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Buffalo Soldiers (2003)

July. 25,2003
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6.7
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R
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A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin wall.

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Titreenp
2003/07/25

SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

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Sameer Callahan
2003/07/26

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

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Nayan Gough
2003/07/27

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

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Justina
2003/07/28

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

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CapnPicard
2003/07/29

The anti-American theme would appeal to Germans. I was there before the time of this move in the mid 80s in West Germany and I liked it. I was in the Air Force but we had Army on base and I went to Army bases too and there was no drug use in uniform or widespread black market selling of weapons or anything else! Drug use off duty by some and domestic abuse problems yes because enlisted were not paid much...kind of like living in a government housing project except in Germany! Yuk. There are fewer bases now but more or less the same thing. I know many people including myself who loved Europe. Too many ugly Americans and our dam fast food over there!

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Ryu_Darkwood
2003/07/30

American directors tend to glorify their war movies by adding a lot of heroism and false American nationalism. Buffalo Soldiers is a nice change on these kind of movies. It tells the story of a group of American soldiers so thoroughly bored that they kill time by smuggling drugs, drinking booze and fighting each other. It kinda reminds me of my father's stories of his short yet turbulent time in the army. He keeps on telling about all the wrong things they did to have a bit of fun in their forced presence in these days. The movie doesn't really have a grand message to deliver to its audience, but it is most definitely good for a few laughs. And Joaquin Phoenix shows a bit of the strong charisma he has in store for us in later movies ( Walk the line- the Johnny Cash biography- as his strongest one )

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awashingtonnote
2003/07/31

Important correction. The Buffalo Soldiers were distinguished African American units of the U.S. Army, commissioned after the Civil War, who received many medals before the armed services were integrated and they were disbanded. The derogatory title and criminal nature of this film, as well as the erroneous comment about the Buffalo soldiers have done bad things, does a serious disservice to their honor and valor. So named by the American Indians impressed by their bravery, the American frontier would not have developed into what it is today without the Buffalo Soldier's heroic service despite getting the worst assignments and suffering racial abuse by the very settlers they were charged to protect. Please check your history before attempting to make factual statements. It is ignorant and insensitive items like this that continue to perpetuate negative stereotypes about African Americans in the media. I am the proud decent of an African American solider who fought in the Civil War as a Union soldier and whose musket is exhibited in the Manassas Museum, the granddaughter of a WWI veteran, and the daughter of a Korean War veteran, who became a paratrooper so he could send an extra $50 a month home, I truly resent it that the memory of the Buffalo Soldiers has been defamed by this film. I have never seen this movie, nor do I care. And, I only signed on to this site, while doing research, to right yet another wrong.

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sf_millar
2003/08/01

The US Army is depicted as drug users, that's very kind, these people are murderers. Thought it was a good movie, can you image the stuff that the yanks are getting up to now in Iraq. Gang members signed up, people mentally unfit even for the Yanks getting into their armed forces wow, when this film was originally meant to come out all this might have looked like a bit of a lark but it is really dark when you think of what they will be up to now. Good movie that made you feel some sympathy for bad people. Would be real go d to see what they are up to. Seen pictures of yank soldiers clearly displaying gang and far right tattoos numerous times on the television - feel so sorry for those foolish farm boys that might be joining out of some form of misdirected patriotism. Loved the Ed Harris character captures the type of sycophant that rises to top in organization like that - nice to see him do good in the end though.

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