Posted on 12/13/2019 4:26:39 PM PST by Borges
I don’t think anyone thinks they were thE epitome of manhood
It was hinted Pitts character was a combat vet
WWII or Korea
Joker is so gloomy
You are younger than I suspected mariner
Not an insult
Down girl.
I notice it’s available for rental on Amazon Prime. I might take a peek.
And since the author mentioned Mel Gibson, might I suggest his movie, “Blood Father.”
Pretty damn good film that didn’t get a lot of attention.
The reviewer did - and you're right, the movie did hint that the stuntman was a combat vet and the men in their 40s back then were WWII vets.
I remember marveling that people back then admired football players and others of their ilk when tens of thousands of young American were facing death and dismemberment, disease and misery for them halfway around the world.
No comparison.
He had my undivided attention!
“The reviewer refers to the Manson Family as “hippies” - they weren’t hippies; they were murderous cultists. “
I knew a couple of the Manson family. One from high school a year or so before the killings. He would try to get us to go up to Hollywood with him and hang out with the Family. Another was a young woman I worked with in the early 70s.
They were basically teen runaways. Sad cases from tough home lives who started hanging out on the streets of Hollywood and ended up as part of the Manson family. Not involved in the killings, just part of the larger group.
People tend to conflate hippies with the Leftist “antiwar” activists, partially because we prefer to remember the past as something benign.
Hippies were primarily into the “counter culture” stuff: communal living, free love, drugs, and mooching. They weren’t violent and they had no world view beyond having a great time and not worrying about the future. Also known as Flower Children.
The antiwar movement was actually a pro-enemy movement fun by hard-eyed “movement heavies” and run at the very top by either the CPUSA or the Socialist Worker’s Party, depending on which branch they belonged to. Their goal was to defeat the United States. They had essentially command centers, safe houses and their own communications system and regularly scheduled coordination runs to Hanoi and Moscow. They were not hippies.
Your friends who hung out at Spahn Ranch had some aspects of hippies but everything was centered on Charlie and his whims. The movie does a good job of illustrating the situation and relationships there.
It is worth watching. Best movie I’ve seen this year (there are precious few). Completely unexpected, in every way.
This is just my opinion of course. Others may have enjoyed it.
It’s about that cultural moment. The ambience was just as important as the characters.
Just saw it, loved it. As much as I can’t stand DiCaprio in real life, he was good in this. And Pitt was good, too.
And don’t skip out on the credits.
Sylvia Sidney was the one in Mars Attacks who said “They Blew up Congress.....HA HA HA HA!”
Charles Manson gets a songwriting credit! The girls are singing a song of his while dumpster diving at the start.
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