On the podcast this time, Steven and Sean are desperately trying to just make it through the damn night and get back home to our families. We’re talking about the Randall Wallace film from 2002, We Were Soldiers.
What a mess of a confrontation. I think it’s safe to say that no one really came out ahead in the Vietnam War. I also think it’s probably safe to say that no one’s coming out ahead in any war.
Call me a romantic idealist, I don’t care. War sucks and I’d prefer it if there was never another one ever again. The grotesque loss of life isn’t worth it.
Need some evidence to back up my point? Give this movie a watch. Make it through to the end. Watch people get torn apart by bullets and melted by napalm. Watch all of that terrible shit. No thank you.
I’ll call this film effective, at the very least. I don’t think anyone’s going to walk away from it thinking, Yeah, we should definitely have more of those. Ugh. Excuse me, I’m going to go watch some ‘90s cartoons now. Those are much nicer.
(Recorded on October 14, 2022)
Links to Stuff We Mentioned
We Were Soldiers - The Movie Database (TMDB)
Independence Day (1996) — The Movie Database (TMDB)
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) — The Movie Database (TMDB)
Greg Kinnear — The Movie Database (TMDB)
Clark Gregg — The Movie Database (TMDB)
Sean Bean — The Movie Database (TMDB)
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006) — The Movie Database (TMDB)
Hotel Rwanda (2004) — The Movie Database (TMDB)
George Armstrong Custer - Wikipedia
Sam Elliott — The Movie Database (TMDB)
Kathy Bates — The Movie Database (TMDB)
Man of Steel (2013) — The Movie Database (TMDB)
Barry Pepper — The Movie Database (TMDB)
25th Hour | More Movies Please! - Buzzsprout
Schindler’s List (1993) — The Movie Database (TMDB)
Vietnam Veterans Memorial - Wikipedia
Jon Hamm — The Movie Database (TMDB)
Joseph L. Galloway - Wikipedia
John Krasinski — The Movie Database (TMDB)