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Stone's film celebrates family and homeland, ordinary people are extraordinary for surviving, clichés to leave for future generations, and even Jesus Christ appears with a bottle of mineral water. And you compare this film where even your American comrade is the executioner and is in a hurry because he has to go eat? Do you think you've used your judgment well, denial?

I meant comment n. 15, it's true... too much popcorn makes you dull, I need to limit myself.

Number 13 was clearly for the elected one who is disturbed by the rhetoric of this film just as much as I remember he was instead thrilled by that lavishly spread in "Il postino."

@deneil forget about whether the movie is good or bad, because that is subjective: what is not subjective is that you placed it on the same rhetorical level as Stone's film, and that's not the case. Rhetoric is present in at least 90% of the movies produced, that doesn't mean they are all contemptible.

One of the most beautiful movies I've seen is "Five Easy Pieces" by Bob Rafelson, and there was nothing in it that wasn't already known... that’s not the case with this film, which is far from being a masterpiece and is also very distant from being a film that aims to move... I often eat popcorn, even last Monday; maybe you think that's why I didn't understand it? Damn, I hadn’t thought of that... P.S. it’s completely understandable that you don't appreciate this film; I would have been surprised otherwise.

for me it's the duo Mel Schacher and Don Brewer from Grand Funk Railroad, but Bonzo and John Paul Jones weren't bad either...
P.S. beautifully written damn, I'm among the unlucky ones...

...but how can one say that this is a feel-good movie? Mysteries of the human psyche...

You can see, guys, that we are from different generations, damn it. I didn't like Crash at all; it’s redundant, just like what young people today enjoy, and that is indeed rhetorical and slick! As for this, I don’t know if it’s overrated because I haven't seen the expectations-trailer. I didn't overrate it, and I don't think it deserves a two. If eletto1987 sees "all the references to the American flag, to honor, to the American man capable of anything with sheer willpower," it seems he was too busy stuffing his face with popcorn. There is no honor in American soldiers playing doctor while torturing prisoners by sticking their fingers in wounds, and it’s hard to discover that your son, whom you taught, as a perfect American prude who believes that with willpower you can iron your pants by rubbing them on the bedside table, embodies all the good values of this world. The American flag is ridiculed because it realizes the absurdity, which his wife reproaches him for, of two "spoiled" children for nothing; it’s the drama of a man and a nation that wants to export democracy because they think they are the strongest, and instead the flag should be flown upside down because it is a cry for help from a country that discovers its own weakness, and it should also be sealed with tape in that position.

Comparing this film to the rhetoric of that Stone says a lot about your judgment capacity, deneil, what would the rhetoric be in a film where there are four roasted pieces of an American soldier in a coffin without the work coming from the Taliban monster? Maybe Goliath doesn’t recite the Quran… Those that you call little tunes are the work of Mark Isham, and I think that in a music review site plenty know how to distinguish between Isham and a jingle maker. Haggis is not a director, and you can tell; he’s a good screenwriter but will never be a Milius or a Walter Hill, great screenwriters and directors. He closes his film with a thesis demonstration of the prejudices of American society in a somewhat claustrophobic manner, but the film is watchable, and I don’t regret the money spent. Also, because that you call a puppet, Tommy Lee Jones, doesn’t cry, doesn’t laugh, but just by looking into his eyes, you understand what he wants to tell you. I didn’t pull out my hair, which is still beautifully flowing, for this film, but if someone asks me if it’s worth watching, I say yes without hesitation, and then maybe you can come and share your impressions here.

@alessio for me they’re all three different from each other, but maybe I have a preference for Raw Power. They return after 3 years and barely hold it together; Williamson is more metallic than Asheton on guitar, and Asheton himself plays the bass with such rage for the "retrocessione" that it feels like he's smashing it over everyone’s heads... and Iggy is at his vocal peak, he’s exceptional. You put the needle down... "Search & Destroy" starts, and you realize that instead of going to Lourdes, you have to make the trip to Detroit to get exorcised from any temptation to listen to anything else; it’s pointless.