Burt you should watch Act of ValorBurtReynolds wrote:Is Jarhead the only successful anti-war movie? It's the only movie that really depicts modern warfare as truly shitty and devoid of glory or personal fulfillment or meaning.
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Is it any good?E.H. Ruddock wrote:Burt you should watch Act of ValorBurtReynolds wrote:Is Jarhead the only successful anti-war movie? It's the only movie that really depicts modern warfare as truly shitty and devoid of glory or personal fulfillment or meaning.
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Was it hurt locker or jarhead that depicted soldiers basically just sitting around playing video games and jerking each other off bored out of their minds until the one big call came in?
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Has it always been a thing or am I just noticing it now?
Loads of films I’ve seen the last year telegraph later events way early in the story.
I might be semi concious of it and watching for it. But I’m seeing it more and more frequently
Loads of films I’ve seen the last year telegraph later events way early in the story.
I might be semi concious of it and watching for it. But I’m seeing it more and more frequently
Calibrate your enthusiasm
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I never saw Hurt Locker. Sounds sort of like Jarhead, but with the call never really coming and their girlfriends cheating on them.Strat wrote:Was it hurt locker or jarhead that depicted soldiers basically just sitting around playing video games and jerking each other off bored out of their minds until the one big call came in?
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i think that was it. That was the one that my Brother in law said was pretty accurate. A whole lot of nothing.BurtReynolds wrote:I never saw Hurt Locker. Sounds sort of like Jarhead, but with the call never really coming and their girlfriends cheating on them.Strat wrote:Was it hurt locker or jarhead that depicted soldiers basically just sitting around playing video games and jerking each other off bored out of their minds until the one big call came in?
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Well, it's a whole lot of sitting around until it isn't. Then you get orders for a mission where shit could hit the fan at any second for the next 48 hours or whatever. It is easy to get sucked into the lull of sitting around doing nothing for two weeks straight. And then thinking you are going to die if you blink. It's a mindfuck.
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Thats why i think he said that movie was actually pretty good.E.H. Ruddock wrote:Well, it's a whole lot of sitting around until it isn't. Then you get orders for a mission where shit could hit the fan at any second for the next 48 hours or whatever. It is easy to get sucked into the lull of sitting around doing nothing for two weeks straight. And then thinking you are going to die if you blink. It's a mindfuck.
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Actually the most accurate war movie is Rambo III, I have it on good authority
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I'm not talking about the merits of anti-war movies. I was just thinking about the adage that there are no anti-war movies. Jarhead is the only movie that makes war seem really boring and tedious, so it's the only really anti-war movie.
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Actually the only really anti-war movie is Rambo III, I have it on good authority
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I can't tell if you're joking.
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I don't want to ruin any interpretations of my post you may have.
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Regarding this year's Academy noms: wow, there's a lot of movies I have not seen this year.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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A24 is infamously terrible at award campaigns.tragabigzanda wrote:Also, no noms for Uncut Gems? Or was it released passed the deadline?
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Incredible. Sandler should have been there.tragabigzanda wrote:Also, no noms for Uncut Gems? Or was it released passed the deadline?
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