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I'm English...what was the piont of this story?

posted 16 years ago by Moss-37
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Seen this movie twice now in the space of twenty years.What on earth was it all about?Didn't find the 'humour' once funny.(even though I love Mr williams in so many of his films).What was so shocking about his DJ style?Why was it shocking he was playing the hit tunes of the day?The story was a non event in my book,I just can't stop wondering 'so what dude...big deal'
It just seemed to me the typical way an American film making a whole big deal over some true life character that didn't change a dam thing in history.Won't be watching this crass movie again while im breathing old chum.

[–] avortac4 (3744) 2 years ago

I wondered about the same thing - I still don't get the point of this whole movie, besides the two things that are obvious: 1) This is a vehicle for Robin (though it fails at that) 2) Military always wants to make war movies and push war agendas and show 'troops' (camouflage-dressed murderers that have historically destroyed the lives of millions of innocent people for no good reason) as some kind of normal guys and 'good people', even 'heroic'.

So Robin + Military agenda = this movie with so many 'Vietnam war movie tropes' you could drown in them.

I just wish the comedy bits were at least funny, though.