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Movie review: The Lucky Ones -- 2 out of 5 stars
2008-09-26
Of all the movies about the current Iraq War, good or bad, passionate or indifferent, The Lucky Ones is the only one to embrace "daft." This all-over-the-place road-picture dramedy puts three wounded GIs in a minivan and takes them to a bar and a church, through a car wreck and a tornado, dealing with each other's "issues" willy-nilly along the way. It's something of a well-intentioned mess.

Tim Robbins plays Cheever, the cynical Army reserve sergeant on his way home to his wife and son and suburban St. Louis life after a long tour and a back injury. Rachel McAdams is Colee, the limping, drawling and way-too-chatty country girl-private delivering a dead comrade's treasured guitar to his surviving relatives.

Michael Peña plays T.K., the luckiest one of all. He was hit by shrapnel, but the M-16 in his lap absorbed most of the blow. Not all of it, though. He has sexual-dysfunction worries.
Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC

#7  I don't support Tim Robbins or his wife Susan Sarandon in their endeavors. They can get on without me. They think we are all chumps.

This movie sounds a lot like a remake of a movie about three retuning wounded vets during the WWII era except for the car wreck, tornado, personal issues, willy nillyness, Tim Robbins, etc. Forget it, it doesn't really sound similar.
Posted by: JohnQC   2008-09-26 19:12  

#6  Wasn't Bruce Willis going to do a movie about the unit in Iraq Michael Yon was embedded with? Deuce Five I think the unit was called.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2008-09-26 17:20  

#5  It is aggravating that if someone were just to produce a low budget movie with Americans as the good guys in the Iraq war, it would probably be a huge hit.

Hell, you could film it in Iraq, with Iraqis as extras and even supporting stars. To avoid any sectarian problems, make al-Qaeda the bad guys, and script the movie based on real anecdotes by US and Iraqi military.

The Pentagon would probably give full cooperation, which would multiply your budget by a factor, and you could use veterans as actors.

Even going direct to DVD, you would probably clear $50M net.

A rule of thumb is that a drama is made by its villains, not its heroes. No problem here. Some of the al-Qaeda shit would be banned in one of the Saw movies. It would have to be seriously toned down, and parts would have to be edited out to make it just an R rating (even though it would not need a rating, being DVD release.)
Posted by: Anonymoose   2008-09-26 16:46  

#4  Have to pass; the air in my tires needs rotating.
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2008-09-26 12:07  

#3  Looks like another winner...
Posted by: tu3031   2008-09-26 10:09  

#2  I boycott anything with Tim Robbins.
Posted by: DarthVader   2008-09-26 09:25  

#1  I've seen the trailers for this...looks like typical hollyweed horse-hockey...anything marrying up tim robbins w/the iraq war is gonna suck.
Posted by: Broadhead6   2008-09-26 08:17  

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