Notes about this movie

* This movie is really slow. I mean, really.
* It has so many annoying characters, especially Carlyle and the two officers playing hide and seek. Billy and Roger were sporadically annoying, especially toward the beginning.
* It felt like a play. I checked here afterwards and yep, it was originally a play. It took place in a single location. (Not that this is a bad thing, only that it felt like a recorded play rather than an actual movie.)
* How could Billy and Roger think Richie might actually might be not gay? It was obvious to me that he was supposed to be the moment he opened his mouth.
* How could such an obviously gay man even get into the army? I mean, this was a long time before "Don't Ask, Don't Tell."
* He did provide us with some eye candy, though: shirtless in a few scene, and with a some shots of his butt.
* And Carlyle called him cute. I thought that was weird. I mean, he obviously was, but a straight guy admitting that is a rarity.
* Speaking of Carlyle, he was obviously insane from the get go. I think Roger was crazy for letting him hang around. Maybe the tragedy is indirectly Roger's fault.
* I liked the discussion about the snakes in the cave. I know it's probably not true and really doesn't make sense, but that's the kind of stuff I was under the impression that the bulk of this movie was going to be, judging from the promo on IFC: scared young men fearing war and death.
* Oh yeah, I really hated how the movie was polluted with the words *beep* and *beep* Come on, there was no reason for that kind of disrespectful language.


EDIT: LOL, I knew it! IMDb censored n!gger and f@ggot. I hope no one was confused about the words to which I was referring.