captainsolo said:
Batman Forever. I still love this movie, warts and all.
*is cornered in a back alley by batman fans armed with baseball bats and is beaten to a pulp*
Ziggy Stardust said:
ChainsawAsh said:
Ziggy Stardust said:
Me and my dad just finished watching Full Metal Jacket.
Since he was in Vietnam way back then, he was pretty critical of the film's not being very realistic to what actually happened.
I think that Kubrick wasn't trying to make it a war film.
It was a character study.
Still, he thought it was okay.
Pop's rating:
6/10
My rating:
10/10 (one of my new favorites)
My 1960's History professor, who was in Vietnam, insisted that every Vietnam movie except for We Were Soldiers is complete shit that doesn't capture what it was really like.
Funny, my Dad also thinks that We Were Soldiers is the most accurate to what it was like too!
Besides, who cares if it's accuate or not?
If the film was 100% true to what happened in every way, it wouldn't be as good a film, would it?
I don't begrudge the right of a vet a to think that the war he fought in should be depicted accurately.
TheBoost said:
"Gladiator"
A big part of this movie bothered me that I'd never thought of before.
Emperor Marcus Aurelies says "I've been tyrant my whole life, and after enjoying a life of absolute power, I've decided that having absolute power is wrong. I'm not going to do anything about it, but after I die, I'd like someone else to change the system back to a Republic."
What a jerk!
I agree with this point. He could have and should have made the changes himself.
TheBoost said:
And who does he pick to do it? General Maximus! A guy with no politics, experience, or apparently even political awareness is supposed to somehow reform centuries of corruption?
I guess you missed the part where Aurelies says that is exactly why it has to be him. He was not part of the corrupt government and didn't have political ambitions.
