RIP to a great actor. Man, some of the classics he was in. From Glory to Days of Thunder, The Natural to Open Range. I admit, his later westerns were his greater roles, Lonesome Dove one of his best. He was 95, and he lived it fully.
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“It’s been quite a party, ain’t it, Woodrow.”
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I may watch that series this week. Haven’t seen it in 20 years.
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That’s unfortunate. Dude was a stellar actor in every role he played in. His role in the movie “Colors” was just brilliant, bringing a sense of self reflection and understanding to an occupation that’s often stereotyped for brutality (police in urban environments during the crack wars). He was also fantastic in all the Westerns I ever saw him in. And who could ever forget his fantastic role in Apocalypse Now? “I love the smell of napalm in the morning.”
It’s also pretty cool, speaking of apocalypse now in particular, that he was the one guy on set who either wasn’t a raging drug addict/alcoholic (like Martin Sheen) or a total prima Donna who refused to learn their lines (like Marlon Brando). He was probably one of the only sane professionals who worked on that movie. Frankly it’s a miracle that movie even got made considering how fubar its production was and came out of it one of the best war movies ever made.
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He was a great actor, legendary tier. Known for a great number of movies, especially the Godfather, but I still loved him the best in apocalypse now.
You look at his filmography and you just see all the great movies he was in, with great roles in those movies.
Even some of the duds he was in, he still shined in his role. I’m thinking of A Night in Old Mexico for one.
He is right up there as one of the greatest American film actors of all time.
I was always a fan since The Godfather movies, but Robert Duvall stole my heart in the role of Augustus McCrae, “Gus” in the Lonesome Dove miniseries. RIP dear man. 
4 years in the Army will ruin every military movie you’ll ever see. 
I’ve got that listening to vets talk about it.
One guy (who was reviewing a war movie on his podcast and was an Afghanistan War vet) said that all war movies were inherently flawed because they cannot show you the mundane parts of the military experience. His example was that “no audience in their right mind would want to watch the guys do motor pool mondays, or deal with dysentery on a level that boggles the human mind, or how everything has to be censored because every port a potty is covered in penis pictures and every guy and girl in the platoon is fornicating in said port a potties.”
Reminds me of a comment I saw in a video game review. “Am I bad ass soldier, or am I in a daycare for adults?”
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The Outpost did a good job of showing a slight bit of the typical BS involved in deployments.
They always fail with the explosions and the ordnance. For example, grenades don’t explode in an upward column, and RPG’s don’t fly across the street like bottle rockets.
Guns don’t rack themselves every time you lift them either.
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Ummm…Boo Radley.
Great actor.
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Legend.
Full Metal Jacket.
Extremely slow, softcore representation of BCT.
Saluting (in the most flailing, non-military way possible) in the open field, in a combat zone. Officer throwing a salute at the same time as the enlisted as if they’re on a cheer squad.
Hip firing everywhere like a cheesy Ramboo flick. Complete disregard of command structure.
Ate-up from start to finish. Good for recruiting naive teens. Bad for teaching anything beyond abstract ideas.
That is for sure. They fire like they have 200 round magazines. And when their guys got hit I never saw them call for a corpsman.
But for the first hour I thought I was back at Parris Island. My beef was they only showed one maniac running around abusing recruits. We had four. It seemed like they were everywhere.
I did think Band of Brothers and The Pacific were terrific.
And they were all WAY more energetic than the movie, perfectly in sync too. R. Lee Ermey’s insults were Military gold though.
Yep. I thought saving Private Ryan was pretty good for combat depiction. But they jumped the shark when they had a Captain making the tactical decision to attack a machine gun bunker in a frontal assault in broad daylight. No chance. They would have done it under cover of darkness from a flank or rear. And no Captain on planet Earth is gonna send his medic in as part of the assault team.
It was a very Russian way to do things. Gotta get that “Hero of the Federation” medal I guess.
That whole movie is endlessly quotable.
“You don’t know very much do you? You better get your head and your ass wired together or I will take a giant ■■■■on you!”
“Your parents have any children that lived? I bet they regret that.”
“Texas sir!” “Holy dog ■■■■■Only steers and queers come from Texas private Cowboy and you don’t look like a steer to me so that kind of narrows it down.”
honestly if I had to choose my favorite movie of all time from just a film making and dialogue standpoint, FMJ is probably it. I adore that movie.
also has one of my favorite lines ever.
“I do not look down cascade of racial and ethnic slurs I can’t say on this site. Here you are all equally worthless!”
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