This All But Proves My Theory That Sam Jackson Is In 75% Of All Movies Ever Made

Samuel L. Jackson has just about appeared in every movie I've watched in the past 6 months.
Ok, maybe I'm massively over-exaggerating, but seriously, he's massively over-working. He's in too many movies. Too many!!!!

He just never stops. When was the last time he had a fucking vacation? I can't remember one time where I've stopped and thought, "Hmm, I haven't seen anything new from Samuel Jackson in a while?" Do you know why? Because there is always a new Samuel fucking L. fucking Jackson movie on the immediate horizon.

Home of the Brave, the next in a looooong string of upcoming Jackson movies, is a pretty generic offering at best. It's a statement on the war, not just the war in Iraq where the movie has its basis, but on war in general and how it affects people's lives. The reason that this is generic is that what it explores is everything you'd expect it to explore.
The war made my son hate me, the war made me have scary dreams, the war made me hold up a fast-food store and get held up in a siege situation. It's all such a characature of what you'd expect of a group of shell-shocked, hardened warriors returning home.

If anything, war beats the crap out of the metaphorical cookie cutter, and creates an unpredictability of which noone can define. This is not the movie to convey that idea.


Everyone seems miscast in this movie. Sam Jackson as a regular Joe Bloggs family man??? Please!!! I bet he doesn't even say 'motherfuckin' in the entire running time. MISCAST!
Jessica Biel. In Iraq. Avoiding RPG blast debris. MISCAST. Curtis 'Fifty Cent' Jackson. In a movie. MISCAST.
Such an estranged, ungelled cast being thrown into roles that demand to be typecasted. This is the equivalent of the challenged child trying to bash the triangular block into the square hole. Not only does the block get damaged, but the hole too. And possibly the kid's hand trying to force it in there.

If anything can be learnt from this, it's that voilence is damaging to everyone. Whether it be your alienated wife, or 50 Cent's career, everything and everyone suffers.
It doesn't look like an especially great movie, and it has a so-so trailer that quite uncomfortably switches from a tragic, moving tone to an upbeat happy one while they are showing all the key characters' lives falling apart around them. It just looks so incredibly bland and uninvolving.

Also, either Jessica Biel's hands are really small, or her boyfriend is The Incredible Hulk. Discuss.


Home of the Brave - MGM
Anticipation Level: Low.
Look out for: The aforementioned Hulk-Fist. That, honest to god, was the biggest highlight of the trailer for me.
US Release date: 15th December, 2006.
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