Beanbioca As Good As It Gets

Anoushka Slater While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Edison Witt The first must-see film of the year.

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

non_sportcardandy That's the main point that stood out for me in this movie.Still a teenager the draft called me and some of my homies,some of them went to Nam.First and second hand I've known the vast majority of persons that went there went through changes.The brutality in this movie reflected some of the experiences I heard about.Many men don't recover from it,a lot are around us and are misunderstood.Some persons may have a different opinion about war after viewing this movie.That was the strong point for me about this movie.This review comes from a person that might of talked about World War II with their Uncle but his body was never sent back.

drewrhutchinson The first time I heard about this movie was when I was reading this in a magazine in spring of 1995 and I was 15 years old at that time, Which had a photo of actor Lawance with his face painted white w black lips which was the famous trade mark of this film. it was also used another movie called Half Baked. But I did barrow this movie from the local library 4 years later when it was on video. Dvds weren't popular yet until the next year. What can I say about this film. The cast was great, Same with the acting. But the violence in this film was intense. After you watch this movie for the first time, you can tell that this movie is not for everyone. Maybe for those who come from a tough nabor gang. Nc-17 was the original rating for this film. But I don't think that the violent, the langued and the drug used weren't closed enough for this film. But if you want to watch a better drama with a black cast in it. Do the right thing is the best one. Now the best and only thing about this film is the movie soundtrack. The soundtrack has the best 1970s Smooth soul hits from such great soul artist like Arthia Franklin, Curtis Mayfeld, Al Green, The O Jays, Issic Hays and Many more.

somehope ... that the Hughes Bros. apologized for this film because they thought they messed it or something. They didn't. The film shows a familiar trail: innocence of friendship before Vietnam, the war itself, and then the return home from war where you were once rewarded for killing and now you're trapped barely making ends meet with a family to support.Larenz Tate, whose character was full of hate in "Menance II Society", here shows how a good kid can turn into a bad man and shows me, which is very important, why he changed into a criminal. For me, O-Dogg was a modern day Clockwork Orange. That was fine for Menance because it was a shot of gangsta energy from debut directors. Anthony Curtis' story is more textured and proves Tate can tone down anger to show the humanity behind it.'No Viet Cong called me a n----r," M. Ali said. And here, in this film, I can see through the H. brothers' direction and Tate's acting, performance a strong argument againist why anyone, especially, the black man (and woman) got screwed over in Vietnam to support Ali's statement.I'm rambling, but see it for yourself as an edit changes Curtis from running home over fences to a solider running over the Vietnam jungle, and then later as a pimp, who has being doing Curtis' wife, pushes him down the stairs. In the 80's movies, Rambo was a hermit with a lot of anger. Curtis lived in a much more real world, and would have done what Curtis did.

tonymurphylee *** out of ****The directors of MENACE 2 SOCIETY teamed up again for this 1995 hit, DEAD PRESIDENTS. It is the story of a young man who gets involved in too many complicated things and it all goes way over his head. It is a brutal, effective, and very intense film that I can recommend if you think you can handle it.The story is basically this. During the 1960s a young adult named Anthony can't take anymore school, so he drops out and works petty crimes at the billiard hall with the owner who has no legs. When he finally gets tired of that lifestyle, he decides to enlist in the army. Since the Vietnam war going on, he goes in and becomes mentally unstable due to the atrocities. When he gets back home, his girlfriend has had his child and he tries to support her and his daughter. Unfortunately, the food place with the part time job that he had been contending to has gone bankrupt, leaving him with no job, no money, no food, and no choices. His desperate search descends into a downward spiral of war flashbacks and his overall loss on morality.This has been billed as an action movie for some odd reason. I mean, sure, there are action scenes in it, but not the kind that action movie fans would enjoy. The action scenes in this are quite realistic and unpleasant. The violence is pretty ugly. The scenes that take place between Anthony and his girlfriend, Juanita, are extremely creepy and quite believable. When he yells at her when she nags him, the viewer feels like they really hate each other.The most interesting aspect about this film is the character played by, believe it or not, Chris Tucker as the childhood friend whose life ends up being worse off then Anthony's. He becomes addicted to heroin, has flashbacks almost all the time, and is about ready to self destruct. Chris Tucker takes a surprisingly serious and very believable turn as this tortured character. It's quite neat to see a man who is known for normally being a funny and annoying actor take such an extreme role. He does a fine job.The film's war sequences are super gruesome, but it makes sense for them to be considering the main character and his dilemma. The violence he sees in the war is not at all what he is used to and the viewer feels this too. When it occurs, it is usually surprisingly realistic and over the top. Since it feels appropriate for the story, it's unlikely that the film would surprise you with such gritty realism outside of the war, but you'd be wrong. Somehow, the filmmakers are able to have the scenes that take place out of the war to be just as harrowing as the war scenes. I don't know how they did it.The underlying message of the film is that the Vietnam war veterans deserved way better than what they got when they returned home. The government did them no favors and granted them no opportunities. It's sad, especially since people like Anthony are poor and need government support to just be able to live. It doesn't matter if they dropped out of school or if they didn't join the army for the right reasons. They are still human beings, and no human being should live their lives regretting something they were involved in that left such a dark mark on the history of America.Rated R for strong graphic violence, language, a sex scene and some drug use.