Last Flag Flying - Official Movie Review
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- Last Flag Flying starring Steve Carell, Bryan Cranston, and Laurence Fishburne directed by Richard Linklater is reviewed by Alonso Duralde (TheWrap, Linoleum Knife) and Christy Lemire (www.ChristyLemire.com)
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In 2003, 30 years after they served together in the Vietnam War, former Navy Corps medic Richard "Doc" Shepherd (Steve Carell) re-unites with Former Marines Sal (Bryan Cranston) and Richard Mueller (Laurence Fishburne) on a different type of mission: to bury Doc's son, a young Marine killed in the Iraq War. Doc decides to forgo a burial at Arlington Cemetery and, with the help of his old buddies, takes the casket on a bittersweet trip up the East Coast to his home in suburban New Hampshire. Along the way, Doc, Sal and Mueller reminisce and come to terms with shared memories of the war that continues to shape their lives. Director Richard Linklater and author Darryl Ponicsan collaborated on the screenplay which follows the trio as they wrestle with the pangs of war both past and present.
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I loved the film. You guys didn't like it. No problem. But to stammer on for minutes on end about how you can't completely tell us why pretty much renders this review pointless.
Although not Linklater’s best I thought this film was incredible and perfectly encapsulated my conflicting feelings about war and service men/women. Steve Carrell’s devastatingly beautiful and honest performance here may be his best yet.
Marine buddies. Not Army buddies.
The scene where they go to talk to the mother of their fallen brother to tell her the truth about what happens, and then they can't go through with it .....I lost it...these critics suck, they probably like musicals
I, for one, hate musicals!!
May I ask, were you ever in the military?
I only ask cuz someone else, in another comment section of the official trailer, said that you'd have to have been in the military to understand this movie.
I haven't seen it, I also haven't been in the military but I highly doubt that's a true statement!
@@sweetmissypetuniawilson9206 you definitely understand it A LOT better if you served
Wait, neither of them seen The Last Detail? From now on you're critics in quotes
Randy Quaid should have stayed a drama actor. After seeing his performance in the last detail drama is definitely his forte.
How in the fuck have nether one of you not seen The Last Detail?
My thought exactly
Hal Ashby is one of America's most underrated filmmakers.
one of the 20 best movies of the 70's, if not 10
I was thinking the same thing. It is surprising that professional film critics would not have seen The Last Detail.
On a related note, I recall seeing the late Roger Ebert's review of Four Brothers. He pointed out that it was inspired by the John Wayne western The Sons of Katie Elder. He then remarked that he had never seen it. I had to pick my jaw up off the floor. That movie has been shown on TV a gazillion times. How is it possible that Ebert never saw it?
Yeah it's a bit surprising that Alonzo hasn't seen it at least. I know Ben has.
How can you be respected film critics and not have seen an art film like Last Detail?
I respect your opinion, but I think the rating is an injustice to the movie. It’s a very heart warming drama, well executed. Definitely worth a watch.
Fun Fact: Otis Young who played the other lead in "The Last Detail" became an actual preacher.
An unforgettable and heartfelt movie.
I thought it was great, there was so much humor and the drama gelled really well.
I'm sorry. I don't usually jump in when there is a chorus of disapproval, but I'm shocked. The Last Detail is a seminal film of The New Hollywood Wave, and also an incredibly influential road and buddy movie. Please watch this film both of you. You'll understand why we're so shocked that two critics, not in their twenties, haven't seen it.
I really enjoyed this movie as I do most Linklater movies. It takes a while before you notice anything great about it. The first act goes by without really making you think about or feel anything but it eventually gets going. The emotion builds gradually and at the very end it very knowingly gives you a sweet ending right after threatening to ruin you. Bryan Cranston is amazing to watch, the dialogue is poignant yet never seems staged or forced. these seem like real people and the movie is better off for it. they hint about a dark event that happened in Vietnam several times without really getting into it even when the movie decides to actually confront make the characters confront it directly. It feels a little unsatisfying but i suppose milking the melodrama and laying bare with exposition dumps (like many other writers and directors might choose to do) would be worse. They talk about government, service, war, authority, civic duty and stuff like that a bunch and it's definitely not really that edgy or revelatory as Alonso mentioned but I wouldn't call it safe either (these are Vietnam vets during the Iraq war we're talking about. not Gulf War vets in the Obama or Trump presidency. I think it makes a difference) and i think the greater overarching theme that they're getting at is truth and lies and how that duality interplays with right and wrong in ways we don't always expect it to. I recommend it even if you're not a Linklater completionist
STOP SHOWING THE TRAILER TWICE!
