I can't think of many better films about soldiers in basic training but in terms of ones about soldiers actually in battle, I'm not sure it's even on the radar. Weird because if there's one director I'd have thought would really come into his own in a big war sequence it's surely Kubrick.
But obviously Severian finds something in it that we don't which is how a favourite film usually works. Few of my very favourite movies are without flaws but they somehow manage to connect, sometimes in spite of those flaws and sometimes even, in part, because of them.
Speaking of flawed, I watched
Street Trash last night. It starts out sort of ok, in an 80s straight to video kind of way (it feels like a Troma film but isn't) but sort of grinds to a halt about halfway through. Although it does have a guy dissolving into a toilet and then coming back up as the monster from Basket Case, so all is not lost.
