The inner workings of the writer, gadfly, and all around odd bird, Stacie Ferrante
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Public Service Announcement-War Movies
Photo credit: From the movie "Flags of Our Fathers"
It is official. I never need to see another war movie. At first I was going to say that I am fed up to the gills with movies that touch on the Vietnam War. But when I thought about it some more, I think all war. Yup. I'm cooked on war movies in general.
It isn't that the violence bothers me per se, but I think it is fair to say that I never want to see "Saving Private Ryan" ever again. That movie upset me. I just think that there are so many films that do it poorly. And I just crave more original stories than those that seem to come out of that genre.
I don't have a specific thing that set me off about this, and I guess I am not really that mad, but I just threw up my hands when I saw that the movie "Across the Universe" veered in that direction. I just didn't get that movie. The music was cool (who doesn't love the Beatles?), but I was just annoyed with the story that they wound around it.
Feh.
So, that's it. I'm over the whole Vietnam Era. Yup.
That is all.
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