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...that when it seems to be losing momentum, Snyder injects humor to restore the tempo. And “Watchmen” certainly laughs at itself at times, from its over-the-top sex scene to some comical music choices, such as “Ride of the Valkyries?? as Dr. Manhattan wins in Vietnam. Inclusion of Jimi Hendrix’s rendition of “All Along the Watchtower” and the overused Simon and Garfunkel hit “The Sounds of Silence” feels heavy-handed and forced, but Bob Dylan?...
...marines fetishize combat; they treat the war movies they watch on the rec room film projector like pornos, moaning orgasmically as Martin Sheen’s helicopter swoops down on Vietnamese villages while Wagner’s “The Ride of the Valkyries?? blares in the background. But Swofford and his fellow marines never get the conflict they want to fight. When the war ends without climax, the soldiers fire their rifles in the air in a masturbatory barrage. As the soldiers go home, it’s clear the Marine Corps has been a cocktease...
...Gazette,” recalls a shellshocked Thomas A. Coppola ’03, “when suddenly I was in the rice paddies with Charlie everywhere.” Declared a crazed Patel—as Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries?? played in her mind—“I love the smell of lip balm in the morning?...
Moreover, “Ride of the Valkyries?? is played during a violent early morning napalm attack, led by a sadistic commander, on a bunch of innocent villagers. In its eagerness to display more patriotism than its rivals, Fox Sports seems to be suggesting that it will lead ordinary Americans to support of random attacks of indiscriminate violence as reprisal for the, well, random attacks of indiscriminate violence against Americans on the 11th...
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