What's with these reviews?!

^Hey, that sounds like a pretty good premise for a movie. I'm serious. Anything that involves Mass is worth looking into. Plus - a band of comrades staking their lives for two other lives? Awesome!

Ditto your opinions. Some reviewers need to chill and look into the underlying themes of things. It's not what happened, but what it's all about. I think more people these days need to stop being such pains in the asses and being so politically correct, and stand up for something. Not tear things down.

^Heh, heh. That's my opinion

^The above has been censored and is not my current opinion. I approve of this edit.

I disagree, I think reviewers and particularly movie critics impart a depth of insight and analysis that a common man cannot do himself; who would not heed the acumen of such learned people?

Dumb Drop featured Danny Glover right? I think so, it was definitely a good film though.

^I'm sorry, I was wrong. Reviewers, as you've said, do have a more knowledgeable sense of insight. They've had years of experience in their fields and would most likely have more insight than opposed to a person who didn't know a thing about stories, movies, their structure etc.

The people I was referring to would be the common man, as you said. Some who just like to point out the bad things in such forms of media or the common people who belong to animal protection associations and bring up problems by accusing the film makers of animal abuse.

Lesson learned here. I was being one "common man" and jumped on the band wagon. I didn't think to read back on my post. I was being ignorant.

So reiterating my post in a different perspective: IT'S JUST A MOVIE PEOPLE! Can you really be that anal? As long as it wasn't poking jokes at the Vietnam War and no animals were harmed in the making of the film - it should be acceptable. Besides, it was a comedy.

^So -- that is my opinion. Reiterated and censored.

Always stayed away from this movie. Figured it was a pile of elephnat poo.

Reviews are always different. it also depends where you are reading your review from. If its on the back of the TV guide, i generally only read them for laughs.

Nothing is ever JUST a movie.

I haven't seen it so i can't comment about it - it all depends on the way it's done.

But in princple - a comedy movie set in the Vietnam war that isn't about the Vietnam war? I imagine to be like an American comedy set in Abu Graib without mention of torture. Those crazy infidels Feat Ben Stiller - ben stiller has to derp de derp de derp de derp with electrodes on his testicles.

When you make war into a light comedy it's an attempt to gloss over its horror. I'm interested to know if you could make a light comedy about 9/11 for example*

There's a lot of talk about political correctness and how negative it all is - censorship can be incredibly dangerous - but in light of films like "A Serbian Film" (which is in itself an allegory for the Serbian war - albeit one Bloody Disgusting likened to "having his soul raped") it's becoming increasingly less valid because human beings seem unable to censor themselves..


*Chris Morris already made a light comedy about inept terrorists - Four Lions.. But how about one that shows the terrorists as cool wisecracking role models undergoing a de derp de derp to find C4 to blow up the plane - with HI-larious consequences.

Nothing is ever JUST a movie.

I haven't seen it so i can't comment about it - it all depends on the way it's done.

Catch 22, M*A*S*H et al are about the absurdity of war and the Pathos of the characters that make the comedy work.

A comedy movie set in the Vietnam war that isn't about the Vietnam war? I imagine to be like an American comedy set in Abu Graib without mention of torture. Those crazy infidels Feat Ben Stiller - ben stiller has to derp de derp de derp de derp with electrodes on his testicles.

When you make war into a light comedy it's an attempt to gloss over its horror. I'm interested to know if you could make a light comedy about 9/11 for example*

There's a lot of talk about political correctness and how negative it all is - censorship can be incredibly negative - but in light of films like "A Serbian Film" (which is in itself an allegory for the Serbian war - albeit one Bloody Disgusting likened to "having his soul raped") it's becoming increasingly less valid because human beings seem unable to censor themselves..

*Chris Morris already made a light comedy about inept terrorists - Four Lions.. But how about one that shows the terrorists as cool wisecracking role models undergoing a de derp de derp to find C4 to blow up the plane - with HI-larious consequences.

Nothing is ever JUST a movie.

I haven't seen it so i can't comment about it - it all depends on the way it's done.

A comedy movie set in the Vietnam war that isn't about the Vietnam war? I imagine to be like an American comedy set in Abu Graib without mention of torture. Those crazy infidels Feat Ben Stiller - ben stiller has to derp de derp de derp de derp with electrodes on his testicles.

When you make war into a light comedy it's an attempt to gloss over its horror. I'm interested to know if you could make a light comedy about 9/11 for example*

There's a lot of talk about political correctness and how negative it all is - censorship can be incredibly negative - but in light of films like "A Serbian Film" (which is in itself an allegory for the Serbian war - albeit one Bloody Disgusting likened to "having his soul raped") it's becoming increasingly less valid because human beings seem unable to censor themselves..

*Chris Morris already made a light comedy about inept terrorists - Four Lions.. But how about one that shows the terrorists as cool wisecracking role models undergoing a de derp de derp to find C4 to blow up the plane - with HI-larious consequences.

I was really being facetious with my post, everything needs a grain of salt as it were, even with reviews or in fact any form of critical rhetoric. I guess my underlying sarcasm was more visible in my head, haha. What happened to the Ebert tv reviews, I always enjoyed his banter reviews with Siskel and Roeper.

Sure - WWII was a little more clearcut than the Vietnam war. For example the Vietnamese weren't blindfolding their POW's with razor wire and chucking them out of helicopters for fun.

The whole dynamic of Hogans Heroes works because they're the underdogs. Sadly in Vietnam, the Americans were the big bad invaders.

Oh yeah from Roger Ebert:

"I am not asking that "Operation Dumbo Drop" be hard-edged realism. It's not that kind of movie. I'm not even very bothered by the scene where the elephant's chute doesn't open, and Liotta goes into free-fall to save it. (No, he doesn't grab the elephant and open his own chute so they can ride down together.) What bothers me is that a chapter of our history is being rewritten and trivialized, as we win in the movie theaters a war that did not, in fact, turn out very well for us."
—Roger Ebert, writing in the Chicago Sun-Times[9]

Interestingly comparing this with "Good Morning Vietnam" which is a good comedy set in the Vietnam war - but which shows the vietnamese with pathos - is much more in line with Hogans Heroes / M*A*S*H* / Catch-22 - ie war is absurd, sympathy for the underdogs etc..

Oh yeah from Roger Ebert:

"I am not asking that "Operation Dumbo Drop" be hard-edged realism. It's not that kind of movie. I'm not even very bothered by the scene where the elephant's chute doesn't open, and Liotta goes into free-fall to save it. (No, he doesn't grab the elephant and open his own chute so they can ride down together.) What bothers me is that a chapter of our history is being rewritten and trivialized, as we win in the movie theaters a war that did not, in fact, turn out very well for us."
—Roger Ebert, writing in the Chicago Sun-Times[9]