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 The choice to unquestioningly adapt a story that ignores the Vietnamese experience, expects sympathy for a US Army character responsible for a civilian massacre and treads the well-worn and offensive cliché that the biggest tragedy of the war was The Loss of American…

I did check the numbers on Wikipedia on the offchance they might come up – I believe 2m is the Vietnamese government version, and includes deaths caused by administrative chaos and the whole post-war mess. Isn’t 800,000ish the agreed-upon figure for military-caused civilian deaths in the actual war period? Not that it…

I did check the numbers on Wikipedia on the offchance they might come up – I believe 2m is the Vietnamese government version, and includes deaths caused by administrative chaos and the whole post-war mess. Isn’t 800,000ish the agreed-upon figure for military-caused civilian deaths in the actual war period? Not that it…

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There are some Vietnam films that redress the balance – Heaven and Earth, I agree, is one. For all its mawkishness, Good Morning Vietnam does pretty well and even suggests that some Vietnamese might have legitimate reasons to oppose the US army presence - although it…

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There are some Vietnam films that redress the balance – Heaven and Earth, I agree, is one. For all its mawkishness, Good Morning Vietnam does pretty well and even suggests that some Vietnamese might have legitimate reasons to oppose the US army presence - although it…

Gay != Creepy. That’s sort of the point – not only is the film’s basic thesis that the gays did it, it proposes that they plotted it all at the rapey, gold-painted baby-fetish orgies they’re perpetually having in Garrison’s clearly fevered mind.

Gay != Creepy. That’s sort of the point – not only is the film’s basic thesis that the gays did it, it proposes that they plotted it all at the rapey, gold-painted baby-fetish orgies they’re perpetually having in Garrison’s clearly fevered mind.

The film didn’t have to tell this story, and it didn’t have to do it in the way it did. Stone manipulates us into having more sympathy for Ron Kovics than he may well deserve by allowing us to keep the suffering he and others like him caused, and the outrageous nature of the war itself, out of mind. Films like this…

The film didn’t have to tell this story, and it didn’t have to do it in the way it did. Stone manipulates us into having more sympathy for Ron Kovics than he may well deserve by allowing us to keep the suffering he and others like him caused, and the outrageous nature of the war itself, out of mind. Films like this…

I concur with most posters – as film-making, JFK is (when it’s not hanging around Jim Garrison’s house) absolutely compelling. Cast at the top of their game, amazing editing
 
As an attempt to create a convincing conspiracy around JFK’s death it’s terrible nonsense – its logic falls apart within the film itself, let…

I concur with most posters – as film-making, JFK is (when it’s not hanging around Jim Garrison’s house) absolutely compelling. Cast at the top of their game, amazing editing
 
As an attempt to create a convincing conspiracy around JFK’s death it’s terrible nonsense – its logic falls apart within the film itself, let…

Alas, this really does for me sit in the slightly morally reprehensible genre of ‘nam movie where the main problem with massacring peasants as part of a profoundly spurious war is that it made the people who were doing it really, really sad afterwards. ‘Woe is me! My innocence and naïve faith in my country is going up…

Alas, this really does for me sit in the slightly morally reprehensible genre of ‘nam movie where the main problem with massacring peasants as part of a profoundly spurious war is that it made the people who were doing it really, really sad afterwards. ‘Woe is me! My innocence and naïve faith in my country is going up…

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It also tells us that even 300 years hence in a post-scarcity future, Nokia will still be around, for some reason.

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It also tells us that even 300 years hence in a post-scarcity future, Nokia will still be around, for some reason.

@avclub-0f0e555f34cf9e7db7cf6f5f1e56f59c:disqus With the exception of Anne Widdecombe - who's thankfully been cast out into the light entertainment jungle - Michael Gove is about as close as the UK has had to a proper wingnut in government.

@avclub-0f0e555f34cf9e7db7cf6f5f1e56f59c:disqus With the exception of Anne Widdecombe - who's thankfully been cast out into the light entertainment jungle - Michael Gove is about as close as the UK has had to a proper wingnut in government.

We have that in the UK too. The full construct is 'ZanuLiarBore', to indicate that, somehow, Gordon Brown had made Britain worse than Zimbabwe under a dictatorship.

We have that in the UK too. The full construct is 'ZanuLiarBore', to indicate that, somehow, Gordon Brown had made Britain worse than Zimbabwe under a dictatorship.

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