View Full Version : Who else found 'We Were Soldiers' nauseating?
Just the other night i watched the Mel Gibson Vietnam war flick "We Were Soldiers". Its the movie where you can pinpoint the moment Mel went from being a movie star to a bible thumping religous nutbag. In particular that scene in the hospital chapel where Mel's character is asking god to 'ignore those little commie bastards heathen prayers and let us blow them all to hell'.
I dont know if it was just me, but i found We Were Soldiers to be a truly repulsive bit of work that was blatantly post 9/11 'Patriot cinema', and blatantly aimed at the Bush voting 'God/War/Apple Pie' demographic.
Other contenders for worst ever American military propaganda piece masquerading as entertainment post 9/11 include...
* Black Hawk Down....
* Tears Of The Sun...
Just the other night i watched the Mel Gibson Vietnam war flick "We Were Soldiers". Its the movie where you can pinpoint the moment Mel went from being a movie star to a bible thumping religous nutbag. In particular that scene in the hospital chapel where Mel's character is asking god to 'ignore those little commie bastards heathen prayers and let us blow them all to hell'.
I dont know if it was just me, but i found We Were Soldiers to be a truly repulsive bit of work that was blatantly post 9/11 'Patriot cinema', and blatantly aimed at the Bush voting 'God/War/Apple Pie' demographic.
Other contenders for worst ever American military propaganda piece masquerading as entertainment post 9/11 include...
* Black Hawk Down....
* Tears Of The Sun...
Bah - black hawk down was a great moofie. Considering the amount of f*ck up it showed in the operation, i doubt you could call it a piece of American propoganda.
Slacker
18 Jan 2006, 12:54
Bah - black hawk down was a great moofie. Considering the amount of f*ck up it showed in the operation, i doubt you could call it a piece of American propoganda.
Yeah, BHD was a damn good movie IMO. The flag waving was pretty minimal in the whole scheme of things.
Right on the money about WWS though, what a stinking pile that movie was. The soldier who was happy to die for his country
the thing about the no coloured laundromat
the praying with the kiddies
Mel being able to read the mind of his opponent - "they'll come up that gully next".
The sergeant who would only use a pistol cause he was so tough.
Wasn't it on TV a while back?
I think I turned it off after 30 mins....
thought it was Sh*t House
TheColeTrain
18 Jan 2006, 15:52
Other contenders for worst ever American military propaganda piece masquerading as entertainment post 9/11 include...
* Black Hawk Down....
* Tears Of The Sun...
nothing comes close to the crappiness of Pearl Harbour:thumbsd:
Yeah, BHD was a damn good movie IMO. The flag waving was pretty minimal in the whole scheme of things.
Right on the money about WWS though, what a stinking pile that movie was. The soldier who was happy to die for his country
the thing about the no coloured laundromat
the praying with the kiddies
Mel being able to read the mind of his opponent - "they'll come up that gully next".
The sergeant who would only use a pistol cause he was so tough.
The thing that makes me laugh is that in his book which the movie is based on Colonel Hal Moore complained about all the other Nam movies and how 'every damn one of them got it wrong'...I guess it offends 'patriots' like Moore to see depictions of moral ambiguity and the futitlity of the war (ala Full Metal Jacket and Platoon) and instead they would just prefer to just look back on the war with their Christian evangelical, apple pie Americana, might is right, rose cloured glasses...
Mr Magoo
18 Jan 2006, 20:40
Jarhead >> the majority of war movies
Falchoon
18 Jan 2006, 21:01
Anyone ever watched Braveheart and The Patriot back to back?