upmysleeves [she/her, any]

who cares

I can hear the cadence of that line in my head lol

TRANS MIDWEST

the lead threw up in his mouth a little bit while singing this at the show I went to, not sure if it was a bit or not but it was funny

they aren’t sludge they are experimental rock

I think your read on it was right…which is part of why the movie makes me so mad. It does put a lot of effort to depict how fighting in Vietnam destroyed these men, but it also validates the supposed reasons americans were there in the first place by depicting the viet cong as murdering civilians for actually no reason at all. The obsession with death instilled in these men throughout the movie are shown to originate from the vietnamese(seen through the famous russian roulette scenes)…not the American military

The singing scene has a quality of dissent after everything that came before it imo

yes!!! it’s real atrocity propaganda bullshit

I honestly think the godfather movies are just so incredibly influential that it’s very hard to appreciate them for their own merits if you’re under the age of 40. The Exorcist is like this too- I like that movie but so much of it has been baked into the culture more broadly that it’s hard to grasp what made it compelling originally.

edit: not to say I’d defend the godfather from this though. I’m not crazy about it either, but that’s my perspective on the movie

the deer hunter. ultimate lib movie about how we waged the vietnam war but we feel bad about it and didn’t they deserve it just a little bit? really gross.

I like young christopher walken’s performance quite a bit but it also ends on a scene where all the characters gather round a table and sing ‘god bless america’

yuck