Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by sjb (A) on September 04, 2002 at 21:41:00

In Reply to: Re: My observations posted by KevinC on August 28, 2002 at 23:35:35:

Sorry for the delayed reply, I was staying away from the computer for a few days.

I liked WWS more than I expected to. I thought it gave a much more human and less jingoistic view of the war than most war movies do.

I still thought the it was often trite, more PC than the reality of the time and a bit overblown on the heroism front but there were several character's I really liked (Gibson's, the photographer, the Vietnamese commander, several of the wives, the helicopter pilot (Greg Kinnear) and, of course, Sam Elliot.

I also though it was reasonably bold (especially since the movie had the thumbs up from the real Colonel) to portray the tragedy (for the years of death and destruction to follow) of our seeing the battle as a victory.

"A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it." --George W. Bush, July 26, 2000