Because Kelly's Heroes is the world's finest movie and revolves around an intra-preneurial enterprise that hacks the mechanism of war for personal profit.
Basically its like Office Space and Three Kings rolled into one.
Kelly's Heroes is one of the best war movies in my opinion. He played Oddball very well. Oddball's line about how his commander was trying to get them killed since Normandy resonated with me.
My dad was an infantryman in World War 2 in the European Theater of Operations. His war book had a lot dead listed in it. He underlined the ones he knew. One was a lieutenant. I asked my dad about the lieutenant and my dad's response was, "He was a West Point asshole."
Being in a war doesn't make one a hero. Mostly you are fighting because you have to and your goal is for you and your buddies to survive.
The first image I have of Donald Sutherland is his character in The Great Train Robbery, which I think is a mostly forgotten movie which, for some reason, I was obsessed with as a teenager. Later, MASH and Kelly's Heroes, of course. He'll be missed, but his enormous catalog is a testament to his versatility.
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Because Kelly's Heroes is the world's finest movie and revolves around an intra-preneurial enterprise that hacks the mechanism of war for personal profit.
Basically its like Office Space and Three Kings rolled into one.
Kelly's Heroes is one of the best war movies in my opinion. He played Oddball very well. Oddball's line about how his commander was trying to get them killed since Normandy resonated with me.
My dad was an infantryman in World War 2 in the European Theater of Operations. His war book had a lot dead listed in it. He underlined the ones he knew. One was a lieutenant. I asked my dad about the lieutenant and my dad's response was, "He was a West Point asshole."
Being in a war doesn't make one a hero. Mostly you are fighting because you have to and your goal is for you and your buddies to survive.
The first image I have of Donald Sutherland is his character in The Great Train Robbery, which I think is a mostly forgotten movie which, for some reason, I was obsessed with as a teenager. Later, MASH and Kelly's Heroes, of course. He'll be missed, but his enormous catalog is a testament to his versatility.
As a kid, I watched Kelly's Heroes whenever it was on TV and loved him in it.
It was a joy to see him in so many movies throughout the years. He always elevated everything he was in. Great actor.
How has this not already been made into a film?
Did someone think "nah, this is too far fetched, people will never believe it" and make The Guns of Navarone, or Kelly's Heroes instead?