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In Reply to: RE: It was URBAN Vietnam, and a bombed out, rubble-laden city. There were posted by tinear on July 03, 2011 at 11:31:42
Where was all the French colonial architecture which urban Vietnam used to have?
None of the characters was central to the movie. They were just extras whose presence did not propel the narrative. They just seemed to exist to spout corny dialogue and get shot at.
The wounded comrade scene was the most ham-fisted scene I've ever seen in a movie. All the cliched slow-mo shots and anguished screams of the wounded. Kubrick, how could you? How many gallons of fake blood did he go through shooting that scene? Nothing in that scene looked real.
I never claimed Kubrick's characters speak brilliantly, but they are still central to the narrative. Look at every other Kubrick movie from Paths of Glory onwards - they all rely on a central character (or characters). No character, no story. As I stated earlier, take away Joker and the movie still moves along just fine. You can't say that about any other Kubrick movie.
I agree with you that Kubrick was trying to make an original war movie. It's just that IMHO he failed.
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