NavyDave Posted November 5, 2005 Share Posted November 5, 2005 Most military movies that lean to the left are in French and talk about surrender Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueTalon Posted November 5, 2005 Share Posted November 5, 2005 Well I am interested to see how they "hollywoodize" the military. But I think that I will probably wait awhile to see it. It doesn't look like a depiction of Marine experience, it looks like something a fat-@$$ed Hollywood type imagines the Marine experience might be. Sort of a We Were Soldiers meets Kanye West. As a Marine, I'm not enthused. I'd prefer to see something that's obviously fiction (like that Bruce Willis film a couple years ago) or something that actually tries to honestly depict events (Like We Were Soldiers or Blackhawk Down). However, if I get good reports from some of my fellow Marines, I'll probably go see it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hooper Posted November 5, 2005 Share Posted November 5, 2005 Thought it was just okay. The trailer for Spielberg's latest, MUNICH, looked real good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destino Posted November 5, 2005 Share Posted November 5, 2005 I think it's a fair assumption that coming out of a generally liberal environment the movie is more likely to be slanted left than right. You completely missed the point Chom made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hooper Posted November 5, 2005 Share Posted November 5, 2005 And there's nothing political about the flick at all. Man, the hysteria is just mind-boggling. How you can criticize something without having seen it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ironmic Posted November 6, 2005 Share Posted November 6, 2005 ...............Hoorah.................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RDSKNfaithfull Posted November 6, 2005 Share Posted November 6, 2005 Don't waste your money:puke: This movie is a B.U.S.T. At the end of the movie the whole theater let out a WTF. It has its moments but you could see a better documentry on the discovery channel:doh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prosperity Posted November 6, 2005 Share Posted November 6, 2005 I give it a 7/10 crappy plot, but the movie looked cool at least Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeanCollins Posted November 6, 2005 Share Posted November 6, 2005 Thanks guys, sounds like it's worth seeing, but won't win any awards, so what's new. I'll do like usuall and wait for it to hit the video store. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Nostril Posted November 7, 2005 Share Posted November 7, 2005 Actually, I think it probably will win awards. Not that it deserves them, but the academy is very kind to Sam Mendes, and this is better than Road to Perdition. I wouldn't be surprised with a best picture nomination. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westbrook36 Posted November 7, 2005 Share Posted November 7, 2005 Take it from a Marine, this movie was HORRIBLE!!!! That was honestly the worst movie I ever seen in my life. I must have missed it....what exactly was the story? You know, besides oversimplifying Marines as stupid, careless, heartless a-holes who only date whores. It was so unrealistic it wasn't even funny. I guess that SSgt was like the Commandant since he was the senior guy when the young Marines kept ****ing up. I also enjoyed how half the movie was a group of 8 Marines walking aimlessly around the desert by themselves. Stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveo21 Posted November 7, 2005 Share Posted November 7, 2005 No way in hell this thing will get love for any kinda nomination. A lot of bad press plus it's not that good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westbrook36 Posted November 7, 2005 Share Posted November 7, 2005 The movie infuriated me more than anything. I'm sorry, Marines are not like that, they don't interact with each other like that, don't talk to each other like that, etc. It's as if the story writer asked a bunch of Marines seperately what is the worst/funniest/grossest thing they ever seen another Marine do to another Marine and then tried to fill an entire 2 hour movie full of them as if it was normal day to day activity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Nostril Posted November 7, 2005 Share Posted November 7, 2005 Hey, never doubt the stupidity of the academy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueTalon Posted November 7, 2005 Share Posted November 7, 2005 Take it from a Marine, this movie was HORRIBLE!!!!That was honestly the worst movie I ever seen in my life. I must have missed it....what exactly was the story? You know, besides oversimplifying Marines as stupid, careless, heartless a-holes who only date whores. It was so unrealistic it wasn't even funny. I guess that SSgt was like the Commandant since he was the senior guy when the young Marines kept ****ing up. I also enjoyed how half the movie was a group of 8 Marines walking aimlessly around the desert by themselves. Stupid. I was guessing it would be something like this, based on the commercials. Typical Hollywood. Semper Fi, Westbook36, and Happy Birthday! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westbrook36 Posted November 7, 2005 Share Posted November 7, 2005 Semper Fi, Mac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hooper Posted November 7, 2005 Share Posted November 7, 2005 Um, not to burst your hollywood-hating bubble but a marine wrote the book which the movie closely followed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NavyDave Posted November 7, 2005 Share Posted November 7, 2005 Hooper more than likely its "Based" on a story like that epic Titanic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NavyDave Posted November 7, 2005 Share Posted November 7, 2005 Or should I say like that great movie Pearl Harbor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mammy487 Posted November 7, 2005 Share Posted November 7, 2005 i hope to see it in the near future, looks very interesting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westbrook36 Posted November 7, 2005 Share Posted November 7, 2005 Um, not to burst your hollywood-hating bubble but a marine wrote the book which the movie closely followed. Ok, and this Marine said talked about unmentionable acts in Iraq: http://www.extremeskins.com/forums/showthread.php?t=125320 Someone acting in their own self interest tends to skew facts, Hoop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E-Dog Night Posted November 16, 2005 Share Posted November 16, 2005 I caught it over the weekend and I rather liked it. I saw it with a guy who was in the army and he thought it was pretty accurate, although he felt there were some pretty typical urban legend stuff that he thinks never actually happened (i.e, the wife on the video tape, the sausages catching fire and setting off the weapons). But what I thought was remarkable was how the movie was somehow able to stay down the middle, as far as not being a pro-military movie nor being an anti-military move. It was much more about belonging to a group than it was about war. It kept its sense of humor intact. The cinematography was amazing on the big screen. But what got me was the Peter Sarsgaard character, Troy. He made the movie for me. I totally bought into his character, or at least I had the sense that Sarsgaard conveyed real emotions in a very realistic way. On a related note, Peter Sarsgaard has to be one of the best actors of this generation. He knocks the ball out of the park in every movie he does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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