TheMeeper Wrote:
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> tomahawk Wrote:
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> > +1 on Heartbreak Ridge. Improvise, adapt,
> > overcome.
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> Heh, I watched it again this morning. It's a good
> plot if you can suspend disbelief in terms of
> comic relief. 80s cheesy-ness abounds. This
> movie was a vehicle for Eastwood's tough-guy
> talk-shit acting. No other actor could star in
> this. It's all about Eastwood playing the awesome
> character of Gunny Highway.
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> The juvenile homophobic insults in this movie are
> epic too. Classic Esstwood dialog.
The best thing about that movie is that it captured America's uncertainty about war following Vietnam. Today, nobody would really think twice if we invaded a place like Grenada. But when it happened in the early 80s, it was a shock that we could actually do it without fucking something up.
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