looking for movie title

[jimmyd]

i only saw a short part of this but here's the best description i can give. gary busey , a bunch of south pacific  natives (new guinians?) and some (english/aussies? not sure) fight a bunch o japanness soldgers during worl war II apperant ly the japaness turn canabal and eat the population of one village, and theres a battle in which most of the japanness and brits/aussies dies other wis i have no idea about the movie

[Dave Munger]

"The Return Of The King", indescribably horrible, distills everything that sucks about Dances With Wolves and it's ilk into one huge steaming turd. Busey's doing some kind of damn pirate voice or something the whole time. Arr, arr, my peeeple, arrr. Maybe that's not the movie your talking about, I don't rememer cannibals, but I didn't watch the whole thing. Glad to get it off my chest anyway.

[Deej]

Dave Munger wrote:

> "The Return Of The King", indescribably horrible, distills
> everything that sucks about Dances With Wolves and it's ilk
> into one huge steaming turd.

You may be thinking of Farewell To The King, starring that other lunatic freak show, Nick Nolte. But, you're absolutely right about the horrible part! Steaming turd is a more than apt discription. I don't recall cannibals in that one, but I may have blacked it out.

[Yaddo42]

The cannibalism was alluded to during a voiceover in the film. The Japanese, running short of supplies had begun to eat captured natives, Allied troops, and even their own wounded and dead IIRC. Besides the fearsome reputation of their commander this was the reason the Japanese unit was so feared.

I agree the film is a disappointment, but it's not really that much worse that the source novel by Pierre Schoendoerffer, which I read many years after seeing the movie. I was surprised when double checking about the movie with IMDB, to see it was directed by macho movie favorite John Milius, which I had forgotten apparently. But looking back it does seem to have a lot of the themes of the nobility and honor of warriors, and old ways or cultures being swept away by the incursion of the modern world.

But now I'm curious to see it again since IMDB says Wayne Pygram (Scorpius on "Farscape") has a role in the film.

[Dave Munger]

I think Farewell to the King is the title I was looking for. Why can I never tell Gary busey from Nick Nolte? They're totally different. I'll bet the movie jimmyd's talking about is totally different too. All I really remember is the guy always being all "Grr, I've gone all native, arrr, these are my peeeeple, graarr." The tagline should have been "Not really that much worse than the source material". Why does the nobility of the pathetic obsolete loser culture always have to be epitomized by a white American deserter?