This is my rifle. There are many others like it, but this one is mine. My rifle is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. Without me, my rifle is useless. Without my rifle, I am useless. I must fire my rifle true. I must shoot straighter than my enemy, who is trying to kill me. I must shoot him before he shoots me. I will. Before God I swear this creed: my rifle and myself are defenders of my country, we are the masters of our enemy, we are the saviors of my life. So be it, until there is no enemy, but peace. Amen.

Last night I watched Stanley Kubrick's War classic Full Metal Jacket as part of Vietnam week. Seeing this movie for the first time. I liked this film because it shows you what life is like in the training camps. It was also a good anti war movie I liked when they sang the Micky Mouse theme. The music was also really good. Born on the forth of July is next.

With joyous memories, we leave the mystical city of Da Nang! What gay adventure lies ahead? Brother, this trip is gonna make LSD feel like aspirin!

As part of Vietnam week I watched the 1968 film The Green Berets starring John Wanye his son Patrick Wayne,Bruce Cabot,Jim Hutton and George Takei(Sulu). They are all on a mission in South Vietnam to  kidnap a North Vietnamese General and to build and control a camp that is trying to be taken by the VC.  One of the things that was good about this film was the great cast. The film also  is one of many to feature the Wanye/Cabot partnership. Those two are always good together.

The things that were bad about this film were the fact that they were having a fire while it was raining. Also the fake VC dummies looked really bad when they were hit by the napalm.  I am also getting sick of John Wanye's jokes,after awhile they become not funny. Another thing I did not like was that they killed off Sulu. It's not one of my favorite war films but it's  ok.

Next is Kubrick's Classic Full Metal Jacket.

I can't promise you that I will bring you all home alive. But this I swear, before you and before Almighty God, that when we go into battle, I will be the first to set foot on the field, and I will be the last to step off, and I will leave no one behind. Dead or alive, we will all come home together. So help me, God.

Last night I watched We Were Soldiers as part of Vietnam week. It stars Mel Gibson and Sam Elliott who go into battle fighting in the Battle of Ia Drang the first major fight by the United States and the VC. I thought this was a good war film because it shows what effect the war had on both the American and North Veitnam home front. I also like that it shows the battle from both the American and VC side. It was very good war film.
Join us next time as we watch John Wayne in The Green Berets.

That's all right. I did. Hey, come on now. If you kick out the gooks, the next thing, you have to kick out the chinks, the spicks, the spooks and kikes. All that's gonna be left in here are a couple of brain-dead rednecks, and what fun would that be?

As part of Vietnam movie week I started out by watching Good Morning Vietnam. It's a comedy about Robin Williams a radio host in Vietnam how has to entertain the troops. The film also stars Forest Whitaker and The Stanton Twins who are also in Gremlins 2 and Terminator 2. I have not seen many of Whitaker's movies, but I liked his performance in this film. I laughed very much during this film at some of the Wizard of Oz and Nixon jokes. I also liked most of the music played in the film such as In the Midnight Hour by Wilson Pickett,I Feel Good by James Brown and Baby, Please Don't Go by Them, I Get Around and two other Beach Boys songs and many other 60's classics. Great comedy. Williams is really good and funny as always.
 Next we will be watching We were Soldiers. 

Almira Gulch, just because you own half the county doesn't mean that you have the power to run the rest of us. For twenty-three years, I've been dying to tell you what I thought of you! And now... well, being a Christian woman, I can't say it!

A while back I watched the classic fantasy The Wizard of Oz which was made in 1939 and is 71 years old. The film stars Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale, a girl from Kansas who gets caught in a tornado on her Aunt's farm. You know the rest. Margret Hamilton plays The Wicked Witch of the West who is ranked number 4 on the American Film Institute's list of the 50 Best Movie Villains of All Time behind Vader.   I would agree with them. Over the Rainbow comes in at number one on AFI's 100 best songs and it is also the 3rd best musical and 6th best film in there list. Which I would also agree with. One of the cool things about the film is the switch from sepia tone on the farm to color in Oz. I also like the mattes in this film such as the Emerald City. Sadly mattes are no longer used in the film world. The Tin Man was originally played by Buddy Ebsen but during the  filming the aluminum powder makeup which he breathed in everyday had gotten to his lungs and he had to be hospitalized. He recovered but his part went to Jack Haley.   On top  is Ebsen as the Tin Man. After reading up on the film I learned that W.C. Fields was to play the wizard but he wanted too much money.  The part went to Frank Morgan. I don't think Fields would have been a good choice.

This is a classic film that will never grow old. Even after 71 years it is still watched by people all over the world.

You eat when we say you eat. You shit when we say you shit. You piss when we say you piss. You got that, you maggot dick motherfucker?

I watched  Shawshank Redemption in my film class which Andy Dufresne a banker played by Tim Robbins is convicted of killing his wife and wife's lover. While in jail he meets Red(Morgan Freeman) and they become good friends. Then he gets protection from the guards by doing their taxes. Then he gets involved in money laundering with the Warden played by Bob Gunton. I noticed many similarities to The Great Escape. First Freeman's character plays a man who is able to get things for inmates, Much like James Garner who in the film is The Scrounger. Another one is how Andy is put into the infirmary which is much like the cooler that Steve McQueen is put into all the time both of them being the main character's of the film. At the beginning of both films the prisoners are lined up in a row. In both movies Robbins and Donald Pleasence  forge fake papers for when they get out of prison. In several scenes Freeman is holding a baseball glove which also McQueen uses a lot. Then he hides the hole just like in The Great Escape. Then to get rid of the rock he empties it out of his pants just like The Great Escape.

I enjoyed this film very much and was sad to learn that it was robbed best picture by Forest Gump and that Freeman was robbed best actor by Tom Hanks.

If the United States falls under attack our job is to defend her in the past, present and future.

I thought that Back to the finial countdown was a good film. It stars Kirk Douglas and Martin Sheen who are traveling on an aircraft carrier when it hits a large Storm and is sent back to December 6, 1941. Soon  Japanese planes are spotted and they find out they have been sent back in time one day before the Attack on Pearl Harbor. They sent fighters out to attack but when they are close to attacking the planes but the storm reappears  and they are called back making it  to the 80's just in time. This was a very entertaining film.

If you could make God bleed, people would cease to believe in him, there will be blood in the water, the sharks will come. All I have to do is sit back and watch as the world consumes you.

Iron Man 2, the sequel to Iron Man which were both directed by Jon Favreau,star Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man where he has to battle a new enemy named Ivan Vanko(Mickey Rourke) a Russian who claims that Stark stole his father's ideas. So he goes off to battle Stark and get his revenge. Meanwhile back home, the government and military including a senator played by Garry Shandling and also Lt. Col. James 'Rhodey' Rhodes  played by Don Cheadle want Stark to share his power with the military. But Tony refuses.
The movie also stars  Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury and Scarlett Johansson, who must help Tony learn about his past. I like this movie first off, because of the wonderful soundtrack by AC/DC which features many of there classic songs such as Highway to Hell, Shoot to Thrill and If you want Blood. I also enjoyed the fight scenes. The robots are very cool as well.

 This is one my favorite films of 2010.