Why is this movie so unpopular?

It's not unpopular. I think it's that kind of movie that people love to love secretly. It's hard to talk about it afterwards, because it has a personal quality......and it is very unique, so difficult to discuss in any obvious sense.

One of my favourite movies of all time.

:-D

because no one give I flying toot about the soldiers that were in the gulf war. gyyylleneenhaal was a whiny pussy about being a marine, and so was saararagaggaarrd.

It's a film about a marine at war. Yeah it's great but how popular do you expect it to be?

The gulf war was over so relatively quickly, I think it shocked everybody as to how well it went. People were predicting another long, drawn-out Vietnam-type war.

The pundits declared that the U.S. had finally gotten over the Vietnam War and that the U.S. military was practically invincible.

In such an environment a movie about the difficulties of being in the U.S. military during the victorious Gulf War simply wasn't going to play that well. I think that is something that has stuck to this movie ever since.

Its funny that this is classed as a war but Americans insist on calling Vietnam a conflict because they got their asses handed to them by a massively inferior force.

No idea. I liked it alot

False advertising.

~ I'm a 21st century man and I don't wanna be here.

Cause it came out over a decade ago and people generally move on to talking about newer movies.