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I also had a hard time following the movie. I agree with Kellye that it seemed to jump around a lot. I also found it hard to believe Tom Cruise as the main character. - Christine W. | I also had a hard time following the movie. I agree with Kellye that it seemed to jump around a lot. I also found it hard to believe Tom Cruise as the main character. - Christine W. | ||
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| + | I have to disagree with both of you, I thought Cruise was fantastic. His performance captured the essence of Vietnam Vet struggling to find closure in a world of chaos and alienation. I was very impressed - see he can be more than just Top Gun. And if we are going to analyze movies fairly as historians, we should not let our personal opinions of the actors' personal lives so greatly affect our analysis of the film.~Juliann Boyles | ||
I don't really care for this. It wasn't very entertaining for me and it's not something I would ever watch again. I didn't have any problems with the film jumping around, but I kept trying to figure out when he'd actually gone away, and therefore how old he was and how long he'd been gone. We see kid Ron watching JFK's speech in 1961, then Ron is a senior in high school, then we are in Vietnam in October 1967. Only after a parade when a speaker says Ron was born in '46 do things come together. I was preoccupied with this on multiple occasions. -Whitney Holcomb | I don't really care for this. It wasn't very entertaining for me and it's not something I would ever watch again. I didn't have any problems with the film jumping around, but I kept trying to figure out when he'd actually gone away, and therefore how old he was and how long he'd been gone. We see kid Ron watching JFK's speech in 1961, then Ron is a senior in high school, then we are in Vietnam in October 1967. Only after a parade when a speaker says Ron was born in '46 do things come together. I was preoccupied with this on multiple occasions. -Whitney Holcomb | ||
