Fresh and Exciting

Excellent adaptation.

As Good As It Gets

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

This is how I love my protagonist. Badass, hardass, and above all, struggling. Throughout the film, our protagonist struggled- Against her own biology, against her social status and even against politics! The struggles, her outstanding evolution throughout the film, the support cast, it's all very well executed. Usually, female protagonist will always fall for a man throughout the movie and it will usually have a major part in the plot. Well not here! Her connection to her lover did not change almost anything (in regarding the general plot), which is great. No "lovey dovey mushy tushy" sh*t! It's all her. No "power of love", one of the worst tropes in movies.Still, it's not a 10/10 movie. Everything was intense, but at a certain point nothing is intense. It reached it's peak and stayed there- No cool down or another, higher peak. Cons: At a certain point it's not exciting as it first was. The finale wasn't that exciting either. Plot feels too simple at times.Pros: Great acting Best feminist propaganda I've seen in years Funny, wholesome and badass moments. many of them (and maybe too many)

"I am wrong." Henry said.Henry and Kristl were sitting in their garage turned Cinema. The garage was a workshop with large windows and three sliding doors that was part of a petrol station. Henry and Kristl could rent it for an agreeable price, because the ground was polluted by oil and other fluids associated with cars that had spilled for decades onto the floor and fouled the soil underneath."We could make it into a public restroom." Henry had said. "We were going to make it into a private cinema?" Kristl answered. "We could make some money on the side to cover our expenses." Henry said. "And who is going to clean this restroom?" Kristl's gaze made Henry think of a snake about to strike. "We could make it automatic, perhaps."Henry sweat-ed a bit and felt like he had just discovered he was walking in a minefield. "A Henry o'matic." Kristl said with a flat voice.. "Uhmm." "Just wrong. Plain wrong. " Henry continued, "That is why I never get any girl friends.""But I am your friend?" Kristl said. "Yes, but I don't mean a friend friend, but a girl friend friend." "Ah." "A man like me would do something like this." Henry produced out of nowhere a small white dish on which was placed a chocolate éclair with dark chocolate of such fine color that it made Kristl's mouth water. Next to it was a fine silver spoon, that shone green in the light of the exit sign. Kristl was staring transfixed at the chocolate éclair. "You see.. I would have the notion that you give this to someone you like and that she, the she being you in this case, would like me for it. Just to be nice." "Who do you want to have killed for that?" Kristl smiled. "I don't want anything for it, you just get it for free because you are my friend. Not a girl friend kinda friend, but a friend friend." "Gracias." Kristl took hold of the dish with a slightly trembling hand. "But I am silly really, because women want to be tough cookies that like to be trounced so you get respect from them and you get trounced by them so they respect you.. And then the greatest praise you can get from them is: 'suck my dick'" Kristl was eyeing her éclair in a way that clearly showed she had not yet made up her mind to swallow it whole or eat it in small bits. She decided on the latter. "I am overjoyed that US finest troops are in reality dumb gung ho halfwits that are trained to a sharp killer edge by humiliation and torture. Guess that makes a good soldier." "suck my dick?" Henry said, "What does that mean?" "Well, she wants to be man really, so that guy can suck hers or his. I am getting a bit confused." "I was a bit embarrassed when that one guy walks up to her and stammers 'yu are okaj' to her like he was lurch from the Addams Family. I thought well, Seals, aren't they the finest of our men? Somehow Lurch doesn't quite fit in with that picture." "It actually makes me happy. Would be scary to think they were serious experienced intelligent men with a professional attitude. They could be effective and deadly..brr. " Kristl said and continued, "I was a bit annoyed when it was suggested it was bad that she might be a lesbian. Oh my god she is a lesbian! We have to put up with blacks, women, gays and now with lesbian So what does that say: you can be a woman in the army but not when you are a lesbian?" "Imagine being a black lesbian" Henry laughed. "But how do you feel about the whole movie?" "I have to say it was an exceptionally run-of-the-mill movie. I didn't like any of the people in it. They were an amalgam of faces in dark surroundings. Then the movie used all the clichés. The politicians who can't be trusted and sell you out if it suits their fancy. The lone hero Jane who, having no experience whatsoever in politics, manipulates that woman, with decades of experience in politics. The cigar crunching commander with the I-don't-like-politics attitude. The drill sergeant who is tough on her but finally grudgingly starts to respect her. The boys who first look down on her and then become her buddies." "Yes, but I think that was all you could do with the story." Henry nodded."G. I. Jane has proved that us women can be beaten and humiliated as any other man in the army. And isn't this sad? How great is it that such fine intelligent people are wasting their lives on something so utterly needless as the act of waging war? There are people who can contribute something of value to the progress of humanity, but the only thing they learn is 'how to blow things up'. The movie is a hallmark of utter waste: now we women can be as useless as any men because we have equal access to all the branches of the army." "Hurrah for equality." Henry said."Any more of those éclairs?" Kristl smiled. "A whole box of them." Henry winked as he showed her the box, "Come and get them." After chasing Henry for five minutes He gave in and handed her the box. "All for equality." Henry said."Jummy." Said Kristl.

