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Yar, you be here: Coming Home > Customer Reviews Coming Home Customer Reviews (10 - 12 of 21 Reviews)Offensive garbage
This is in the running for the worst film I have ever seen. It is deeply offensive to me. No, it is not the anti-Vietnam War message that offends me. I'm fine with that. The Vietnam War was an atrocity committed by my country against the Vietnamese patriots who just wanted freedom. It is a national disgrace that America was on the wrong moral side of this war, that we were 100% wrong to be there and try to prevent the Vietnamese people from getting what we are trying to give the Iraqi people now, a democracy where they could simply vote for their own leaders. We were the ones who prevented them from taking that vote. We forced an unwanted regime down their throats. We split their country in two. We had no damn business there. Eisenhower should have kept his promise to allow a vote. Truman should not have turned his back on western-educated patriot Ho Chi Minh, who wanted us as his allies. Truman should not have forced Ho Chi Minh to turn to the communists. It was all a miserable and demonic blunder on our part, trying to keep Vietnam as a French colony when India and the Middle East were winning their freedom from England in the post-war years. So as you can see, I am completely in agreement with the politics of this movie. But I still hate the movie. Jon Voigt plays a despicable (...) who is seducing a married moron played by Jane Fonda. Her acting is cardboard in this movie, the worst I've ever seen her. But it is his role that annoys me the most. It's not his acting. It's the script. We are supposed to sympathize with this immoral (...) because he is in a wheelchair and because he is right on Vietnam. What about her husband? (...) GREAT FILM
John Voight is awesome in this one. It's an anti-war film but takes an interesting look at how the soldiers coming back from Vietnam deal with their situations. It's different with every one. Jane Fonda plays a good role, but Voight is the one to see here, especially his speech to the high school kids about war. It's blunt, but from the heart. The main character's message is "Before you enter the war theatre, one has no idea of the HELL that awaits." War is a barbaric game played by morons. Let's wake up and smell the coffee. We're still blowing things up and killing innocent people in the middle east, all in the name of the proud USA. When are we going to try to understand each other? Too much hate. HORSE MANURE
As if to counter-balance "The Deer Hunter", good old Jane Fonda starred in "Coming Home" (1978) with Jon Voight. Saved by the pure benevolence of American goodwill from a treason trial, she was allowed to pursue her craft (she is excellent at it). "Coming Home" seemed to be the realization of the self-fulfilling prophecy she created in 1972. It was that year that she traveled to Hanoi, the heart of America's enemy, and allowed herself to be posed on Communist tanks, wearing an army helmet. It was blatant "aid and comfort" provided to an enemy during a time of war. Jane did not stop there. Like a modern day Tokyo Rose, she got on the radio and told the troops their wives and girlfriends were having sex with hippies and protestors back home. To this day, the G.I.s have never forgiven "Hanoi Jane". She tried to apologize and say she was wrong, but her heart was never in it. Eventually she married CNN founder Ted Turner, a man who may not be the anti-Christ (but may be), and may not have achieved his success by invoking Satan (but may have). When Turner saw CNN employees adorned in "ashes" to worship Ash Wednesday, he went ballistic about "Jesus freaks" in his employ. Such a crime! Jane, in the first move she ever did that I liked (other than wearing skintight sex clothes in her hot-selling workout vids), declared she was a "born again Christian." That was the last straw for Turner, who divorced her. There is no word on whether Christianity took in Jane's life, but I wish her well. In "Coming Home", she portrays the very cheating wife she described to the boys in her "Hanoi Jane" days. She tries to pepper the performance with an apology to her officer husband, Bruce Dern, but it ends up being more of an explanation, which in light of what we know about Vietnam does not wash. Two thumbs down. STEVEN TRAVERS
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