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Why is this movie so unpopular?


I never hear of it, it's never played on TV, it's not well regarded, there's barely any posts. I think it's Sam Mendes at his best. It's truly a great film, and incredibly well shot.

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It's not unpopular. I think it's that kind of movie that people love to love secretly. It's hard to talk about it afterwards, because it has a personal quality......and it is very unique, so difficult to discuss in any obvious sense.

One of my favourite movies of all time.

:-D

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because no one give I flying toot about the soldiers that were in the gulf war. gyyylleneenhaal was a whiny pussy about being a marine, and so was saararagaggaarrd.

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Trolly but accurate.

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It's a film about a marine at war. Yeah it's great but how popular do you expect it to be?

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The gulf war was over so relatively quickly, I think it shocked everybody as to how well it went. People were predicting another long, drawn-out Vietnam-type war.

The pundits declared that the U.S. had finally gotten over the Vietnam War and that the U.S. military was practically invincible.

In such an environment a movie about the difficulties of being in the U.S. military during the victorious Gulf War simply wasn't going to play that well. I think that is something that has stuck to this movie ever since.

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I'm amazed there are only 2 posts here. Not the greatest movie I've ever seen, but well worth a discussion.

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It's popular in some circles, groups, blogs, etc, IMO is not the kind of movie you would want to discuss a lot afterwards. BUT the movie has over 140k votes! I'm sure there were a lot of threads here. They have most likely been deleted for lack of replies or for something else.

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I just recently saw it . I liked it, but like most war movies it was hard to watch at times and some of the more gruesome scenes were hard to shake. I actually had a bad dream about one of the scenes. I was also surprised to see there was not much discussion here.

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Its funny that this is classed as a war but Americans insist on calling Vietnam a conflict because they got their asses handed to them by a massively inferior force.

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Who told you that ? Do you read comic books in your free time ? Lol

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No idea. I liked it alot

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False advertising.

~ I'm a 21st century man and I don't wanna be here.

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Cause it came out over a decade ago and people generally move on to talking about newer movies.

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