Les_the_Sarge_9_1
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I guess part of our appreciation comes from "statements". I for instance, only listen to music with "positive" lyrics, because if I want to make a "political statement", I will have a gun in my hand, not a microphone. As a result, I have nothing at all nice to say about rap music. I find it all uniformly angry and hostile sounding. Not at all what I want to hear when I am trying to "relax". War movies are the same I would say. Therefore I will no doubt dislike war movies instantly if they fail in some areas. I thought TRL was a WW2 movie being used as a tool to promote modern political thinking. As such, I found it ruined whatever message it was trying to give. That, and I usually don't want a political message in my movie in the first place. I must say, with Saving Private Ryan, what I had to like the most was the Omaha Beach scene in the opening. Yes the rest of the film tended to be a bit less quality than the opener. But I will not forget the way the opener stunned and even horrified the audience. I don't often get to see idiotic audiences that really DON'T know the true horrors of war, shown what real death dealt out indiscriminantly and violently really looks like. It was 20- 30 minutes of shocking carnage, which I was able to notice took some time to wear of on the viewers. Good! I think modern movie viewers have been dished out one to many films with grossly inaccurate hollywoodish "action scenes" that had to little genuine looking death and destruction. I just watched T3 the other day. Fun film, not at all credible, but I was not really looking for credible, its an "action" movie after all. Windtalkers for instance, was rubbish. It was a film about Nickolas Cage, oh it also has some indians in it. The action is pure garabage too. The special effects department likely has no idea what 16" naval ordnance looks like going off. Certainly has never seen a grenade go off. And it's interesting how both can look so much like an oil rig fire.
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I LIKE that my life bothers them, Why should I be the only one bothered by it eh.
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