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cairistiona7

A good movie for a good Saturday...

Jan 26, 2020 08:45

We saw The Last Full Measure as planned (based on the real life story of airman/pararescuer William H. PitsenbargerFull disclosure: you all know Seb has become my favorite actor, but I honestly don't like a lot of his films and won't see a lot of them (like Viggo, my other fave, he has done a lot of drecky films just to keep working and keep his ( Read more... )

the last full measure

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mrowe January 26 2020, 15:10:22 UTC

Glad you liked it.

As there is no Dutch release listed on IMDB, I'll have to take other steps to see it. Should it come out in the cinema here, I'll still go see it then.

cairistiona7 January 27 2020, 14:01:29 UTC

I saw an article saying it did "respectably well" and crossed the million-dollar threshold for its opening weekend, so hopefully that means a wider release may happen? Especially if word of mouth helps it grown each weekend. I'll keep fingers crossed it comes to your theater. (Are you still on the all-the-movies subscription deal?)

mrowe January 27 2020, 14:15:12 UTC

I do hope it comes out here - but the lack of a release date on IMDB suggests not, and my cinema's search engine denies all knowledge of it. (I'm still on the all-the-movies dietdeal>

shirebound January 26 2020, 21:27:51 UTC

Moving and uplifting... my kind of movie. :)

cairistiona7 January 27 2020, 14:02:23 UTC

I do think you'll enjoy it. The battle scenes do get a bit intense but I didn't think horribly so? Just enough to show how awful it was.

imbecamiel January 26 2020, 22:42:53 UTC

Oooo, good to have such a positive review! I'm so glad it didn't disappoint. :D Sadly, it looks like it's not showing in our theater... Boooo. Which just goes to your point about the odd lack of marketing/release locations. If nothing else, with a cast like that, you would think they would be more tactical about getting it the viewing it deserves!

I'm gonna have to take a look at some of the theaters in the wider surrounding area to see if there are other options - and if not, at least keep an eye out for it to get here coming up. Definitely one I'll want to see at some point, that's for sure!

cairistiona7 January 27 2020, 14:03:43 UTC

I was soooo glad it was as good as I'd hoped... it's awful to look forward to something forever and then have it disappoint. Crossing all fingers that it comes to your area!

ysilme January 27 2020, 00:39:16 UTC

Thank you for the rec! I'll keep it in mind, although I'm usually not keen about war movies - but various ones I really enjoyed show that on occasion, I do. *g*
I hear you on favourite actos often playing films I don't like. I really love Marton Csokas, but most of the films with him I didn't exactly enjoy (although he was great in them), and some I don't dare to watch... XD

cairistiona7 January 27 2020, 14:10:05 UTC

I'm not usually into war movies either, but this was more of a "aftermath" movie than a war movie. There were far more scenes set in the present (or actually, in the year 2000, I think, when the Medal of Honor push was renewed and completed) than in the war itself. The flashbacks were to show Pitsenbarger's heroism and how it affected the survivors all the way to the present. So it's not a "follow the generals making military plans and then follow the soldiers who follow the plan and the plan blows up and they have to scramble" usual fare of war movie.

If I've learned anything from being a fan of Viggo Mortensen through the years, it's that you can still be a fan even if you don't see EVERY film (I've seen *nearly* every one of his and, honestly, there are a few that I would love to unsee :P).

layne67 February 6 2020, 07:10:54 UTC

Looking at the picture of William H. Pitsenbarger ( from your link ), it seems that Sebastian Stan is the right person to play him. Seb looks a lot like Mr Pitsenbarger!

cairistiona7 February 6 2020, 15:20:35 UTC

I initially had the same thought, but Seb plays the Pentagon official who fights to get Pitsenbarger his medal, which actually is the bigger role in the movie--the scenes with Pitsenbarger were mostly just snatches of the battleground and him doing his medic/soldier/heroic things. Pitsenbarger's elderly parents and the effect they had on Seb's character was actually the bigger storyline, not that it took anything away from their son's heroics. It was very much a "how does something that happened 30 years ago affect people in the present" sort of movie, and done very well.