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Old 10-03-2005, 07:21 PM
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Default Re: Greatest War Movie of All Time - Final Four

Platoon 37 25%

Full Metal Jacket 107 74%



These results look good. I applaud the FMJ voters. (NSFW audio)
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Old 10-03-2005, 07:32 PM
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how did platoon get here?
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Old 10-03-2005, 07:33 PM
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Old 10-03-2005, 08:07 PM
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It's just too bad about that ending. The sniper scene works as a structural parallel to the psychic destruction of the first half and does tie things together, but isn't remotely near its match, nor even sensible on its own. It works metaphorically on a number of levels very well, but is just frankly stupid as part of the fiction. I woulda shot her and so would 99% of everyone else, without anywhere near the drawn-out, super-milked drama of it. One way or another, she deserved it and one would be extremely strongly compelled to do it -- as an enemy killing your friends, and as someone in terrible pain with no hope, as a humanitarian gesture. Either way, the "decision" aspect of it wasn't really there, nor, after time spent in combat, would be the shock at the situation. Hell, it was crueler to keep her alive, in great pain but with no hope and scared as hell, staring at her, than it was to pop one in her skull and bring it to a merciful end. And frankly I think plenty of people wouldn't hesitate to do it just because they were pissed off or even because they got prejudiced before coming into the country or after getting shot at there for a while.

The flick fell apart at the end. Most do. It was a real shame that this one did, though.
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Old 10-03-2005, 08:19 PM
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i think I'm going to have to go with FMJ over Das Boot as greatest ever, if only because das Boot is in fact the greatest TV mini-series of all time, not the greatest movie.

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(Das Boot the fim is edited down from 5 hr miniseries- the DB directors cut edits back in about an hour of the miniseries.)
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