"G.I. Jane" is the story of Lieutenant Jordan O'Neill, a Naval Intelligence officer who gets chosen by a senator to be the test dummy for woman's acceptance into Military Combat. She gets put into training for the Navy SEALS, the most elite and toughest training. Now, O'Neill must prove she has what it takes to be among the best of the boys. Directed by Ridley Scott and co-written by the creator of the "Chronicles of Riddick" series, I wasn't sure what to expect. Ridley Scott is an amazing director but I didn't like "Pitch Black" that much, so I didn't know if I ended up liking this movie. But you know what? I highly enjoyed it.Demi Moore plays Lieutenant O'Neill, a tough, no-nonsense girl who just wants to get in on the action. Out of all the roles I've seen Demi Moore in, this is my favourite one yet. She's strong-willed, determined, and as the film goes on, she becomes a giant badass. If there was ever a woman's version of "The Expendables", Demi Moore would definitely be in it. She's a great character and you really want to see her succeed and kick all the guy's asses. She also gets into the best shape of her life. Even when she shaves her head, forms abs and gets totally ripped, she is still incredibly hot.Viggo Mortensen plays John, the Master Chief. No, not the one from Halo. The moment he steps on screen, you know this guy is hardcore. He's brutal, mean, and is really a dick towards O'Neill. Of course towards the end they become allies but the stuff he does to O'Neill is just terrible. You do not like this guy at all, but that just shows that Viggo Mortensen did a good job as Master Chief. Only way he could be any more badass is with an energy sword.The atmosphere in this movie is awesome. You're watching all these guys and O'Neill go through boot camp and you're just sitting there going "Yeah, I couldn't do that. That's just gross". Like there's one part where they have five minutes to eat dinner and do they get fresh food? No. They get the scraps from their lunch. So their eating like half eaten corn and weird goop that been sitting there for half a day. I have to be honest, I wouldn't survive 1 day at that place.The last 20 minutes are my least favourite part of the film. It's kind of like "Full Metal Jacket" in the way that once they leave bootcamp, the movie goes downhill. But unlike "Full Metal Jacket", the movie only goes downhill a bit. It was kind of just an excuse to make stuff blow up and have a gunfight but I'm not complaining. Got to say, Demi Moore grenading Iraqis and Aragorn sniping people is pretty cool.Overall, I highly enjoyed "G.I. Jane". I thought it was a great entertainment and Demi Moore was excellent. It's a badass military film that shows that girls really can kick ass, and I would watch this any day. Definitely a buy on Blu-Ray.

The first thing that I heard about this movie was that the US Navy was opposed to making it and was very resistant to allowing Scott to use any of their facilities. I don't know what happened in the end but they seemed to be using some pretty hi-tech weaponry. One just doesn't walk down to a corner store and buy an Apache, though I thought the Apache was being used very ineffectively in the situation. Basically the Navy Seals were being pursued by a Lybian border patrol and they were on foot, so the Apache was firing missiles. I would have used the chain gun because it is much more effective against infantry than missiles, missiles are for tanks and other vehicles.G.I. Jane is a protest movie and it is about women in the military in front line jobs. The Navy Seals are said to be the best of the front line troops and thus we focus on this. The movie is much more political and deals a lot with the political ramifications of what is going on. The biggest protest here is that nobody wants to bring women home in body bags. What the women say is that they can do anything that a man can do, so if a man can be a front line soldier, then a woman should be as well. Starship Troopers actually has women as front line soldiers. We see the main character wanting to be treated like all the other men, but at first she is given help because they feel that she needs it. What she doesn't want is to be treated any differently. The is opposition to what she is doing but it doesn't come out as strong as it did in the previews. In the previews we are led to believe that everywhere she goes she faces opposition, but this is not true. People do try to persuade her from doing it, but she is stubborn and continues.It is the political side of the movie that draws the criticism. The politicians say that they don't want women coming home in body bags. The whole idea is about change and people don't want to do it. Feminisim is a very strong force in today's society and now we are moving further into what originally were male only jobs. Today we see women weightlifters and labourers, but we still don't see women soldiers. In Australia we have women on the naval ships but not in infantry. Now, in this movie, we see the beginnings of a protest against this.The movie itself was a little confusing at times because the characters seem to mumble and it was hard to concentrate with Louisa and Melissa doing their usual girly things behind me, but that was not Ridley Scott's fault. His dark, wet style is very evident here, though it is quite different to Burton's style. Scott focuses more on this protest, and his darkness is much more realistic. Scott seems to keep the movie dark as a symbol of this world where women are not free to do what they like. Scott also seems to like rain because it is raining a lot in this movie. This seems to symbolise the struggle that the soldiers are going through in the training.The training is very hard, and Scott reminds us of this constantly. They eat from bins and go through training to handle torture and capture. They are beaten up, drowned, and pushed to the limit. They say that there is a 60% dropout rate, and most of them want Jane to do it, but she doesn't. She makes it through a large part of the course only to become a political embarrassment.