![]() ![]() The movie opens with John Winger, played by Bill Murray, who is a bad cab driver with no real direction in his life. ![]() Let’s just look at a few elements of the movie and see if you agree and can relate to the underlying truths. Good comedy is always founded on truth and tons of vets love the movie because so much of it really rings true. Look at the spirit and not the letter.įirstly, let’s look at the popularity of the movie amongst vets. You might consider watching the movie before continuing, and please keep in mind that I’m working from memory so some details might be off a bit. Let’s just analyze a few things about the movie that it got right about military life. Now please let me make my case before you go off the deep end and call me your favorite epithet. (Imagine Final Jeopardy music playing while you make your decision and the smell of burning rubber emanates from your ears.)Īnd BTW – Private Benjamin with Goldie Hawn gets an honorable mention. I will leave it to you to peruse for a moment which movie most accurately portrays military life for you. I’m sure our readers have their favorites, many of which are dependent on the era during which they served. Only the 5.We quite often see blogs and articles discussing the best and most accurate movies regarding war or military life.The "Theatrical" version also executes the branching very poorly, with a noticeable pause for each of the six major deleted scenes and occasional brief hiccup in content at those points (including about 2 seconds at the end of the training montage).The "Theatrical" version retains the trash can segment (about 12 seconds) and skips past the Germany vacation romp about 10 seconds too soon, cutting after "special exercises" and leaving out the mention of the suitcase John's brought.However, the DVD suffers from several flaws: A longer discussion between John and Russell before Russell agrees to save the men in Czechoslovakia.Love scenes between the two couples during their Germany vacation in which the women are nude.An extra minute in the EM-50 introduction scene where John and Russell are "volunteered" to watch it for the weekend (instead of just suddenly on guard for no reason).After Hulka's injury, a false account by Stillman of how it happened (though John knows that Stillman was at fault).The rebels want to kill them but they escape by leading the rebels in a rendition of "Quando, Quando, Quando" They meet with rebels whom they smoke marijuana and take more LSD with. A nine-minute scene in which John and Russell take LSD and accidentally end up on a mission in the Colombian jungle.A short addition to the training montage where Russell and Ox deal with a heavy trash can (not available separately, see below).A longer discussion between John and Russell before they drive to the recruiting office.The "Extended Cut" DVD includes 18 minutes' worth of deleted scenes re-edited back into the film (and most available separately in the menu): All we have to do is to be the great American fighting soldier that is inside each one of us. We don't have to worry about whether Captain Stillman wants to have us hung. But we're American soldiers! We've been kicking ass for 200 years! We're ten and one! Now we don't have to worry about whether or not we practiced. Something seriously wrong with us - we're soldiers. There's something wrong with us, something very, very wrong with us. So we're all dogfaces, we're all very, very different, but there is one thing that we all have in common: we were all stupid enough to enlist in the Army. John Winger: Nobody cried when Old Yeller got shot? I'm sure. ![]() Who saw "Old Yeller?" Who cried when Old Yeller got shot at the end? We're mutts! Here's proof: his nose is cold! But there's no animal that's more faithful, that's more loyal, more loveable than the mutt. We're Americans, with a capital 'A', huh? You know what that means? Do ya? That means that our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world. John Winger: Cut it out! Cut it out! Cut it out! The hell's the matter with you? Stupid! We're all very different people. ![]()
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