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STUPIDEST MOVIE I HAVE EVER SEEN!

posted 20 years ago by dieing_4life
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HELL IN THE PACIFIC. (SUMMARY)

Japenese and american pilot trapped on remote island. Japenese pilot captiors american. american escapes. captures japanese then lets loose. they build raft. sail to island. find abandoned american camp. japanese reads life magazine. gets pissed off. american gets pissed off. bomb blows them up. THE END.

there, in 5 seconds that is the movie.

I only finished watching the movie because usually there is something in the end that makes the body of the story come together and make sense. This movie is the boggest waste of time. I dont know what was going through the directors head when he made this but im sure one of his close relatives/friends had recently died or something.

[–] goodbyeleningoodbyestali 19 years ago

ARE YOU ON DRUGS....HONESTLY?
This is a really great movie. Toshirô Mifune is one of the best actors of all time.

[–] MFdeez_the_gypsy_catcher 19 years ago

i was planning on watching the movie but im not so sure since your little "synopsis" just ruined it for me. thanks a$$hole

[–] den_dennis 19 years ago

Thanks for the spoiler.. that's just what I wanted to hear. Put a friggin spoiler warning on your post!

[–] flyer333555 17 years ago

What did YOU expect on a thread with that title? WHY in HECK did you read it?

There was NO need to have the word "spoiler" with that title!

[–] onesummit 14 years ago

Lee Marvin was no slouch!

This I count as one of three greatest movies I've seen in 50 years!

[–] paul_borges 19 years ago

I agree that the ending was a big disappointment. If you watched it on DVD then you should have also checked-out the alternate ending. It still didn't wrap things up nicely but it made a little more sense. Otherwise the movie was good for what it was. The chemistry between Mifune and Marvin was great and, even though there wasn't really much that happened I was still interested in seeing how things would turn out (of course anyone who's read your post wouldn't have that luxury because they now know exactly what happens). But one thing that was really done well in this movie is that each of the characters have the same amount of dialog, but of course there are no subtitles. So if you were Japanese and watching this movie then you would be seeing it from a different point of view where the American would be the blabbering character that you couldn't understand. I wish I could watch it again where I understood Japanese but not English, it may make the movie a lot better.

[–] asier_9 19 years ago

Everybody's wrong but you, right? How about a much simpler answer, you just didn't get it. The movie is fine, poignant and purposeful. It was just beyond your ability to comprehend. It also comes as no surprise that you would be quick to place the blame somewhere else other than on yourself i.e. the movie was stupid not me. After all this movie was made before the trend to dumb everything in America down to the lowest common dominator existed.

A more honest subject for your post would have been, I couldn't understand this movie and therefor I didn't like it.

[–] rankio555 19 years ago

That ending did ruin the movie. The alternate ending should have really been used.

[–] flyer333555 17 years ago

Actually I agree with the OP. The ending is based on the wrong premise.

My father was drafted in ’43, posted to an antiaircraft artillery battalion in Panama. Went to Louisiana in ’44. The unit moved to Texas and California in ’45. Was posted back to Texas in July ’45 to train for the possible invasion of Japan. He came home with a notebook of his classes while in the US army.

On this notebook he had basic German commands. Sit down. Come here. Stop. The numbers from 1 to 10. On this notebook he had names for maps in Italian. He had Japanese characters for maps. If the training had gone on as scheduled, I believe he would have had more Japanese language classes. The A bombs intervened, his training ceased and his battalion was disbanded soon after they were dropped.

It stands to believe that although the military would not have trained a real-life Marine in this situation to be a Japanese conversationalist, he should have had some basic Japanese. There were a lot of Japs which attended Western universities before they were in the military. So again it stands to reason that a real-life Japanese officer in this situation would have been able to communicate.

But I guess that if Hollywood would follow real-life rules we would not have many thought-provoking films.

I understood the ending yet I still did not like it for reasons I posted above.

[–] Tristan-21 18 years ago

Stupidest review I have ever seen. Looks like empirical evidence supportive of the adage "Children are best seen and not heard."

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[–] thewholebrevitything 17 years ago

I concur

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[–] Demarates 17 years ago

I agree, this movie totally ripped off Enemy Mine. And Castaway too.

I am not a complete idiot. Some parts are missing.

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[–] flyer333555 17 years ago

This film is older than the two films you mention.

Enemy Mine=1980s?
Castaway (Tom Hanks?)=1990s?

So how can it rip them? If anything else, those films you mentioned are rip-offs of this movie with a different ending.

[–] Suzume-san 17 years ago

Wow, flyer, you fell for it, hook, line and sinker.

Kambei of the Descending Gormful Bedafter Gumi.

[–] lramos7 17 years ago

What do you mean?

Are you implying this poster is a troll?

I do not mind replying to this post, as it does not harm me in the least!

[note - this is flyer333555's other account]

[–] Suzume-san 17 years ago

Fly fishing is a great sport.

[–] imakarum_mirabilis 17 years ago

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[–] Suzume-san 17 years ago

Aren't the bimbominkia lovely this year? Would you like to take a cutting?