Slaughterhouse Five (DVD)

...movies is George Roy Hill's Slaughterhouse Five, based on Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.'s popular novel and written by Stephen Gellar with respect to the novel, but without the repetitious saying 'And so it goes.' The 1972 movie shows the bleakness behind those words instead. I'm sorry to say that I once picked up the novel because I had so enjoyed Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions, Cat's Cradle and Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons, but I didn't care to read ...
...fantasy life on Tralfamadore! Slaughterhouse Five might not seem like an intelligent movie at first glance, but it definitely is. I might compare it to 1970's Catch-22, which captured the comic, similarly confusing, struggles of a fighter pilot to save his life and get out of the war, also based on a novel I haven't read and should (Joseph Heller, author). Billy too is trying to live his life on his own terms, through fantasy, though, to escape ...

jankperegrine 18.06.2006 · Read full review
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Take Billy Pilgrim, our hero. And take him on a trip along his life. Travelling in time. OK, so we're in the realms of science fiction and we're staying there. The majority of Pilgrims travels we get to see are parts of his life when he was a GI who was captured during World War 2. He's unlucky enough to get sent to Dresden and be there when it got bombed by the allies. (If it had nothing military there, WHY were they bombing it?). You get to see ...
...of his own death. He's also abducted by sex obsessed aliens who just want to watch him mating. I haven't read the book so I can't compare the 2 but the film is good, It kept me glued to the story all the way through. Well worth a look. ...

atytyut2434 02.08.2008 · Read full review
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