineteen years ago)
― don weiner (don weiner), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 12:47 (nineteen years ago)
Thin Red Line? (except that was with Japanese not Germans) really good flick and hasn't been mentioned here yet
― am0n (am0n), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 12:57 (nineteen years ago)
but i think don is right on this one, i love band of brothers so much it's a little embarrassing, considering. It's really watchable and enjoyable at all points, pretty impressive since its like 239485 hours long, the battle scenes are shot to make you understand space, movement, and how those influence decision-making in a crisis. And it doesn't shrink at all from the image of men being blown up and shot, which is a really compelling mix of gratuitousness, filmmaking resources, and uh moral committment.
― geoff (gcannon), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)
Honourable mention for Jacob's Ladder, which probably doesn't count as a Vietnam film.
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 13:11 (nineteen years ago)
― geoff (gcannon), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Trumpets_Fade
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)
― Dr. Alicia D. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)
― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)
― Jimmy Mod is like a child who walks into the middle of a movie (The Famous Jimmy, Wednesday, 4 October 2006 03:45 (nineteen years ago)
― Tape Store (Tape Store), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 04:06 (nineteen years ago)
― and what (ooo), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 04:09 (nineteen years ago)
― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 04:16 (nineteen years ago)
― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 05:14 (nineteen years ago)
I don't get all this Full Metal Jacket-first-half shit though. There aren't halves in that film. FMJ is essentially comprised of 4 or 5 different short films, which are probably best seen as movements in a symphony. None of these sections have memorable characters the likes of Private Pyle during the initial boot camp sequence (Matthew Modine = not memorable), but that's the whole point of the film, regarding war and individuality. Kubrick was pretty anti-commercial for a guy who managed to get most of his projects off the ground.
― cosmo vitelli (cosmo vitelli), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 06:02 (nineteen years ago)
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 06:25 (nineteen years ago)
― cosmo vitelli (cosmo vitelli), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 06:46 (nineteen years ago)
jesus fucking christ it was just a figure of speech dude, wasn't like i had a fucking usher come into my living room selling ice cream after the drill instructer part finished.
ffs
― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 07:36 (nineteen years ago)
― cosmo vitelli (cosmo vitelli), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 08:14 (nineteen years ago)
― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)
i grew up loving _apocalypse now_, but seeing it recently i thought it was wordy, over-the-top and just basically ridiculous. well, i guess all war movies are, but this was compounded by the fact that, despite the great look of the film, coppola obviously knows zip about military matters.
full metal jacket is a great depiction of the marines, but again, the climacting battle scenes just didn't click. the marines come across as incompetent. isn't that the point of the brutal training, to break you down and mold you into a soulless and efficient killing machine? so then how come kubrick shows them standing around screaming at each other? they say that disciplined suffered in vietnam, but it wasn't as bad as that. that's a problem with a lot of anti-war films, they feel like in order to make their point they have to portray the american military as incompetent. which is false and totally obscures an important point: the guys on the ground aren't incompetent - it's the civilian leaders in washington that are clueless as hell.
― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)
― gear (gear), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)
― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)
― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 21:09 (nineteen years ago)
― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 21:10 (nineteen years ago)
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 5 October 2006 05:56 (nineteen years ago)
― cosmo vitelli (cosmo vitelli), Thursday, 5 October 2006 06:38 (nineteen years ago)
― AleXTC (AleXTC), Thursday, 5 October 2006 09:20 (nineteen years ago)
― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 5 October 2006 09:22 (nineteen years ago)
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 5 October 2006 09:38 (nineteen years ago)
― PRKLTR (flezaffe), Thursday, 5 October 2006 09:53 (nineteen years ago)
― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Thursday, 5 October 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)
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― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Friday, 6 October 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)
-- cosmo vitelli (jacobma...), October 4th, 2006 3:02 AM.
It's not very effective to defend Kubrick by saying "it's insert pejorative because he meant it to be insert pejorative". I love Kubrick, but frankly he sometimes ran out of gas. Just because he was obssessively methodical doesn't mean you can forgive every aesthetic misstep he ever made.
Hate Platoon and Apocalypse Now is untouchable top 10 for me.
― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 6 October 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)
so, they're making a Pacific Theater version of BoB, then?
― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 9 October 2006 05:56 (nineteen years ago)
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 9 October 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 9 October 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)
this is a great read
http://www.destructibleman.com/2010/06/green-berets-john-wayneray-kellogg-1968.html
http://i.imgur.com/Zqopo.jpg
― Hungry4Ass, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 11:50 (thirteen years ago)
Watched this clearance-bin DVD, Bravetown. The film itself wasn't much--a lot of histrionics from the actors, and whereas I was expecting sort of a You Can't Go Home Again thing, with a 17-year-old New York DJ forced to return to his dad's custody in a small North Dakota town, it was instead a little of that and lots of corny Bring It On dance-team scenes. Anyway, the really strange thing is this ongoing Platoon worship going on in the film. The kid is forever watching the film at home, and the big climactic scene--you can't make this stuff up, right?--is a dance he choreographs for the team at the state finals that uses the Platoon soundtrack and has the dancers falling all over the place like they've been shot. It's supposed to be really powerful, because the small town is a military town where every family has lost someone in the Iraq War, and it is, a little, but mostly I felt like I was watching the Max Fischer Players and couldn't stop laughing.
― clemenza, Sunday, 16 September 2018 00:47 (seven years ago)
I haven't seen Platoon since it came out. Didn't like it--I liked the next few films Stone made better.
― clemenza, Sunday, 16 September 2018 00:48 (seven years ago)
Yeah I don’t like Platoon as much as I used to. Feels very corny now.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 16 September 2018 02:18 (seven years ago)
Speaking of great war films/series, I was late to discover Kill Generation, an HBO 1-season tv show. It might be my favourite war "film" ever.It's an amazing depiction of Irak 2 embedded with a recon marine unit.The way they illustrate silly/criminal command, the internal power struggles, the desorganization/incomprehensible logics of the military... and the sheer and absurd violence of it all.Also, something that increases the "reality" feeling is that there's no music in the soundtrack, only the songs the marines sing themselves... except the final scene with J. Cash's fantastic "The Man Come's Around".Imo, this show is head and shoulders about Band of Brothers, for instance.
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 19 September 2018 14:09 (seven years ago)
Yeah I loved that series! also my inner pedant demands me to say that it’s called Generation Kill sorry :)
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 19 September 2018 21:02 (seven years ago)
The book is really good too
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 19 September 2018 21:56 (seven years ago)
otm
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 20 September 2018 03:27 (seven years ago)
Eheh ah yes of course, thanks !(Actually the only thing I dislike about that show is its lame/generic title...)
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 20 September 2018 06:36 (seven years ago)