史丹利庫柏力克的《金甲部隊》被視為影史上最重要的越戰電影之一,影片檢視了戰爭的虛幻與無情,冷眼旁觀戰爭的可笑,卻又充滿反戰的意味。
改編自越戰作家古斯塔哈斯福特的短篇小說〈The Short-Timers〉,在冷調而寂涼的鏡頭下,電影前半描述軍營如何以剝奪人性的管教,訓練出只知服從命令的殺人機器,後半則描述真實戰場中的血腥殘殺。全片冷冽、安靜地從旁側寫軍人被訓練成殺人機器的過程,再延伸至戰場上的無情殺戮。看似沒有任何主觀批判,卻盡在不言中,隱藏在完美的技巧下,依然可見大師深刻的人性觀。力道十足的程度,甚至讓這部戰爭經典在2002年成為美國電影協會影史百大「驚悚片」之一,更是戰爭電影的典範。
A collection of Monty Python's Flying Circus skits from the first two seasons of their British TV series.
A bored Colorado ski patrolman comes to New Zealand for the winter season. In between skiing on various North and South Island fields and preparing for the "Ironman' endurance contest, he has a good time with the people he meets. Billy T. James features briefly as an entertainer cum 'fright-a-minute'- aviator. This is a hybrid genre, a semi-dramatized documentary with champion skiers playing themselves.