A WWII combat veteran, Fuller was the master of
a certain kind of war film, exemplified by his 1951 Korean War titles The Steel Helmet and Fixed Bayonets and his memoir - like The Big Red One (80).
Not exact matches
«Without branding all generals and statesmen as murderers or thieves... a portrait
of war makers and state makers as coercive and self - seeking entrepreneurs bears a far greater resemblance to the facts than do its chief alternatives: the idea
of a social contract, the idea
of an open market... the idea
of a society whose shared norms and expectations call forth a
certain kind of government.»
Nevertheless, at least for the first hour or so, this
war film from Peter Berg (Battleship, Hancock) is gripping in its tension, with a
kind of harrowing set - up that rings
of a
certain authenticity that makes the peril the men face truly nightmarish.
After four days at Star
Wars Celebration, a
kind of semiannual gathering
of Jedi and Rebels and Empire and Ewoks thrown by Lucasfilm as a great wet smooch
of thanks to fans, you start to feel knee - deep in Sith,
certain you'll have a seizure if you hear...
More than a tale
of a son learning that his father was both a god and a murderer, God
of War indicts the soul - crushing effects
of a
certain kind of manhood.
Nevertheless Klam does drop clues, including this crisp sentence: «This place had been known at one time or another for whale hunting, Portuguese immigrants, sand dunes, herring shoals, shipwrecks off the point, but also for a
certain kind of seeker or desperate kook, Puritans, dropouts, communists, frazzled intellectuals, painters from New York, experimental - theater types, alcoholic fishermen, sailors stationed here between the
wars, stubborn or demented individuals...
If you want to teach history to people with a game than don't make up BS for political correctness by including all
kinds of races and genders as soilders who did not take part that way in the
war and by taking out
certain symbols.
You can't convince an entire country to go into an illegal
war in the Middle East without having previously convinced them
of a
certain kind of image
of a bad guy.»