I too remember watching this movie.... wow... when the twist dropped.... you heard the gasps, and people calling out.... many were crying.... Still one of the best movies I've ever seen...
What I like about this movie is that people think it’s sad ending but it’s really a happy ending. It would be a sad ending if he had to keep living without his family. This way he saves. Rome, avenges so many deaths, including the death of his family, and he gets to die and be with his family in the afterlife.
I am stunned how so many people don't know it's true. Those brave men that went in the water deserve at the very least, to be remembered by the future generations they defended.
... I just came to a chilling realization. Since the Iron Giant survived taking one of these at point-blank range- TO THE FACE!!! that implies that if a regiment of Iron Giant robots was sent to Earth as an invasion force, then not a single force on the planet could stop them.
Fun fact: the helicopter pilot is none other than Kevin Peter Hall, the suit actor who played the Predator. John McTiernan said, "Because he suffered for so long in the damn suit, I had to make sure he got his face on-screen."
Losing to "Shakespeare in Love" was a joke of a decision that forever tarnished the worth of the title "Best Picture." Predictable Hollywood anti-patriotism/anti-war bias. Should not have even been close.
The thing is, you can't hate Calvin Candy. He's a product of his time. But Stephen is just pure evil ! Props to Samuel L. Jackson for playing such a detestable character.
I feel blessed growing up with these movies when they were fresh. It was cinematic heyday. Describing the degradation of cinema over the last few decade is beyond me. I’ll leave that to those with the gift of language. I’m sick and tired of hearing kids in their teens and 20’s arguing that recent cinema is the best.
Sorry, so it was not only the white folks who were arseholes. Slavery, as evil as it was and is, takes collaborators. Unpopular fact, not opinion, nut true.
I hope to one day see a war movie that sticks to the realities of battlefield.. like we see recently with movies trying to be as tactically accutate as possible on gun fight scenes. What ruined this fight sequence for me was when the broke formation. Like that's never going to happen on the battlefield. No one, not even a king would leave the safety of his rank to go solo. Plus historically even if Leonidas broke off he would immediately have two to twenty men fighting along side him
