A Good Movie

[ScopeScene]

Recent threads have covered war movies (domestic and foreign) and I'm sure "No Man's Land" was adressed, but I saw it for the first time last night. It takes place in Bosnia in the mid 1990s and features two injured enemy soldiers trapped in a trench together. It's a great watch -- ckeck it out.

[hood]

That's what I heard, so I watched it the other day. Other than the fact that it's interesting to see that no matter what happens, these people hate each with so much ferocity that they will crawl 10 miles just to stab their dead enemy one more time. Other than that, it's a horrible movie. Yes the actors and whatever is fine, but what they're talking about is horrible and there's literally zero comedy in it like some stupid reviewers had said there was. You come out of it feeling that it was all a waste. This is what happens when hatred and fueds are carried down for hundreds of years where the individuals involved don't even know who or what started it anymore.

[Trigger]

Kelly's Heroes was funny :D
So was Commando rofl

[Royal]

Yes the actors and whatever is fine, but what they're talking about is horrible and there's literally zero comedy in it like some stupid reviewers had said there was. You come out of it feeling that it was all a waste.

War is horrible and is often a waste (at least for the victims - of whatever type or ilk). Humour is a defence mechansism for those involved, yes it's sick, but it's the only way many get through it. So I've got to disagree with you Hood - sorry. There are many things wrong with it as a film, but the humour (if you call it that) is not one of them IMHO...

[Ichhabe]

Agree with Royal.
I found the movie funny in its sich, black humour.

And just to nitpick a little.... There are 3 men trapped down in that trench.
The last one is laying on a mine. A PROM-1, if I remember correctly. And I was pissed because that socalled mine-expert said that it could not be defuzed.... Bollocks. (yes, yes, it was only a film... I know that.)

[Nawlins]

I have to respectfully disagree with Hood as well. I saw the film several months back and it gave me something to think about for a long time.

While I noticed some mild comic relief to alleviate the tension of the story, I didn't think that comedy was even remotely important to it.

The points in the film where the men who were supposed to be enemies shared very human moments served to point out how senseless the conflict really was. It had something to say about that kind of fueding and conflict; that it is pointless, senseless and inhuman.

The part that struck me the most about the film and has stayed with me in the months since I've seen it is the end. There is no resolution. The film does not continue until he dies. At the end, he is still alive. His situation is desperate, certainly, but THERE IS STILL HOPE. That was what I took away from it. Conflict between human beings, over race, or religion, or money, or whatever, might be atrocious and senseless and awful, but there is always that bit of hope that something better might happen instead of it all going to hell.

Just one person's opinion.

That is all.

[Saranof]

I gonna have to see it, fresh wind in the war movies I suppose