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In Reply to: War film recommendations posted by Mike on January 14, 2000 at 04:58:52:
caught parts of this beaming off the satalite the other night, (aplolgies if I have the title wrong, and I'm sure I fell asleep a few times--but ) and was pleastly surprised at what I saw. Some of those wonderful zen moments--when a grunt lies dying, and sees the world unfiltered by his monkey mind for the first time--the zig-zagging between dispassionate brutality towards your enemy to unbridled tenderness.Loved Nick Nolte (a fine, under-rated actor) as the leader lost between wars with one last chance to get his big promotion. A complex bit where you think you hate him but then come to see his point of view actually is the correct one. The decreped Japanese soldiers actually looked like they were slowly dying of starvation, thirst, and disease--that's not acting--those people looked bad! Plenty of surreal moments, loved the camera shots up thru the leaves into the sun.
What did you think of it Victor K ?
Now I'll have to see the whole thing again--when I'm awake.
A very tastefully done movie, even if not quite even in some parts.Since I saw it, I have been struggling with this question: what makes it so different from the Ryan? I get nothing but a severe case of bowl irritation from watching the Ryan, while the TRL leaves a very human emotional tone and definitely no negative sensation.
Pehaps it is the fact that Ryan is obviously made to get Oscar, so all tools are put to work in order to secure that award of shall we say, rather tainted merit. And it shows... boy, does it ever. It tries too hard to make sure you notice it. It is as phony attrention getter as a race horse painted orange.
The TRL is by contrast gentle. I am not sure I agree with you that Nick is underrated - not in my book. To me he is one of the better actors today. But it is not just him, it is the fact that there is nothing phony and false in that movie, nothing that you would expect from a made-for-womens-channel silly melodrama. Stuff the Ryan is sooo full of.
It is not the greatest movie, but one that you feel involved while watching. I don't even recall if there were any plastic guts and red paint in there. If yes, then certainly not in any amount that would scream being phony and gratuitous - another contrast with Saving.
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