Say it ain't so! After 23 years together as an unmarried couple, Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins have broken up. This is one unhappy Hollywood ending I wasn't quite expecting. Is anyone else surprised? They seemed to be a happy couple, focused on each other and not what their relationship with each other could do for their careers. Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins have two sons together. Hopefully this at least means they plan on staying friends.
Does anyone in Hollywood have a chance of staying together forever?
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my quote on gather.som:
We combat veterans are real people. Meaning that we are just ordinary folks like the rest of you. It's just that we endured a tremendously difficult ordeal, requiring the setting aside of our life for a few years, and maybe a lot more. In one of the scenes the wounded soldier played by Michael Pena ( Payn-yah) awakens with a shout from a nightmare, startling the others awake, and then they all go back to sleep. The scene was NOT overplayed, with gory images...just something that one might expect to happen from someone with images of near death stored away deep inside.Every actor starring in this movie turns in an absolutely flawless performance. The script writing is absoltuely top drawer.
Each of them were injured is someway, and are given a break from the war, and are each on a mission to get back to loved ones, or just simply remember what it was like to be a civilian... all in a 30 day leave.
There are no dramatic, or violent scenes, so the story moves along in a very realistic manner. I think it may be easy in an action film to segue from the hurtling car crash, to the chase on foot down the alley scene, to the beat yuou to a pulp scene. But in a movie like this, so close to being real, it is harder to make the movie a 'page turner'. But this movie REALLY is. Each little scene quietly unfolds into the next. You really do find yourself'on edge' so to speak, to see what they experience next. Ordinary people who happen to be making an extraordianry sacrifice for all Americans, now and for the future. Rachel McAdams plays a wounded vet also. It's best that I not reveal the personal struggles each are making. I need to leave that for you to experience first hand. I could mention that the kinds of interactions with civilians is awkward, and revealing. Some are good. but many of them, if you were one of these soldiers, it would be hard not to smack the crap out of their faces, at least once... This is what makes this movie maintain a certain crackling tension from start to finish. I assure you...if you are a veteran, or the family member of a veteran, it will make you cry, and feel joy and pride all at the same moment.
It also may well help us to understand Tim Robbins split with Susan Sarandon. She has long been of the ( emasculaitng) feminista camp, and would probably have turned this movie into a most unwelcome and sappy anti war flick we have grown weary of. Somebody has to go to war, people. If you are too squeamish for it...then admit it and shut the hell up. Admit that there are people vastly more brave and more selfless than most people are. Just turn on the TV and watch the Ken and Barbie anchors gush over the latest sexy star starring in some incredibly stupid, amoral s___bag of a movie.
That is what this movie is about.