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Happy is one thing, but if my husband married someone after I died I'd come back from the hereafter and kill him
ridiculous
Happy is one thing, but if my husband married someone after I died I'd come back from the hereafter and kill him
That is actually my favourite of the eighties era Vietnam picture trend. I liked that scene a lot, though my favourite is actually the ending, with the GIs marching through the burned ruins of a Vietnamese City while singing the Mickey Mouse Club theme song. Beautifully worked metaphor.
But they killed the guy from Mail Call and the Geico commercial.... he's not bad, he's just impatient
W-D Forties said:The thing that always irks me about Full Metal Jacket is the fact that it was filmed on the Isle of Dogs. Vietnam has never looked so cold.
R. Lee Ermey... It was that role that led to his Full Metal Jacket role as GSGT Hartman.
Also, I fell asleep while trying to watch:
2. E.T.
3. The close encounters of the third kind
.. I just fail to see deeper meaning in "E.T. phone home.."..
Of course, from a business standpoint, the purpose of movies *is* to sell popcorn. And soda. And candy. The Spiel-lucas style might be empty calories, but you can't say they don't do exactly what they're intended to do -- and the money such pictures make subsidizes the artier stuff.
We show indie/art films most of the time, and frankly, it's a struggle. If thirty people show up, it's a good audience. People might say they want more art in the movies, but they don't say it with their pocketbooks open.
Oliver Stone is the most over rated director in this age.
Of course, from a business standpoint, the purpose of movies *is* to sell popcorn. And soda. And candy. The Spiel-lucas style might be empty calories, but you can't say they don't do exactly what they're intended to do -- and the money such pictures make subsidizes the artier stuff.
We show indie/art films most of the time, and frankly, it's a struggle. If thirty people show up, it's a good audience. People might say they want more art in the movies, but they don't say it with their pocketbooks open.
That's the eternal struggle between art and commerce, isn't it? I don't deny that Spielberg and Lucas do their jobs well, I just don't like my generation's perpetual, pre-adolescent fawning over empty entertainment like Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark.
I'd be lying if I said I didn't love that stuff when I was ten years old. However, when I see those movies today, there's absolutely nothing more to what I first experienced thirty odd years ago. Star Trek, as silly as it may sound, has content that resonates with me as an adult. As a kid, I liked the ships and fights; as an adult I like the political and sociological allegories.
Ain't that the truth. I've also been told by folks in the industry that most film, even in the mainstream, are lucky to break even, a cinema's profits being made on the concession stand.
Ain't that the truth. I've also been told by folks in the industry that most film, even in the mainstream, are lucky to break even, a cinema's profits being made on the concession stand.