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Johnny Got His Gun [1971] | ![Johnny Got His Gun [1971]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41C11ZR6K9L._SL75_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Dalton Trumbo
Actors: Timothy Bottoms, Kathy Fields, Marsha Hunt, Jason Robards, Donald Sutherland
Studio: Arrow Films
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 14545
Format: Pal
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 115
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5027035003122
ASIN: B00023JH68
Theatrical Release Date: 1971
Release Date: June 7, 2004
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Best film I have seen in a long time! Ace! April 24, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Whenever I saw the music video for Metallica's 'one' I found the clips of this film in it intriguing so I decided to watch the film.
What the character, Joe, in this film is going through is completely incomprehensible. No arms, no legs, no face but still living & mentally active. That's whats so disturbing.
If the ending of this film doesn't leave you spooked, I'll eat my hat!!
"SOS, Kill me" May 4, 2006
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
What would you do if you lost your arms, your legs, you cannot talk and you get confined to a bedroom in some gloomy hospital? Well, that's the thing about this movie. A young man went to war and ended like a human waste. What we understand is that the war is not a joke, not a bomb and explosion movie. War is this, a mutilated guy who only wants to die to end the nightmare.
Johnny give us his perspective of his environment and of his new "world": feeding, bath, test, people coming and so on. The continuos flashbakcs give us more perspective of his life and what he was before the accident.
Sometimes hard to see, it's a beautiful movie in the end, powerful and emotive.
Johnny got his gun September 3, 2004
23 out of 25 found this review helpful
This is one of the most powerful movies i have ever watched, i guess the impact and origionality of this film makes it more of a one time watch than something you can see over and over again. This isnt a bad factor though, as the impact of watching it for the first time is one that you will never forget.
While the movie flitters between the present and Joe's memories, the atmosphere never changes, constantly drenched in depression and despair. While every second of the movie adds to the macabre feeling, one of the most clostraphobic scenes comes when Joe realising and having to come to terms with the fact that he has no arms, no legs, and no face and that he is trapped inside his mind for the rest of his 'life.' Its impossible to even imagine being in such a horrific position. The scenes featuring Joe's hallucinations of Christ are especially intriguing and sadenning at the same time. The ending shows off the purity and heart of some people and likewise the stubbornness and twisted nature of others, all this surrounded by a incredibly heavy atmosphere.
The overall appearence that this film takes on is an intense portrait of the horrific nature of war. The sight and the thought of Joe's condition is enough to turn anyone anti-war and for that the director is successful. It gives a devastatingly real insight into what could happen to what the government uses as nameless puppet soldiers, and shows that the soldiers actually have lives, relationships, famillies and hopes that are obliterated as they're sent to war to die or even worse, end up like Joe at such young stages of their lives, upon someonelses desicion.
Horrifying, gripping, unforgetable and real!
 A very good film June 25, 2004
5 out of 9 found this review helpful
I have only recently seen this film, I have been trying for years to get a copy of it without much success. I read the book years ago. The film however in my opinion does not have quite the same impact as the book. The book is much more thought-provoking.Both the film and the book are very good warnings on the horror of war. Yes, the character in it is an extreme case but countless people have returned from wars throughout the years in similar situations with limbs missing, blind, deaf, etc. (Some might say that they were the lucky ones; at least they got to come home alive!) I think every politician should be made sit down and read this book (or watch the film) before they are allowed to make a decision to send soldiers out to war!
The Horror of War May 26, 2004
16 out of 18 found this review helpful
The Horror of War: This film has haunted me ever since I saw it on television a number of years ago. Like the film “All Quiet on The Western Front” it is a timeless anti-war movie quickly dispelling the “Action and Glamour” myth of war. As a 3rd generation volunteer of Combat Medics (myself a casualty of Desert Storm (Father serving in the Korean War)) I can bear witness to my Grandfathers event of not retuning home from France to the Beat of the Drum and the Flag waving at the end of the Great War as he had to remain in Service an extra year as a Medic looking after the backlog of casualties. After the Glories of Battle the filth of The Battle is dumped into the Medics, Doctors and Nurses lap; “The Living Dead – The Unwanted”. Anyone who watches the film will remember it again in November when the Poppy Tubs come out. This film represents the attitude of the “system” to this very day. A must watch........ Also a compelling plea for Governments to find a peaceful settlement / solution before condemning the youth of their own Nation... R.A.B.
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