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Comparing GODZILLA X KONG: THE NEW EMPIRE to GODZILLA MINUS ONE is like comparing an apple to an orange. The former is big dumb fun where the monsters kick butt, and the other is serious filmmaking...the entire Godzilla franchise in only two movies!
The Japanese are shown in the village attack doing things like running (probable if they were unarmed), trying to surrender, or sitting quietly waiting to be killed when mostly they'd either fight to the death or commit suicide. And that they don't gun down Pvt Witt on sight towards the end, instead of most of them wanting him to surrender wasn't exactly Japanese behavior towards Americans (or vice versa). Incidentally, by that point in the Guadalcanal campaign, the Japanese could barely feed themselves, let alone POWs they'd just torture for information and then kill anyway. There are mutilated American corpses shown fairly early on.
You Trumpanzees throw around "dictator" without understanding what one is. If Biden IS one, Trump would have been stood up against a wall and shot.
John Wayne was 52 in 1959...not exactly in his prime, but far from "old" and still a handsome man. And the Mexican guy, though comic relief, does briefly participate in the final gunfight.
Widmark didn't want to be in the movie and Wayne rubbed him the wrong way, end of story. The OP was joking.
BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, THE GODFATHER II, THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, and ALIENS would beg to differ. However, if anyone had to go and make a sequel to PSYCHO at all, it's the best anyone could have done.
I did, and thought it was the best possible sequel to the original PSYCHO if anyone had to go and make one at all.
Not while BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN exists...however, this IS a worthy sequel to PSYCHO, with Perkins as good or even better than in the original film.
GODZILLA VS KONG got there first. However, Tom Cruise made a genuinely good movie.
Grimes still flunks the basic test of manhood for the 19th century: He doesn't finish what he started when he leaves the cattle drive to try and play gunfighter...something he doesn't have the ability or willingness to kill to do successfully, which isn't a bad thing. Staying with the cattle drive would have been finishing what he started. He shows moral courage in making the homesteaders bury the dead gunfighters who died for them but he's ineffective as a gunfighter because he's just a scared kid playing around with something very deadly.
The final crawl states they were found weeks later. As for it's authenticity: It's most certainly poor history but very good storytelling on a low budget.
Well, Guadalcanal is depicted as practically Paradise until the horrors of war spoil the place...Americans and Japanese alike were poleaxed by tropical illnesses, with the Japanese getting the worst of it due to poor medical supplies and logistics. A Japanese patrol is practically begging Pvt. Witt to surrender towards the end of the movie...the Japanese were in retreat by that time and could hardly take care of themselves let alone prisoners (if they even wanted to bother taking any). The attack on the village is useful for showing that Americans could behave just as barbarously as the Japanese, but the Japanese extras mostly do stuff in that scene that their grandfathers were taught was disgraceful.
A good point...many of the major characters in KWAI don't survive the movie.
I doubt it...more is known about what the Chinese and North Koreans were really like in the era MASH was set in, as opposed to the series' original run.
I don't always care for Steiger...but he nailed it here. His Napoleon is a military and political giant who half realizes that he isn't what he once was, but still aims for greatness.
I think part of it is that audiences weren't ready for such a downbeat ending...one of the two most admirable characters in the film winds up framed as a terrorist and hanged because she wouldn't betray the Communist leader who had betrayed HER, her lover can't stand to be in Malaya anymore because he's haunted by his failure to save her, and the British High Commissioner who wants to end British rule as peacefully as possible has been dealt an awful setback.
Holden was fresh from a stint in rehab before doing this...by this time he had become an alcoholic.
Actually, the Malayan Insurgency was one of the most pointless wars ever fought...the British were leaving and the Communist insurgents delayed the withdrawal because they wanted to be the ones in charge and wanted to overthrow the British through revolution.
Karloff, because he had more range. But Price was capable of great things.
He only gets a pass because he's begun to realize exactly what he's been doing selling his skills as a geneticist to a$$holes. None of the five main heroes have the knowledge needed to stop Biosyn's locusts, and he's the only one who can stop what he's unleashed.