[Mishmash] A Few Good Men

[GALEHALLOCK at aol.com]

_fatkinson at mishmash.com_ (mailto:fatkinson at mishmash.com)   writes:
 I just got through watching 'A Few Good  Men' again a few minutes ago.
That movie never fails to amaze me, make the cogs  in my analytical mind 
turn, and make Tom Cruise (who's religious practices are  questionable as hell) 
look as good as he did in 'Top Gun'.  
It is so intense that I should recheck my blood  pressure after watching it 
to document any physiological effects it might  inflict.
 
I've seen both "Top Gun" and "A Few Good Men"  several times and enjoyed them 
I might add.
 
What slays me is the artistic license  that screenwriters take when using a 
military setting.  Because you're  a hotshot lawyer does not mean you can walk 
into a superior's office  and act the way he does.  A Wingman never leaves 
formation.  The  1970's "M*A*S*H movie and TV show (I have all 11 seasons on dvd 
by the way) was  along the same lines as to their irreverence of military 
protocol.  In "Top  Gun", if someone in a flight squadron flew like he flew, 
they'd have thrown him  overboard.  In "A Few Good Men" his behavior in  court 
would have had him in front of a Court  Martial. 
 
Rank in the military is everything.   How good you are is down the list.  
 
Gale
 
 
 
 
 


 



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