Wednesday, April 27, 2011

A recent trend in movie-making takes another look at standard genres and revises

their supposed agendas. Clint Eastwood’s UNFORGIVEN showed us a Western whose hero was a gun-toting murderer. Steven Spielberg made perhaps the finest war movie ever in SAVING PRIVATE RYAN. My point is that RYAN has been advertised not as a war Doctor Who series 5 dvdmovie, but an "anti-war" movie. Taking a look at John Wayne’s efforts in SANDS OF IWO JIMA, I cannot see how he or the film praises war. I cannot see, especially with the anti-climatic ending, how this narrative uses war for the mindless support of political causes.

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Two of Stryker’s men take his treatment personally

As Corporal Thomas, Forrest Tucker hates Stryker’s guts because Stryker beat him in a divisional boxing match some time earlier. The old grudge surfaces until they are, once again, engaged in fisticuffs. Only this time a colonel spots the sergeant beating up on hisThe Beatles: Stereo Box Set own man, and we watch one Marine show his loyalty to another Marine, when Thomas claims Stryker was only instructing him in combat judo. In Thomas’ confession to Stryker just after their make-up, we see the effects of a very sticky moral situation, a scene that would hold its own with any ethical dilemma I can think of in movies. Pfc. Peter Conway’s hatred of Stryker is more complicated. He is a Harvard-educated businessman, an amateur soldier here to fight the war and then return home. When Conway marries and later Michael Jackson the Ultimate Collector dvdreceives a letter from his wife, telling of their newborn baby, we see Stryker’s jealousy. The only question at this point is how will Conway (played by John Agar) come to terms with his sergeant?

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Tuesday, April 26, 2011

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Monday, April 25, 2011

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Sunday, April 24, 2011

If it's Earth Day

It must be time for a new documentary from Disneynature, the Walt Disney imprint devoted to wildlife films.
Previous Aprils have brought the Two and a Half Men dvdtranscendent "Earth" (2009) and "Oceans" (2010) and now comes the more prosaic but still captivating and gorgeously shot "African Cats," a year in the life of a group of lions and cheetahsBones dvd on the Kenyan savannah.
"African Cats" is also appropriate for Mother's Day as it's the female cats who are the heroes. There's Layla, an aging and infirm lioness struggling to keep up with her daughter, Mara, and the pride that has no use for the sick and the weak. And there's solitary Sita, a cheetah with three cubs whoHouse MD dvd doesn't have the luxury of a pride for protection and food.