I started to watch it, but couldn’t stomach. There is a smarmy, all-knowing special snowflake narrator who set the tone.
Sounds like a really stupid movie.
Brad Pitt? Was Pee Wee Herman not available?
I thought I tossed Brad Pitt some change on a street corner the other day.
Sounds a little like “Catch 22”.
Brad Pitt??? since when does a ‘snowflake’ like him have any brains??? I wouldn’t waste the money or the time to watch anything this jackass has to say or do...
And he hasn’t been in the service in REAL LIFE, nor has he been a GENERAL IN REAL LIFE so how the crap would he know what goes on...play acting is a whole lot different than being there in REAL LIFE WITH REAL BULETTS COMING AT YOU...such a stupid dork idiot!!!
I purposely avoid Brad Pitt films.
Only because we REFUSED to fight it the proper way. Thanks duh-bya, you weak c--t of a fool. And I won't even get into what the POS after him did.
I don’t care to see another one these types of movies. Seen enough.
No and why would I want to?
Peter Maass is a journalist of lefty note writing in a dubious source The Intercept
I mean....really?
It was a very bad movie. I think it was a comedy and I didn’t find any of it funny. Stopped watching about 15 minutes from the end.
I’ve seen it. It was okay, not bad but not that good. The point the movie seems to be trying to make is that the Afghanistan war (as it is currently being fought) is not winnable. Personally, I don’t disagree with that.
Pitt is basically playing the same character he did in “Inglorious Basterds”, except that he is a Four-star general here. The movie is clearly based on the events leading up to the firing of General McChrystal. It is also not very complementary toward Obama. I thought the whole thing ended too abruptly. There was also no good explanation for why Pitt’s character let the Rolling Stone report have the access he did.
Saw it, hated it.
Haven’t seen it, but that exchange about “it” would have been fantastic with that big blowhard who played the occasionally visiting general in the classic early years of M*A*S*H — by which I mean the years it was downright hilarious thanks to Larry Gelbart. The actor who played the general escapes me, but he was PERFECT in that part.
“Brad Pitt’s “War Machine” Offers an Absurd and Scathing Critique of America’s Delusional Generals”
Truth be told, what it offers is a chemical-free alternative to Sominex. Probably the worst film I’ve seen (the first 10 minutes of) all year.
Wasn’t able to watch more than about 20 minutes of it.
It's in my queue. Looks interesting. Trying to find the time.
“What doesn’t happen, sir?” a Marine asks.
“It, son,” the general responds.
The Marine knows it would be unwise to demand a full explanation.
“Okay, thank you sir.”
The general, who doesn’t know better, bulls ahead.
“Does anyone here know what it is?” he asks.
Silence.
“Anyone? Anyone?”
Given the responses I'm seeing on this thread, I wonder how many people here can really appreciate just how on-the-nose this interaction is?
Re-watching “Firebase Gloria” now.
Just missed Nam myself, but it seems like what the guys experienced- at times.
Don’t think I’ll be watching a movie that has a correspondent’s viewpoint. What would be the point?