Post by jessebaker on Jul 13, 2009 23:17:54 GMT -8
TCM is set to air "Johnny Got His Gun" this Wednesday night at 10:00 PM.
The term "Nightmare Fuel" gets tossed around so often these day that the term has lost it's meaning in a way. But the film adaptation of Dalton Trumbo's novel "Johnny Got His Gun" is one of those films that puts the nightmare in nightmare fuel. Amputation/Disfigurement/Loss of Ability to Communicate. Serious shit that will make you have nightmares, wrapped up in a package involve war that will freak out even the most jaded of souls.
The film/book inspired the Metallica song "One", which remixed the movie footage into a "Mini-Movie" remix of the song that was given heavy airplay on MTV back in 1989. Even in it's 10 minute edit form, it retains all of the horror of the film version and then some as so far as trimming down the film so that it goes by at a faster pace.
I haven't seen the film in ages and won't be catching the tv airing of it; for me at least, it's just too brutal in a way to watch more than once. Hell, I can barely get through the remix video sometimes, since it's bleak as hell there too.
Since Kirk's been doing mini-reviews of films that have recently aired on TCM, I figure I'd give him a head's up on this film. Being an ex-military guy, I'm sure he can give a better synopsis/analysis of the film that doesn't involve dwelling on the overwhelming horror of the film as far as taking three different horrifying scenerios (losing limbs, losing one or more senses, and disfigurement) and combine them into the perfect storm of worse case scenerio of being horribly wounded goes.
The term "Nightmare Fuel" gets tossed around so often these day that the term has lost it's meaning in a way. But the film adaptation of Dalton Trumbo's novel "Johnny Got His Gun" is one of those films that puts the nightmare in nightmare fuel. Amputation/Disfigurement/Loss of Ability to Communicate. Serious shit that will make you have nightmares, wrapped up in a package involve war that will freak out even the most jaded of souls.
The film/book inspired the Metallica song "One", which remixed the movie footage into a "Mini-Movie" remix of the song that was given heavy airplay on MTV back in 1989. Even in it's 10 minute edit form, it retains all of the horror of the film version and then some as so far as trimming down the film so that it goes by at a faster pace.
I haven't seen the film in ages and won't be catching the tv airing of it; for me at least, it's just too brutal in a way to watch more than once. Hell, I can barely get through the remix video sometimes, since it's bleak as hell there too.
Since Kirk's been doing mini-reviews of films that have recently aired on TCM, I figure I'd give him a head's up on this film. Being an ex-military guy, I'm sure he can give a better synopsis/analysis of the film that doesn't involve dwelling on the overwhelming horror of the film as far as taking three different horrifying scenerios (losing limbs, losing one or more senses, and disfigurement) and combine them into the perfect storm of worse case scenerio of being horribly wounded goes.
