This seems to be more the copying and pasting of bits and pieces of basic training movies than a free standing and enjoyable film. Cliche and predictable scene, one after another, like a Frankenstein's monster made of the derialed corpse's of Stripes and Full Metal Jacket, but it spares is the imagery of R. Lee Ermey spinning in his grave.
The characters are as lifeless as cookies cut from the general issue character molds they come from. The racist, the bully, the intellectual, the fairy, the wise guy. All go about as much development and back story and arch as cookie dough thrown into the trash before it's been removed from it's mass produced packaging. One has been singled out with a bit of development only to be cut down, ripped from the film and never to be heard from again.
Once the dairy coma subsided, a result of spoiled cheesy humor, was gone I foolishly believed we had reached a message or theme. About the mistreatment of minorities, homosexuals in particular, by exploring and possibly redeaming a prejudged person. Nope. Just a side show to the circus.
Did we at least discuss racial tensions of the time by devoting more than a dry fart to a biracial character and witness the growth of men and triumph over ignorance and possibly even have speak a word to the topic of character over someone's skin color? Nope again. This was glossed over faster than you could crop dust your own pants.
Oh, I've got it. Maybe the film has one thing to say about leadership, or why we fought, or unquestionable following of orders and loyalty vs logic, truth, and intelligence. Wrong again. The sole disciplinary is later reduced to a loony and the smartest of the pack is a winny little know it all who's got enough folly to warrant a hold on the praise. We could have seen an interesting test of integry and character instead of the typical scene where the guy everyone hates takes the fall for a crime he didn't commit. Give me a break.
So much room to be something different. Such potential. It could have been a great movie with the cast it had. Might as well have had a cast on while going on that swamp hike that took place on "generic military movie swamp set #5". Maybe of they didn't waste time on the prostitute scene, which adds nothing to the film, or the scene with that girl he dates. You know that girl, what's her name. Sue? Carly? Rebecca? Maggie? I can't remember her during her 1 minute of screen time.
I also just want to add how awkward that prostitute scene was. Yuck. That fake dialogue and just how incredibly purposless the whole ordeal was. Why was this included. Is it to show his growth? His compromise of morals we never see? Maybe his instanious desire for adulthood maybe? I don't think anyone knew. Lazy sex scene perhaps? Your guess is as good as mine.
The few good nuggets are the jokes told by Sgt. Tummy. Too bad to get those nuggets you have to excovate through a mountain of refuse.
Would I watch this again? No. Would I recommend it to anyone? No. Would I give this movie as a gag gift? Yeah why not.
Well maybe I'd watch it if the alternative choice was to watch paint dry...and I had no paint to watch. This does bear well to fight off existential dread.
The characters are as lifeless as cookies cut from the general issue character molds they come from. The racist, the bully, the intellectual, the fairy, the wise guy. All go about as much development and back story and arch as cookie dough thrown into the trash before it's been removed from it's mass produced packaging. One has been singled out with a bit of development only to be cut down, ripped from the film and never to be heard from again.
Once the dairy coma subsided, a result of spoiled cheesy humor, was gone I foolishly believed we had reached a message or theme. About the mistreatment of minorities, homosexuals in particular, by exploring and possibly redeaming a prejudged person. Nope. Just a side show to the circus.
Did we at least discuss racial tensions of the time by devoting more than a dry fart to a biracial character and witness the growth of men and triumph over ignorance and possibly even have speak a word to the topic of character over someone's skin color? Nope again. This was glossed over faster than you could crop dust your own pants.
Oh, I've got it. Maybe the film has one thing to say about leadership, or why we fought, or unquestionable following of orders and loyalty vs logic, truth, and intelligence. Wrong again. The sole disciplinary is later reduced to a loony and the smartest of the pack is a winny little know it all who's got enough folly to warrant a hold on the praise. We could have seen an interesting test of integry and character instead of the typical scene where the guy everyone hates takes the fall for a crime he didn't commit. Give me a break.
So much room to be something different. Such potential. It could have been a great movie with the cast it had. Might as well have had a cast on while going on that swamp hike that took place on "generic military movie swamp set #5". Maybe of they didn't waste time on the prostitute scene, which adds nothing to the film, or the scene with that girl he dates. You know that girl, what's her name. Sue? Carly? Rebecca? Maggie? I can't remember her during her 1 minute of screen time.
I also just want to add how awkward that prostitute scene was. Yuck. That fake dialogue and just how incredibly purposless the whole ordeal was. Why was this included. Is it to show his growth? His compromise of morals we never see? Maybe his instanious desire for adulthood maybe? I don't think anyone knew. Lazy sex scene perhaps? Your guess is as good as mine.
The few good nuggets are the jokes told by Sgt. Tummy. Too bad to get those nuggets you have to excovate through a mountain of refuse.
Would I watch this again? No. Would I recommend it to anyone? No. Would I give this movie as a gag gift? Yeah why not.
Well maybe I'd watch it if the alternative choice was to watch paint dry...and I had no paint to watch. This does bear well to fight off existential dread.