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Why did it bomb, /tv/?
They made the mistake of having the opening ceremony in Vietnam. It was funny seeing those gooks leave in droves at the child rape scene, but it just gave this film bad reputation from the start.
I mean, just look at the DVD packaging. It was such an odd choice to market this as a children's film.
>>69059854
>Why did it bomb
It was a metaphor for Operation Rolling Thunder
All part of the visionary director's postmodern plan
>>69059959
I see what you mean.
The rape scene wasn't really necessary, why would any sane director include this into a film?
>"I may be an old War Dog, but I like my meat well roasted."
What did it mean?
>>69059854
I don't think America audiences could stand seeing all of those gooks get mutilated
>>69060289
The director is a sick fuck. The source material never had such a thing, but I guess he wanted to go for shock value to get this movie more attention than it deserves.
>>69060789
poetic licence. i bet you're the kind of person who complains about deer hunter because there wasn't rampant russian roulette irl
Most cinemas refused to show it and pretty much every major store & VOD service refused to carry it. I'm amazed that they managed to secure such a big budget for this film, considering how depraved and commercially un-viable it is, props to them for managing to get something like this made in this day & age though, fucking hell.
To stop the spread of communism.
>Cops didn't show, but maybe they should have: Army Dog sickens
>The Melbourne Underground Film Festival staged an illegal screening of Ezra Kemp's banned war flick Army Dog. A victory for free speech, perhaps, but it's hard to emerge from it feeling like anything other than a loser.
>It attracted notoriety last month in Australia when the censors demanded its removal from the schedule of this year’s Melbourne International Film Festival. The Office of Film and Literature Classification slapped Army Dog with a Refused Classification (RC) rating, effectively banning it from Australian screens.
>It is the first feature to receive such a classification since director Larry Clark’s confronting suburban drama Ken Park in 2003. Back then film critic Margaret Pomeranz defied the “stupid” censorship laws and attempted to host a screening of the film at a Sydney town hall, which was raided by police and stopped seconds after she hit the play button.
>The crowd gathered last night at Melbourne indie bar 1000 Pound Bend learnt the location of the screening through announcements made on Facebook in the 24 hours leading up to it. We were instructed to keep mum and were warned that, should the police arrive and crash the party, our money would not be refunded.
>A diverse audience were there to flick The Man the proverbial middle finger — I spotted hipsters, middle-aged men wearing straight-laced button up shirts, neck tattoos, a lonely mullet and some journalists from The Age mulling around outside.
>But despite the screening being advertised in The Age (sans location) the fuzz were nowhere to be seen. Freedom of speech, it seems, scored a victory last night. The price? Tolerating the most putrid, repugnant and pointlessly gratuitous ‘film’ I’ve ever seen.
>An hour before the screening, a young bohemian woman serving drinks at the bar downstairs said the film would go ahead “as long as the cops don’t show up”.
>Despite my liberal-minded inclinations, when I mentally rewind last night’s screening I realise in hindsight that I’d be quite happy to see the boys and gals in blue lunging towards the DVD player to prevent the public from viewing the repugnant hour and a bit of filth that greeted our stunned eyes. Sure, we were warned not to bite the forbidden fruit. But the sheer grotesquery of a film like Army Dog inevitably knocks you for six.
>The concepts of “story” or “characters” are well out of the film’s reach. Viewers follow an Army Dog with husk-like teeth and blood stained lips as he staggers across Vietnam, raping women who are either dead or close to dying. Kemp's cameras do not shy away from graphic depictions either.
“So that’s where the term dick head comes from,” Peter Krausz, Chair of the Australian Film Critics Association whispered in my ear during a scene in which, well, I’m not sure you want to know…
>Humour, closed eyes and return trips to the bar were the only ways to deal with an experience like this. If Army Dog is to be considered art, so too is a greatest hits collection of clips from youporn.com, though the latter would be far more acceptable to the standards of public decency.
>Yes, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel was horrifying in its own way, but Army Dog goes way beyond the pale, to a place where flaky wannabe artists get their sick thrills by conjuring images designed purely for shock and gratuity.
>The OFLC was right to ban the film from screening in general cinemas. It’s a porno of the rankest and smuttiest variety, a rare cinematic experience in which audiences cheer, squeal, hoot, boo, cover their eyes and generally struggle to find suitable reactions to watching a pastiche of horrific ‘there is no god’ sequences.
>Melbourne Underground Film Festival director Richard Wolstencroft, who introduced the film with the curt words “fuck the censors” will invariably argue that freedom of speech scored a victory last night. Maybe it did. But it’s hard to emerge from a film like Army Dog feeling like anything other than a loser.
Should he have been forgiven? Was he really a good dog after all?
>>69061490
Good dog turned mad by the horrors of war.
>>69061490
He was never going to forgive himself, which I felt was the point of that scene.
>>69061982
But he still sought the forgiveness of the kid's family in the end.
>>69061490
It depends, was he really just following orders?
plebs don't "get" vietkino
>>69059854
I cried.
>that moment when the vietcong sniper's son comes to his doorstep years later and holds a gun to his head
>that beautiful acting when Dog recognizes him when he was a baby
>those feels when they both share the same thousand yard stare in total silence while Army Dog's puppies are playing in the garden
>tfw the gook doesn't shoot, drops the gun and walks away
>"who was that, Pops?"
>"Woof! I don't know, son. Must..... just have been lost."
BUT HOLY SHIT that earlier moment when Army Dog raises his paw and it looks like he's saluting how did they do that shit was adorable classic comedy
>>69062832
I know mate.
Despite the graphic depictions this film had plenty of, some scenes contained real beauty.
reddit, pls leave
>>69059854
The fact that all the deaths were real probably didn't help.
So the dog is a metaphor for god, right?
That's what I got
