http://www.titsandgore.com/2008/03/10/mike-reviews-the-deer-hunter-1978/ Tue, 15 Feb 2011 20:04:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.titsandgore.com/2008/03/10/mike-reviews-the-deer-hunter-1978/comment-page-1/#comment-1270 Mackey Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:05:50 +0000 http://www.titsandgore.com/2008/03/10/mike-reviews-the-deer-hunter-1978/#comment-1270 How quickly we forget Shooter. Good point about apathy, though. In part questioning patriotism is now so inbuilt into the Hollywood system that the questioning is empty. It's a posture meted out by war films (or maybe more appropriately skirmish films) that straddle the action genre or spy genres and so become reduced in continual hyperbole. I think the skirmish film in particular probably skews more people's perceptions of what the CIA is and what it does than the actual CIA does. It's fertile fiction since ostensible no one knows about the superhuman acts of the secret police. The only solid post Vietnam era war fiction film I can think of is Three Kings (can't really count The Big Lebowski, even though the aggression will not stand, man)-- Welcome to Sarajevo wasn't bad. Part of the problem might just be locating the war- war seems to have skipped its original borders. Maybe if we include the war on drugs or the inner city gang wars we might get a few more films in there (Boys n the Hood, Menace II Society, Dark Blue- that list can go on forever). How quickly we forget Shooter. Good point about apathy, though.
In part questioning patriotism is now so inbuilt into the Hollywood system that the questioning is empty. It’s a posture meted out by war films (or maybe more appropriately skirmish films) that straddle the action genre or spy genres and so become reduced in continual hyperbole. I think the skirmish film in particular probably skews more people’s perceptions of what the CIA is and what it does than the actual CIA does. It’s fertile fiction since ostensible no one knows about the superhuman acts of the secret police. The only solid post Vietnam era war fiction film I can think of is Three Kings (can’t really count The Big Lebowski, even though the aggression will not stand, man)– Welcome to Sarajevo wasn’t bad. Part of the problem might just be locating the war- war seems to have skipped its original borders. Maybe if we include the war on drugs or the inner city gang wars we might get a few more films in there (Boys n the Hood, Menace II Society, Dark Blue- that list can go on forever).

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