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Post by Popeye Doyle on Dec 31, 2023 14:36:50 GMT
Vietnam vet returns from an extended stay at the Hanoi Hilton to find a son who barely knows him and a wife who wants a divorce. Those issues are really not that important because they get killed by some lowlifes over $2,500 worth of silver coins. Oh, said lowlifes Munson the poor vet through the use of a Garburator.
I was expecting a bloody tale of revenge. Such violence is really saved for the last few minutes when, joined with Tommy Lee Jones, the lead character shoot up a brothel pretty good. Instead, the movie seems more interested in the psychological scars left by war. Of the performers, Linda Haynes fares the best as a self admitted groupie to William Devane’s lead character. Jones is absent for much of the movie until he locks and loads with no questions asked.
Is the movie worth seeing? If you set your expectations, you might get some value from it. It’s not a bad movie but I don’t see myself revisiting it anytime again.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Dec 31, 2023 14:41:16 GMT
It's a standard revenge tale, nothing more.
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Post by movielover on Dec 31, 2023 15:28:14 GMT
Vietnam vet returns from an extended stay at the Hanoi Hilton to find a son who barely knows him and a wife who wants a divorce. Those issues are really not that important because they get killed by some lowlifes over $2,500 worth of silver coins. Oh, said lowlifes Munson the poor vet through the use of a Garburator. I was expecting a bloody tale of revenge. Such violence is really saved for the last few minutes when, joined with Tommy Lee Jones, the lead character shoot up a brothel pretty good. Instead, the movie seems more interested in the psychological scars left by war. Of the performers, Linda Haynes fares the best as a self admitted groupie to William Devane’s lead character. Jones is absent for much of the movie until he locks and loads with no questions asked. Is the movie worth seeing? If you set your expectations, you might get some value from it. It’s not a bad movie but I don’t see myself revisiting it anytime again. Keep in mind, it was written by Paul Schrader.
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Post by petrolino on Jan 1, 2024 0:40:14 GMT
I love this movie, but I like the crime work of Paul Schrader and director John Flynn generally. Quentin Tarantino named his dvd label Rolling Thunder Pictures after it.
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Post by Catman on Jan 1, 2024 10:18:28 GMT
Catman thinks of this movie whenever he runs the garbage disposal.
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Post by vegalyra on Jan 1, 2024 11:26:08 GMT
I love this movie, but I like the crime work of Paul Schrader and director John Flynn generally. Quentin Tarantino named his dvd label Rolling Thunder Pictures after it. He (QT) talks about the film at some length in his book. I’ve actually never seen it.
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Post by petrolino on Jan 2, 2024 20:58:49 GMT
I love this movie, but I like the crime work of Paul Schrader and director John Flynn generally. Quentin Tarantino named his dvd label Rolling Thunder Pictures after it. He (QT) talks about the film at some length in his book. I’ve actually never seen it.
I read (and enjoyed) the book 'Cinema Speculation'. QT writes about Martin Scorsese's 'Taxi Driver' (1976) at length also. If you add in Sydney Pollack's 'The Yakuza' (1974) and Brian De Palma's 'Obsession' (1976), as well as Paul Schrader's own films 'Blue Collar' (1978) and 'Hardcore' (1979), that's some gritty output in the crime genre when it comes to 1970s American cinema.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Jan 2, 2024 21:31:19 GMT
Great movie and, as mentioned, Quentin Tarantino loves it. Might as well put in a plug. Tarantino's "The Video Archives" podcast is fantastic if you want to hear him and others discuss movies.
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Post by novastar6 on Jan 3, 2024 7:56:40 GMT
I loved it.
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