i wish they wouldn t show it at all.. and just talk about it :/
i don't mind like 30 seconds in the beginning
ripo Showing a trailer is fine, just not twice. I feel like most people who will watch/listen to the review probably have already seen the trailer a few times
i m not sure how the timeline thing at the bottom of the video works.. but if you can change the settings so we can see a screencap of the video, instead of just the time, then we knew where to go, if we don t wanna see the trailer.. i m kinda here for the discussion part of it :/
Soo, my takeaway from all these comments is that I should be watching The Last Detail...
LEAVE NEIL YOUNG ALONE!
The Neil Young song is the best part of the movie, HA!Cheers
It was OK. I felt VERY ripped off that there was not one Neil Young song. That was very disappointing. Good try but there is something that just doesn't quit work in this film. I LOVED Slacker, Dazed and Confused and A Scanner Darkly. This one is not nearly as strong as those films but a pretty good film all the same. Bryan Cranston is FANTASTIC in his role.
the something missing, solved it ETHAN HAWKE
Every movie could use Ethan Hawke
Where were you two in the ‘70’s
I was watching great films like the last detail
That's the thing, the 70's might seem a long time ago if you're a teenager or in your twenties but these two are older than that. The 70's was the GREATEST decade for movies no matter what genre you choose to talk about and for critics to not have watched an example of why that decade was so great is embarrassing.
Great Film. Loved every moment of it.
I honestly just thought that the movie focused too much on dialogue and conversation. It was literally like on conversation after another with out a lot happening or a lot of the conversation really adding to the story much. But I need to go watch the Last Detail.
“Not unlike Bad Moms Christmas.” I love Christy Lemire
Is it bad that I still see Bryan Cranston as the one and only Heisenberg?
no. his tv and movie success don't match at all. i am not entirely sure why this is.
The ads for this annoy me but it's Linklater so I might take a chance.
They're saying after seeing the movie what I was feeling after seeing the trailer the first time.
Got a sneak preview pass this week. Not terribly enthused about it though.
A good film which was surprisingly funny. Cranston is great in this role.
What isn't Cranston great in?!
☮️💜
Hey is it any good?! I love all three of these dudes
Haven’t seen the last detail? Seriously?
Y'all should have mentioned that the screenwriter who wrote The Last Detail also wrote Chinatown.
It was OK. I felt VERY ripped off that there was not one Neil Young song. That was very disappointing. Good try but there is something that just doesn't quit work in this film. I LOVED Slacker, Dazed and Confused and A Scanner Darkly. This one is not nearly as strong as those films but a pretty good film all the same. Bryan Cranston is FANTASTIC in his role.
Thanks for telling me absolutely nothing guys..great review..geez
The reviewer should see The Last Detail FIRST, before making references and comparisons to it. Does that make sense?
How can someone who is supposed to be a "Film Review Person" and who also looks like my grandfather.. Have not have seen "The Last Detail"...??? Why is he on the business side of anyone's camera?...
Richard Linklater?...... What happened?
Charming movie!!! I was very pleasantly surprised.
The deer hunter on wheels
Does the woman really drink a full jar of water?
How did this movie not work for people who are supposed to review movies? Weak minds afoot. This movie was fantastic
Yes it was and It’s touching on the current situation and wars happening ! We need peace !
I think the reason this film failed to click is that the three actors are just all too recognizable. This would probably be better if only one of them instead of all three is played by a box office friendly face.
How can you be a reviewer and you can't even get details as simple as they were Marines and a Navy corpsman, not Army buddies WTF?
If you’ve been touched by war this film will sneak up on you. Loved it.
