Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2016)

People are voting emotionally.

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

What a freaking movie. So many twists and turns. Absolutely intense from start to finish.

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

let's go back to the safe place, so let's go back to the war. How ironic yet how true. Ode to human souls. That's what makes Ang Lee's movies always interesting to watch. Keep questioning everything ppl take for granted and keep exploring the loneliness of human beings. Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk is definitely one of the best scripts in 2016.Seriously, what a shame for IMDb to have such a low rating of such a quality movie.

This is a good movie. All the discussion about it surrounds the technology used in making it, and that's necessary, but it's not the whole story -- nor is it NOT the story as others would have you believe. The simple fact is that this is a well-acted and at times completely engrossing anti-war picture, one that is more often than not, yes, let down by some of the failings of trying to show off the tech. Some scenes come across as incredibly "stage-y" for lack of a better word, and the lighting can be overlit fluorescent too often (like a docudrama).However, that being said, I did have the pleasure of actually being able to see this on 3D bluray and I must say it's absolutely the most stunning 3D I think I've ever seen. There's an incredible amount of depth to so many scenes -- sometimes it's showy, but sometimes it's in service of the story like when Billy comes home and the entrance hallway seems to stretch on forever out in front of him, inviting him in to its embrace but also providing a dark trap. The essential conundrum, the doublethink, at the center of his inner workings.

Another Ang Lee's film. Just like every of his film, «Billy Lynn's long halftime walk» is such a brilliant picture. It touched me a lot when Shroom died, and it was also at that moment I actually realised how dangerous it could be in the war. When the danger is everywhere, the only thing that we can do is trying our best not to be killed by the enemy. In this film, we can also notice that the Americans don't really understand what they do. Everyone has his own point of view of their identity. For some people, they are the hero of America; for the film producer, they are just "idea" or "story"; and for the dancers in the scene of Beyoncé, they are noting. By the way, the visual effect is fantastic. Wish that I could have seen it in the cinema. Excellent job.

I loved the book and it occurred to me more than once while reading that it would make a terrific movie. Maybe not so much. Perhaps the kind of books you see instantly as a "terrific" movie should be left in the film can in your head. From the opening scenes to whenever we petered out and turned it off, this film feels false. The platoon doesn't feel like young men who've lived and fought together. They seem like actors who have never crossed paths with people who make up our military these days. That may not be the case but that's what it feels like to someone who ...also doesn't cross paths with soldiers often. And maybe that's what's wrong with movie. Fountain's point is the disconnect between Americans and the warriors they send off to do battle for them. Perhaps it is expecting too much for that sentiment to be captured by those so removed by privilege. Read the book.