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Omg this reminds me of the scene where the corporal slaps Pan Rae and she comes back at him with a flying drop kick. I somehow missed that on my first watch and on my second watch I rewound it a few times So satisfying.

I didn't notice his accent at all! Btw Cam the actor playing Ki Su is in a K-pop band and his stage name is D.O. As in...

"What's your name Dr. Strange?" "Lincoln. Lincoln Nebraska. Dr. Strange is my stage name."

Do you guys think Jackson eventually made it to Okinawa?

How could I forget his catchphrase "By the Hoary Hosts of Hoggoth, don't mess with this cornhusker!"

Because canonically he’s from Nebraska!!! It’s integral to his character!

Boy, do I have some bad news for you about non-Americans in American movies!

Now that you’ve mentioned it, I can totally see it

Yeah, Jackson was probably sent to the US, dishonorably discharged, denied any benefits, and never tap danced again

I agree with Cameron and I don't think so. I mean when he is trying to save the dancers he says something to the effect "They are my family the only people I've ever been close to." Which I found odd given his wife and that in Okinawa. I got the impression that maybe he did not really love her but was merely going back to marry her as it was the right thing to do. Given that Roberts probably immediately sent him to back stateside, and given everything that happened I figure he just kinda gave up on doing the right thing.

This article agrees with you and most others in here.

Mr. Roberts is South African.

I'm not a fan of the "use real-life trauma/tragedy and make it the setting/background for a musical"-style of filmmaking. It would take a filmmaker with significant mastery of tonal changes to pull it off. A surprising number of those have come from Korea (Bong Joon-ho and Chan-wook Park amongst them) and Swing Kids has an interesting setting/idea for this type of musical. In my opinion, the director just can't pull it off. There are parts that work--I do like seeing the war from the Korean POV--but it's so stylized in a " look-at-this" kind of way that it feels like the director is just using a wartime setting to make flashy MTV-style dance-offs and comedy sequences (which really seems manipulative to me). The film had a weird Baz Luhrman over-the-topness to it. The point seems to be the style more than the subject matter, which was disappointing because there are good story elements here. Full disclosure: I didn't finish watching the movie. I made it past the sequence where the hero has the dance-off with the racist military dude and then the military dude frames the dance instructor. Somehow that sequence broke my eye-rolling:enjoyment ratio and enjoyment lost, so I called it a night.

We need a science-based strategy to defeat covid. Such as, sending a robot back in time to kill that bat's mom in Hubei.

Keep Calm and Poop On

So...what do you think happened to Pan Rae's siblings and the guy's wife?

To clarify, I think the ending is meant to be a huge bummer, so if they wanted to give Jackson some kind of a happy ending, they would have. There would have been a picture or a woman with him at the end. The feeling I get from the end of the movie is that this was the first time he had left America since he was discharged.

I thought he did but your response makes sense. I was hoping at least he stayed on the original base but now I...don't think so.

I...don’t think so.

Yes, Mr. Roberts. When he first started talking I thought he was British then he was somewhere between British and American. Haha Fair enough. Some people do it just fine, but others... why couldn't Doctor Strange be British?

They should've added - don't talk about your future plans. Right before the Swing Kids go on stage, the guy's like, right after this dance number I'm going straight to see my wife... Oh you have a point. I lost it on my second watch. Are you talking about the guy in charge of the camp, the general?

I think this would work better for me on a second watch. "Modern Love" was introduced kind of gradually, so when it kicked in, I was ready for it. When the first slide on the guitar hits for "Free as a Bird" hit, I found it pretty jarring. If I knew it was coming, though, I think I would appreciate it more.

One of my favorite bits was the moment where the dudes are in the tent and one of them is like, "Don't talk about the food you want to eat or about your past, otherwise you'll be the first to die." Then they all proceed to do just that and are immediately killed. I like meta moments like that. The entirety of Saving Private Ryan can be mapped out this way.

Interesting. I have never seen this version of Love Labour’s Lost even though, as an English major I wrote a paper on modern adaptations of Shakespeare around this time. Mostly because it’s not my fave Shakespeare play. And also, though I know nothing of the circumstances of their split, I took Emma Thompson’s side in her divorce from Branagh. Because she is objectively better. eta: instincts confirmed. I googled it. He had an affair.

I hope she stayed there to raise them. But given how the rest of the ending went... she was drove out of the village again and the kids starved and Linda had the last laugh. Boy, most everybody in this movie is a terrible person...