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RE: Sam Fuller's "The Big Red One, Reconstruction" (long)

Posted by powermatic (A) on July 13, 2007 at 12:11:49

In Reply to: Sam Fuller's "The Big Red One, Reconstruction" (long) posted by mishmashmusic on July 10, 2007 at 18:32:13:

I saw this fairly recently, and I could only get through the first half. Poor acting, writing that would be bested by an average high school essay, absurd plot development-I could go on and on.

That whole first b/w scene might have been good, but the metaphorical pretensions were destroyed by the absurdity! For instance, a far truer scene with Marvin's commander would have gone like this:

C.O. "Where's your rifle"?

Lee: "Got kicked to shit by a wild horse".

C.O. "WTF"?

Lee: "Yeah, I know, it was really weird".

C.O. "So why didn't you just pick one up off one of the hundreds of dead
guys out there?"

Lee: "Oh-guess I didn't really think of that. Hey-there's a dead guy right
outside-I'll grab his".

etc.

And then, of course, Marvin looks exactly the same in WW2 as he did in WW1. I thought war was hell-didn't seem to age him in the least.

Anyway, went downhill from there. At least for me.

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