WTF is up with all the crazy ass 'staches in this flick? It's as if they kept getting progressively bigger and bushier. I'm old enough to remember the style, but it was to the point of being silly in this movie.
Also, there's a sequel to Platoon's Elias-Barnes fight. I was seriously hoping Dafoe would scream "Barnes!!!" before they fought.
I got a kick out of the Dillon=Dafoe horseshoe battle, both almost identical. This was supposed to be going down in the 80's, I thought the handlebar was more of a 70's thing though I was too young to remember it first hand back then.
shareBerenger also had the same type of knife that he had in Platoon. The one he shanked up Matt Dillon with was the same type that he sliced Charlie Sheen's face with.
shareI think the mustaches were supposed to give it more credence as a movie set in the bayou. Im not sure if its really like that there because I have not spent much time in the the area. Though I do know that northern Mexico is all about the 'stache and more than half the male adult population has big bushy ones.
But beyond that the film was silly. I like gritty crime dramas and William Defoe, but this movie failed on so many levels. The villain was not at all intimidating, and the final knife fight was laughable. The characters actions seemed illogical as well. I had the feeling that this movie was scripted in the 80s but never got made until now. It's all been tried and done before and there was no reason why they should have bothered to produce and film it.
Those fu-man-chu moustaches were just plain manly...
shareSee? I thought so too. Dunno what everyone's problem is.
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It's not like every single male over the age of 30 down here in Baton Rouge has one but it's giving the more gritty impression of the "manly men" persona. Look at the different characters in these types of movies from both Daniel Day Lewis' characters from Gangs of New York and There Will Be Blood. Not that this movie is anywhere on the same level as those movies but there are countless other examples. I will say that the types of people that the actors are playing would probably have those types of facial hair. It is weirdly a kind of respectful look. Many of our police officers sport the moustache a la Super Troopers. Just my two sense. But it is actually kind of factual in that sense.
shareThey were horseshoe moustaches...
sharedafoe does look better with that mustache.
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