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Beanbioca As Good As It Gets

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

AaronCapenBanner Lee Marvin & Toshiro Mifune play a downed World War II pilot and a Navy Commander who are stranded on a Pacific island during the war. Both men of course distrust and hate each other, trying desperately to survive and thwart the enemy. As time passes, they find that, if they plan to survive, they will have to come to some sort of a truce. They both have times when they captured the other, but did not kill, which teaches them to begin to get along.Interesting, well acted and directed(John Boorman) film is highly allegorical, that is both men represent two superpowers who can either learn to get along, or kill each other. The ending will either come as a bitter irony, or a misstep, though I lean toward irony; either way, it is memorable.

Petri Pelkonen There is World War II going on out there.Two men find themselves shot down on a small uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean.Those men are enemies, the other is an American man while the other is Japanese.They are battling against each other.Then they realize they're in the same situation, and if they don't start working together they never get off that island.John Boorman is the director of Hell in the Pacific (1968).There are only two actors in this movie, but luckily those two are most fitting men.Lee Marvin plays the part of the American Pilot.Captain Tsuruhiko Kurodais played by Toshiro Mifune.Really great job from both of them.It's pretty great to watch the survival game of these two.Like when they build the raft and hit the ocean.I recommend this movie.

Le samourai Excellent film. Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune find themselves alone on a deserted Pacific island. The first represents USA & West, and the other Japan & Orient. First they are in conflict then they realize they must together find their way out of the island. To do so, they need to overcome cultural and language differences... There are some splendid and funny situations. Beautiful nature offered plenty of beautiful shots. Anyway, this story is about Pacific war, how it started, how it ended, what would happen after the war. But disturbing ending shows us eternal damnation of humankind.(you can find somewhere alternative ending but it is pretty the same).

secondtake Hell in the Pacific (1968)A great concept--two men are lost together on an island in the Pacific. The war is over, but prejudices remain, and one man is Japanese, one American. They don't share a language, so there is basically no dialog. There is only survival.How do you make a feature length movie about this without stretching the idea thin, without boring the viewer, without resorting to clichés of makeshift boats and coconut to eat? You don't. The movie is ambitious over very little, and if it seems impressive in some isolated, focused way, it is still a slow go.And you kind of know what the progression of events is going to be, as common human needs rise above nationalist myopia. What keeps it afloat at all is the odd combination of the quirky boorish stereotype American thug, Lee Marvin, who is not his best in this situation (but who has his own following--I like him in his crime films a lot) and the most famous Japanese actor of the period, the Kurosawa standard bearer Toshiro Mifune (who is an archetype of the vigorous, smart Japanese male).I have to admit I didn't really like the most recent parallel production, "Castaway," at least not the island parts (which everyone I know loved). In all these cases you depend on the acting, the actors themselves, to make it special. And for some that might be enough. It's a unique movie, for sure, a kind of old Hollywood hanger-on in the new Hollywood era. John Boorman had just finished the remarkable "Point Blank" with Marvin, and would soon work on "Deliverance," and all three have a masculine quality of rising about a hostile world and making it on your own terms.Finally, if you do get through it all, the last five minutes is important--clumsy and improbable and sensationalist after all that preceded, but important. It tries at last to talk about the difficulty of really understanding someone else, personally and culturally, and about the madness and indifference of war. It's 1968, after all.