Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

Salubfoto It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

Curt Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

grantss Lt. Colonel "Bull" Meechum (played by Robert Duvall) is a Marine Corps fighter pilot, one of the best there is. He is also a family man, with a wife and four children. He runs his house like a military establishment, which works for him but is not necessarily ideal for the children, especially his eldest son.Good, but not great. Was set up to be a great human drama, but got sidetracked, and pulls its punches at the end. The sidetracking was due to trying to tackle one big issue too many (the issue being 1960s racism). The ending is emotional, but leaves a few things unresolved.Superb performance by Robert Duvall in the lead role. Good support from Blythe Danner and Michael O'Keefe.

buckr320002000 I think Ben & Toomer are still talking; Ben may have him to the hospital by the year 2020. The accents in every character are way off, I'm thinking Bob Duvall could've played Major Dad a bit better than Gerald McRaney. Lisa Jane Persky (Mary Anne) gives easily the best performance, albeit brief. If you are looking for the Great Santini, you won't find him. There's nothing really great or redeeming in this movie, just another misogynistic abusive racist asshole father without the ability to cope- terrorizing those who love him. The 1970/1980's propaganda machine ran a successful Bill W campaign, claiming all drinkers as alcoholics rather than focusing on building balanced coping mechanisms. They created treatment programs to force the opiate of the masses down the throat of every drinker. If you can't shame the person then guilt and if no guilt then accept, shun and label. Thus, the great Santini was born. Somehow Bull's drinking becomes a central issue where it wasn't needed, a few racist slurs later mixed into the Roy G Biv of abuse, you realize the salvation of the family only comes in his death. Somehow the best fighter pilot goes down for no reason and he's redeemed through death; the family is freed from the bondage of a Ignorant jar-head.I realize a lot of people love this movie but those are the same people who see genius in the movie Ordinary People. I know it won an Oscar, I'm still bored 35 years later. If the characters had any self awareness, they would've asked Major Dad one thing... When did your vanity surpass Unit, Corp, God, Country. Hope they got Kendrick because his southern accent was an abomination too.

correcamino If you are ever pining for a film that espouses wholesome family values but most of what you find is syrup-y, The Great Santini is the film for you.The theme of this movie is that love is a force of almost limitless, even frightening power, and life is all about the search for qualities to temper this force so that we can do it (love) with more ease, regularity and goodness. That we may get good at it, learn to live in it and speak it.The characters all have a lust for life, act unself-consciously and unapologetically. This is a portrait of a truly loving family.

Lee Eisenberg It's sad to think that people could actually be like this, but apparently there are such individuals. Lt. Col. Bull Meechum (Robert Duvall) is a military man without a war, so he uses all his energy to regiment his family. Immature and rather mean, Bull always gets his way...until they move to Beaufort, South Carolina. When Bull's son Ben (Michael O'Keefe) befriends African-American Toomer Smalls (Stan Shaw), it sets the stage for what's going to follow."The Great Santini" is very well done. Since this was written by Pat Conroy - who also wrote "The Prince of Tides" - we can easily conclude that he must have had an abusive father. Also starring Blythe Danner, David Keith, and Paul Gleason (whom you may recognize as Clarence Beaks from "Trading Places" and the principal from "The Breakfast Club").