Im 19 years old and i viewed this film when i was probably only 10 years old. It was on T.V. on a veterans day and I watched the whole thing. I can still vividly remember the scene where some guy gets his arm blown off by a land mine and he then rolls over onto another one. For some reason i found this disturbing. Anybody else?
shareI saw the movie in the theatre as a kid, younger than you were. It disturbed me so much that when I forgot everything else, that scene and that scream stayed with me. For decades.
Years later I saw it again, saw the scene and the whole thing came back to me. That was Cpl Henshaw, James Coburn. I remembered his glasses shattering and everything. Only now I knew he was carrying an M-2 flamethrower, and I knew what the five pounds of napalm inside the pressurized tank could do to a man. I was disturbed all over again.
Powerful movie. Wonderful juxtaposition of the horror, the excitement, the unintended humor of war. See this film and "Catch-22" back-to-back. You'll be amazed how alike they are.
progan01
No humor in "Hell is for Heroes".
"Catch-22" was satirical.
Like "Dr. Strangelove".
But I think I get your basic drift.
In Windtalkers(not exactly good), a similar thing happens to a grunt..i think he gets shot and lands on a couple mines...bad stuff..
"I wish you was a wishin' well. So I could tie a bucket to ya' and sink ya'."
Imagine how the guy who got his guts blown out felt like....and this happened day after day, week after week, during countless campaigns across Europe and Asia. I am not disturbed by this at all, in comparison to today the violence in this was childs play.
Are you disturbed by Tarrentino's sensless orgies of violence? This movie had a method to its madness...The Second World War...and depicted it brilliantly, and in B & W....guys like Tarrentino make sensless garbage designed to impress young idiots such as yourself
Go hug another tree you sissy
It must feel nice using the actual sacrifices real GIs suffered in World War II as an excuse for trolling, jjman. Makes you feel real big.
Go get some perspective, you loon.
most people dont have enough knowledge of american pop culture to respect tarantinos work. i suppose your one of them. I also suppose that your rather ignorant and uneducated when you said the violence today is greater than that of world war 2. World war 2 was the costliest war in the history of humanity. sure there are violent conflicts all over the world today but none on the scale of world war 2. you sir are worse than a young idiot, you are an old idiot.
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You must be related to me as my Grandmother's Maiden name was Blankenship. But to the topic, it's more disturbing reading some of these post's. There was plenty of humor in HIFH, Bob Newhart and Bobby Darin had plenty of funny gags goin', and I think that another poster was referring to how much violence in the movies has changed. But then I could be wrong and he really is a complete Idiot.
The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get!
This may sound funny (but it really isn't).
When a guy went out in an ambush or night patrol or operation...
"Hey, if you get zapped can I have your radio?"
Dark humor for 19 year olds.