Johnny Got His Gun Reviews

I remember it very well when I saw this flick. Indeed, I was just a teenager, about 14-15 years old maybe slightly older, and my English teacher gave us this movie to watch and, to be honest, it was a total disaster. Indeed, try to imagine a class full of excited teenagers watching this seminal classic. Within this misguided context, it was hard not to laugh when you have a guy without limbs basically tripping when you have all your buddies around. With such a crowd, we should have rather watched ‘Pulp Fiction, ‘Trainspotting’ or ‘Fight Club’ which are also classics but much easier to relate to when you are around that age. Later on, I kept thinking about this flick and, to be honest, I have always been ashamed by our immature reaction. I think we reacted like that because we simply never saw something like this before. Indeed, we probably had watched dozens and dozens of senseless action flicks where 100s of people got killed for no good reasons without thinking about it for a second but, suddenly, we were suddenly supposed to spend almost 2 hours with a victim who had lost his arms, legs, eyes, ears, mouth and nose and it was something we had no clue how to handle properly. Anyway, it is in fact a great flick, one of the best anti-war features ever made, it has haunted me ever since and it is definitely worth a look.