Ok so, have you ever seen a movie where the something ruined it for you because it was later parodied or by the time you saw it, it had become such a cliché that it was hard to get past it and just enjoy it? I've known folks who didn't like "The Godfather" because it was full of Italian mob movie clichés. Yeah. Well this movie features a theme song that was apparently shamelessly ripped off in "Police Academy". Having seen more of the Police Academy movies than I care to remember or admit, I can't dissociate the theme song from the nyuk-nyuk laughs of the movies, such as they were.
Good film though, won a bunch of statues. The combat violence is tame by today's "Saving Private Ryan" standards and the horrors of war in general are whitewashed pretty thoroughly.
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For a laugh check out Robert Folk's composing credits. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006077/
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