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The most disturbing movie I've ever seen. An English movie set around the city of Sheffield. No holds barred, about a global nuclear war and the result was no winners.

Slow burner but it accerates to a million percent half way through. Ugly scenes of survivors, from a dead woman hanging from a tree on a bike, to survivors trying to eat frozen sheep, another woman trying to nurse a doll thinking it was her daughter or granddaughter.

The last scenes were off the planet. A 14 year old girl gets raped by two desperate teenage f**kwits. Nine months later, a few milliseconds shows what she gave birth to.

Get a box of tissues or a shit bucket.
 
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One of those movies that have been recognized more as time has gone on. I remember it being panned by the critics and not doing very well at the box office. It was a big change in direction for Michael J Fox and Im not sure how well audiences at the time reacted to that. I thought he was great.

I think it is one of the great Vietnam War movies of our time.
 
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Wizardman said:
One of those movies that have been recognized more as time has gone on. I remember it being panned by the critics and not doing very well at the box office. It was a big change in direction for Michael J Fox and Im not sure how well audiences at the time reacted to that. I thought he was great.

I think it is one of the great Vietnam War movies of our time.
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Actually I like it better than full metal jacket...
 
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Another great war movie that I like:

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This is a movie I need to revisit at some point. I watched it when I was a lot younger and remember it to have been slow and a bit abstract. It was a long time ago though.....one I'll catch up with at some point.

I watched "Unbroken" about a week back. Decent but not groundbreaking in any particular way....a tad bit shallow in some ways. "Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence" was a somewhat similar movie in its theme and was a lot better.
 
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Wizardman said:
This is a movie I need to revisit at some point. I watched it when I was a lot younger and remember it to have been slow and a bit abstract. It was a long time ago though.....one I'll catch up with at some point.
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I watched it as an (young) adult movie fan and found it to be complete bollocks. Watched it again a few years later and my thoughts didn't change. For me, personally, films need an actual narrative. Not helped by Adrien Brody having a prominent role, I can't stand his film presence.

It's funny, as the criticism Malick gets for his more recent movies are the same ones I'd give for this but he was untouchable back then, a movie legend.

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Full Metal Jacket is number one in my Vietnam War rankings.
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Platoon is my number 1.
 
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Wizardman said:
One of those movies that have been recognized more as time has gone on. I remember it being panned by the critics and not doing very well at the box office. It was a big change in direction for Michael J Fox and Im not sure how well audiences at the time reacted to that. I thought he was great.

I think it is one of the great Vietnam War movies of our time.
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This was intense. Haven't seen it since it came out.
 
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Matua said:
I watched it as an (young) adult movie fan and found it to be complete bollocks. Watched it again a few years later and my thoughts didn't change. For me, personally, films need an actual narrative. Not helped by Adrien Brody having a prominent role, I can't stand his film presence.

It's funny, as the criticism Malick gets for his more recent movies are the same ones I'd give for this but he was untouchable back then, a movie legend.


Platoon is my number 1.
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Back around the time when I first saw it, I would rarely turn off any movie........it would have had to be an absolute shocker for me to do it. I would have turned this off before the hour mark. I'll still give it another crack.....but I didn't like it first time. These days, Im a lot more trigger happy when it comes to turning movies off. If I don't turn a movie off between the 40-60 minute mark, I tend to go the whole way.


I would think every movie fan on this planet would have either Platoon, Full Metal Jacket or Apocalypse Now in their top three all time Vietnam War movies. Great movie.
 
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Wizardman said:
Back around the time when I first saw it, I would rarely turn off any movie........it would have had to be an absolute shocker for me to do it. I would have turned this off before the hour mark. I'll still give it another crack.....but I didn't like it first time. These days, Im a lot more trigger happy when it comes to turning movies off. If I don't turn a movie off between the 40-60 minute mark, I tend to go the whole way.


I would think every movie fan on this planet would have either Platoon, Full Metal Jacket or Apocalypse Now in their top three all time Vietnam War movies. Great movie.
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The Deer Hunter is up there
 
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The last 20 minutes was fantastic.....the rest = needlessly long and boring. The movie was in dire need of a good editor. No way on Earth would "The Deer Hunter" be made and released in its present form today.
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It is a slow burn. I love the small town Pennsylvania parts. No other film captures that gritty reality. Streep is fantastic. All builds to that chaotic finale. These people were lost at home in a dying town. Vietnam was not their ticket to a better future. The veteran at the bar at the wedding sees through it all.
 
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The last 20 minutes was fantastic.....the rest = needlessly long and boring. The movie was in dire need of a good editor. No way on Earth would "The Deer Hunter" be made and released in its present form today.
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I'll have to give it another go. It was at least 15 years ago that I saw it. I'd say by the end I was just completely disengaged.

I have found a few movies that I thought were rubbish on the first viewing be much better second time around. I think that the second watch their are no preconceived ideas on what it's about, so expectation doesn't lead to disappointment. No Country For Old Men is a classic example of this for me. I saw it at the drive in when it came out and thought it was shit. After years of reading people rate it so highly I gave it another go a few years ago and really liked it. I think first time around I was expecting a classic western style type thing. lol
 
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