WHERE'S MY THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING MISSOURI REVIEW
great movie 👍👍👍
The fact this review doesn't get it does not surprise me. In the military, all kinds of men are thrown together who may not have gotten close were it not for that they were in the same shitty place facing the same shit day after day. These three men came to love and trust each other because they had to. The all knew their lives were dependent on someone with whom they wouldn't have been friends...and they all defended each other in spite of their differences. Ask yourself, how many old friends who you haven't seen in years, maybe decades, could come to your door in pain, ask for help, and you would drop everything and go help them. That idea is overtly expressed in the Carrel and Cranston scene in the car when Carrell says he can't believe Cranston has just turned over the keys to the bar to a guy sleeping on the pool table. War binds people. It binds them in ways no other human act can.
They also clearly don't understand foxhole humor.
My wife and I thoroughly enjoyed this movie, having watched it last night. These 2 losers who make money by watching movies and critiquing them as if they know what they are talking about are almost nauseating. They obviously haven't spent a microsecond in uniform and known what it means to be in service with others and bond with them for a lifetime, if they're lucky enough to survive the experience. I agree totally with those commenting noting that these two should have seen The Last Detail if they're going to make comparative analyses like they are between the two movies. And lastly, he lost me at the starting gate with his description of the 3 characters as having all been Marines. 2 Marines and one Navy Corpsman, to be precise. Having been one of the latter at one time in my life I'm fairly cognizant of that not so subtle difference. If he did know that of which he so glibly speaks, he would know full well how sacred the bond is between US Marines and their Navy Corpsmen.
I loved the movie its about desolation and the aftermath of tragedy
If conscription was still a thing id be more on board with the military circlejerk that goes on in America today but it doesnt.
Was a good movie
It’s hard to take the review seriously when he gets something wrong in the first sentence lol attention to detail is not a strong suit apparently
4:35 Alonso on why we need jingoistic propaganda xD
kapa1611 he's full of shit. Why would we need that?
Don’t review movies if you haven’t seen The Last Detail. You’re amateurs with opinions.
Never seen The Last Detail? Go back to movie review school and retake the class.
That Poster is Horrible !
Sarah Smith Why? It's got three of the best actors working today aging yet still being front and center.
Other than the historical technical achievement, Boyhood felt flat too.
Go Dodgers!! Go Astros??
Alonso hates movies
Perhaps he should stick to reviewing comics! 🤭
Most people will find it hard to empathize with the characters, especially Sal and Muller. The reviewer used the word "superficial" to describe the film which exactly the attitude that Americans have towards their veterans. They will happily parrot the words "duty", "freedom" and "hero", but in their hearts and minds they really cannot related, and in many ways outright refuse to relate to these deeply troubled individuals. There was nothing wrong with the dialog or performance of the actors, so the lack of emotion is experienced by the film is very much to do with the viewer. The treatment of war veterans is a collective pain that has been repressed by American culture and this review a manifestation of that.
I hate to be grouped into a statement that involves everyone!
It's extremely ignorant to think we are all the same!
You don't even say, "most,"
it's, "that Americans."
For that you get 👎
SMH!
linklater, never been a fan, i think i'll watch the last detail
State the numbers upfront
the numbers are the least important part of it anyways.. its more about the discussion imo
kapa1611 Numbers are all I need....any number under 6...I skip the chit chat
they basically pull the numbers out of their backsides tho... they don t really mean anything xD
Why not refer to Rotten Tomatoes, or the several other sites that plaster the rating right at the get-go?
Is Steve Carell ACTUALLY a good actor of Oscar caliber? I've tried giving these Oscar bait movies of his a chance but his acting comes off as try hard for me.
Not sure if it's Oscar-caliber (whatever that means, I'm honestly not even sure anymore), but he's definitely proved he has a fair amount of range in acting ability (i.e. The Way Way Back, The Big Short)
I LOVED The Big Short and thought that most of the actors in that one performed really well.
Great movie. Now let's rwview the reviewers. Clueless boring stick to cartoon reviews.
Richard Linklater? Well, I just hope it didn't take 12 years to make.
LMAO savage.
I don't think it took 12 years to make but every single frame is so dense.
juan gomez good one, Jay
Richard Linklater sucks. He's too stilted and false to even deserve more astringent criticism than that. I don't even care if he gets better at what he does, he can just fade away into obscurity, and he will.
Linklater is my favorite director of all time, but even for me this film looks so dull.