Matthew Bowers

Matthew Bowers

Favorite films

  • It's a Wonderful Life
  • Forrest Gump
  • Groundhog Day
  • Ferris Bueller's Day Off

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  • The Master

    ★★★½

  • The Bounty

    ★★★★

  • We Were Soldiers

    ★★★★

  • Full Metal Jacket

    ★★★

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  • The Bounty

    The Bounty

    ★★★★

    Historically accurate, adventurous, lotta boobs.

  • We Were Soldiers

    We Were Soldiers

    ★★★★

    The best depiction of combat in Vietnam is periodically interrupted by one of the worst depictions of 1960s American home life and race relations.

    The battle of the Ia Drang Valley represents one of the only bright spots in the Vietnam war for the United States.

    Far from misleading his audience, the Director takes the time to deliver a foreboding message from the perspective of a Vietnamese general. He surveys the hundreds of dead and wounded comrades and says “Such…

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  • Napoleon

    Napoleon

    A major whiff by a UK director Ridley Scott who seems hell bent on ridiculing Napoleon. This film is a 3 hour slog of tired British propaganda that fails to deliver either entertainment or history.

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