56. "the more I think about it, the more terrible the bookends are" In response to In response to 0
I guess Spike just really needed to make his own Private Ryan, terrible bookends and all.
Remove that -- what? -- twenty minutes of the movie? and I think you have not just a good movie, but a great movie. Yeah, the old soldier talking back to John Wayne is a pretty important scene, but even WITHOUT that, I think the stuff Spike puts in the middle does a good job of bringing up all the requisite issues. He could have found a different time to talk back to the movie industry, or a different way to do it, because in the end the bookends just over-convoluted the story and really, really didn't fit the feel of the rest of it.