Last Flag Flying
The publicists for Amazon Studios and Lionsgate want me to tell you about their film “Last Flag Flying” which will be released nationwide on November 17th;
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.
Category: Who knows
This is a loose remake of the classic “The Last Detail” with Jack Nicholson. The author Darryl Ponicsan is the same writer as “The Last Detail”. I actually work with his nephew and he told me about it…
I was about to say that it sounds a lot like The Last Detail, one of my favorites.
One of the great scenes in film is in The Last Detail when a crazed Jack Nicholson is lecturing Randy Quaid on Quaid’s passivity. It went something like this:
Nicholson: Didn’t you ever want to just punch somebody’s face? Didn’t you ever want to bite their ear off?
(Quaid thinks about it)
Quaid: Well, no.
Wiki says it’s a sequel, not a remake.
Sequel
Main article: Last Flag Flying
In 2006, filmmaker Richard Linklater expressed an interest in adapting Last Flag Flying, a sequel to The Last Detail, into a film.[37] In the novel, Buddusky runs a bar and is reunited with Larry Meadows after his son is killed in the Iraq War. Linklater’s adaptation is set for a 2017 release and will star Bryan Cranston and Steve Carell.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Detail
Apparently a lot changed between 2006 and 2017, since Badass and Mule were also sailors, not Marines, in The Last Detail.
“Navy Corps medic”???
What the fucking what?
I don’t expect Obama to get it right, but the movie publicist has an obligation to get it right.
‘Corpse-man’
Yeah, that was yet another bright, shining, proud, memorable moment.
“Navy Corps medic”
Bwahahahahhahahahahahaaaaaa!
We are proved correct again. People just can’t wrap their heads around the concept.
‘Navy Corps medic up!’
Said no Marine ever.
And if they can’t get the nomenclature right for the lead character, how much accuracy and authenticity can you expect from the rest of the film?
I’ll pass…
Just look at the photo up top. Every Marine knows if you wear our uniform you look right. No shaggy beards, no shitty haircuts, period. If you wear the full uniform, you are to be within the grooming standards, period.
^^^Yep to all of that^^^
We have retirees at our USMC Ball and if in Uniform, they conform. If fat and bearded, they’re in a Tux.
They were afraid to say Corpsman as it may offend the four or so other genders.
If you want to see a good movie about bringing a deceased, young Marine home from war, see “Taking Chance”.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1019454/
Based on a true event and no shaggy uniforms, haircuts or beards. It was nice to see a movie produced that went out of the way to portray this correctly. His folks attended 3/11’s MC Ball that year we returned and one of the chow halls at 29 Palms was named in his honor.
Kevin Bacon said it changed everything he thought about everything after he acted in that movie.
The movie was about respect, that’s all.
And it was spot on.
I simply can’t watch it, and I own it, without someone dumping a bunch of sand in my eyes…
By the way, nice sideburns LtCol….
If it lives up to the trailer, it could be very good. But Hollywood does have a tendency to screw this kind of thing up. I usually enjoy the actors in it and I think I’d be willing to give it a chance. What’s the worst that could happen? I’ve already seen Hurt Locker.
About 95+ percent of military movies are steaming piles of celluloid.
Doesn’t stop them from churning it out.
That picture up at the top just pisses me off.
So assuming one doesn’t normally get their 20 year old uniforms fitted regularly, that would mean that Laurence Fishburne’s uniform is the way he left when he got out in his youth.
Must have been a really fat Marine.
“Navy Corps medic”
So…..the Navy and the Army finally got around to that joint combat medicine program, huh?
JSOMTC(A) Baybee!
LOL….shoulda seen that coming.
*sigh*…gone are the days of the 300 Fox short course.