THIS MOVIE IS HILARIOUS

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"I didn't see anyone mention this one. The part where there is a japanese sniper like a 300 yards away killing US marines and no one with an M1 garand can take him out, BUT Cage can with his tommy shooting from the hip WHILE RUNNING!!"

Funniest part of the movie. The Japanese need a high-powered rifle to snipe from that far away, but Cage just needs a Thompson.

Nobody actually uses tactics in this movie either. They just charge at each other.

i find it interesting that posters are angry and consider laughing at this film disrepsect. the movie does have a moral and is trying to make a point. It Just FAILS. and miserably. the only interest i had in this initially was the fact it involved the pacific theatre and island hopping. IF you want to see something with meaning, see something else for christ sake. When you combine John Woo with a historically important war movie you should know what's going to happen..not only that, but a John Woo film with CHRISTIAN SLATER and Nicholas Cage. The action in this film is comporable to a steven segal movie. Also the soldiers dont use any fire/manuever tactics..they just run around...or something. I saw this movie in theatres and it is still easy to rememebr how damn funny it is.

Reading all these comments made me laughing so hard I actually want to watch the movie again and laugh my ass off even more. ><

Hmm, well let's see. What did I find funny?

- Cage firing the Thompson one handed.

- The guy who gets shot, falls on the mine and get thrown spiralling through the air.

- Near the end where Cage blindly shoots his Colt .45 three times and bingo, three Japanese soldiers fall dead.

- The Japanese suddenly becoming super-accurate when it comes to hitting mines to blow them up right under the Americans.

- Cage mercilessly blowing away dozens of Japanese soldiers from the side while they aren't even looking at him (when he falls into the bunker after the "prisoner" scene) and afterwards when the smoke clears you see the trench absolutely full of dead soldiers.

- Just the shameless, blatant, in-your-face cliches in general really... Big, dumb, rascist, country soldier (with heavy weapon naturally), guy offering child chocolate then sacrificing himself to save her from gunfire, man the list could go on and on.
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The funniest part of this movie (already mentioned) was when Whitehorse threw his knife near Chick, and somehow knew that a Japanese guy would run in front of it and die. It takes about 5 seconds to get there, and of all places, the Japanese guy runs there. LOL

And how about the final fight scene, where the Japanese artillerymen fire from miles off with a gigantic cannon, and somehow manage to hit the convoy perfectly. Then, when the cannon gets blown up, the soldiers are at random places that wouldn't even cover them. They get up and let out a "yeeeaaahhh!"
LOL

Agreed. Encrypting bombing coordinates? Did they really do that? Sounds like wasted time.

It's also a common movie cliché that the arse-saving artillery always hits right on. They were 2 for 2, even though they fired like 5 shells; which went off into lala land.

Thanks.

A failure as a soldier, a victory as a human being.