The Movie: The Big Red One (1980)
What Is It?: Sam
Fuller poured his WWII experiences into a book that became a movie that became
a shard of what he intended it to be when UA started meddling. That
under-two-hours theatrical release is not your assignment today. I hope you
cleared three hours in your schedule, because this motherfucker is looooong.
But it is funny and rewarding and insane and completely uncompromising in its
depiction of the camaraderie and luck that gets one through the horrors of
combat.
Why Today?: Today
is VE Day.
