Dogfight (1991)

Pop Culture Phenomenon Films: 90’s (1929 movies items)

" In 1963, the night before the 18 years old "Birdlace" Eddie and his friends are shipped to Vietnam. They play a dirty game called 'Dogfight': all of them seek a woman for a party, and who finds the most ugly one, wins a prize. Eddie finds the lonesome pacifist Rose working in a coffee shop. She's happy to accompany him - but then she sees through the game. However by this time he already learned to like her, so he follows her home. Will he manage to win her heart despite their difference"

The Evolution of Brendan Fraser (73 movies items)

"Sailor #1 (as Brendan Fraser)"

Film Diary 2021 (210 movies items)

"17.5 "Let me tell you something about bullshit. It's everywhere. You hit me with a little, I buy it. I hit you with a little, you buy it. It doesn't make us idiots. That's what makes us buddies. We buy what the corps hand out, and that's what makes us marines. And the corps buy all the bullshit from president kennedy, and president kennedy is buying all the bullshit from everybody in the US of the fucking A, and that's what makes us Americans.""

Watched in 2019 (87 movies items)

"January 2nd, 2019"

Movies I've Streamed Outside of Netflix (180 movies items)

"Pros: Reasonably engaging; very good performance by Lili Taylor (the late River Phoenix is fine as her co-star, but I thought that Taylor did a better job as his "ugly" joke-victim-turned-sort-of-love-interest; perhaps I'm just judging Phoenix by his character, though, whom I really didn't care for); great soundtrack of sixties songs (the film is set during the Vietnam Era). Cons: Drags at times; also (as mentioned above) I didn't like or even particularly care about the "Eddie Birdlace" charac"