tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7201660899514011402.post2085691191077328441..comments2024-03-28T10:44:41.756-05:00Comments on The War Movie Buff: CRACKER? Barry Lyndon (1975) War Movie Buffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05999735218343872013noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7201660899514011402.post-68134529380915384572024-01-27T14:09:14.968-06:002024-01-27T14:09:14.968-06:00There's probably several reasons why this film...There's probably several reasons why this film, while praised, is not much imitated, and you have identified some of them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7201660899514011402.post-71803070766629635932020-04-30T20:26:12.323-05:002020-04-30T20:26:12.323-05:00Good stuff. Thanks.Good stuff. Thanks.War Movie Buffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05999735218343872013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7201660899514011402.post-92112370455937875952020-04-24T12:26:46.352-05:002020-04-24T12:26:46.352-05:00Excellent review. I would say that this movie is b...Excellent review. I would say that this movie is better than most of its genre even without the impressive visuals but it is still not for me. <br /><br />I can't pretend it's a matter of high artistic sensibility on my part but rather my vulgar tastes. I would have enjoyed the film much more if there had been more positive interactions between the characters. The book has Lyndon himself as the unreliable narrator of the story; reading between the lines one can imagine that some of the characters, like his stepson Bullington, are reasonably decent people. There's probably no redeeming the main character but I would have added a measure of hope by surrounding him by people who act better than he does. In the movie, by contrast, Bullington seems as much of a jerk and a parasite as most of the main characters of the film.<br /><br />The only sense in which this movie is a war film is the way it shows how the war affected different locations. If you lived near the war it was a danger but if you lived far away from the front it seemed to have almost no impact. Although perhaps that is merely the consequence of following a very narcissistic main character.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com