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Movie Reviews of Tank
Movie Review: James Garner is So Great
Summary: 3 Stars
This is a pretty decent film. I especially loved James Garner. His character is a Master Sergeant in the army and Garner plays him with a full measure of tough charm. If you liked Garner in "The Rockford Files" then you will probably like him in this as well.
The plot has to do with Garner using an old Sherman tank to bust his teeneage son (C. Thomas Howell) out of a prison farm in Georgia. The kid was put in there by a corrupt local sheriff. After exhausting all the usual methods of helping his son, the Sergeant is driven to desperation. He wants to use the tank to transport his son all the way to Tennessee, where he hopes to get a fair hearing from the officials there. Of course, the trip is fraught with complications.
The plot is not meant to be taken too seriously. It is a largely light-hearted film. I enjoyed watching it and it was a true pleasure to see James Garner do such a great job.
Movie Review: This was PG!?
Summary: 3 Stars
I am surprised that this had a PG rating. Many characters swear, and I don't mean the PG-13 stuff. Also, there is brief nudity here. In fact, the scene is a bit masochistic and some may get a pleasure from it. This film has many familiar faces from the 1970s and early 1980s.Movie Review: Probably Garner's worst film.
Summary: 2 Stars
I love James Garner movies and TV shows, except this one. Sorry James, but experimenting with foul language and adult situations in a less than respectful manner does not fit your character. I still respect and enjoy your other endeavors, but Tank is trash! I tried to fix the stars down to zero, but it wouldn't let me. Sorry but it gets a zero from me.Movie Review: I've taken sides with Neil Young
Summary: 1 Stars
And if Lynyrd Skynyrd was to write a response song to this review I encourage them. To me this movie was alright when I first saw it when I was 17 years old, but now as an adult I feel that the movie would make me puke. I find it rather nauseating. I feel that the sherrif in this movie is a demon, and I run from demons. He's all dressed up in white, and he tries to act super holy in public that I've given him the name "Lilliwhite". However, don't let that fool you; he's pure evil as he tries to bully not only his deputy, but a young prostitute as well, and in turn the deputy bullies the prostitute. Lilliwhite feels he can do no wrong, and unfortunately I feel that this could be the wrong image of the southern man. If I'm right then I can gripe all I want, but if I'm wrong then by all means let's do it as it's mentioned in Isaiah 1:18: "Come and let us reason together." Because this is the way southern men have been portrayed to me where the father tries to act like he's God, and he bullies his sons to break, and rape thier souls, and if he(The Father) does anything wrong it's pencilled away with a "Do as I say...not as I do", or a "Let that be a lesson to you"; instead of portraying himself as a humble man he justifies his actions his motives. I feel that's no way for a father to act whether he's from the north, south, east, or west. This isn't right, and unfortuantely, the deputy only did what he learned from Lilliwhite the father figure. Anyway this is not all bad a movie because if it were it would've gotten a minus 2 star rating from me. There are some tender moments with James Garner's character, and his son as his father tries to spring him from a prison work camp where he was sentenced on a trumped up charge for marijuana possession. You see there's a difference here between 2 fathers. Garner's character owned up to not only meeting with the young prostitute, but also for decking the deputy for slapping her around in the first place, and then you have Lilliwhite who after he lost the major tug of war on a mudpile, and was arrested for corruption all he could do was slam his deputy's face into the mud. As I said this is the personification of the southern man, and how he raises his sons that he breaks thier spirit and rapes thier souls through mental, emotional, and many a time physical abuse, and that father can do no wrong for he is the only figure of God that the kids have, and so the sons grow up, and do the same thing that thier fathers did to them, and to me as I said that's not right, so that's why I gave the movie such a low rate. It's just too much to see without getting ticked off. As I said if there are any Southern men out there who want to rebuke this "Come and let us reason together."Movie Review: Tank
Summary: 1 Stars
I really enjoy the 'movie'. I have had it on VHS for years, waiting for it to come out on DVD, to replace the VHS copy I have. However if you previously purchased the first release from Goodtimes Home Video, DON'T waste your money on this 'so-called' newer release.
Other than the picture on the box, this 'newer' release from Universal is no different than the original release of this title from Goodtimes Home Video!
The Product Details 'fails' to mention that this Universal release in the Full Frame Format, just like the version from Goodtimes Home Video. It also 'fails' to state that the Universal release is in 'Mono' just as the release from Goodtimes Home Video. So what's the difference? Both are Full Frame, both are in Mono, which the Product Description fails to mention. The only difference is the picture on the box!
In one of the reviews I read, it stated, "This movie was previously avalable from Goodtimes Home Video in Full Screen Format. As this release is from Universal Studios we can only hope it will be released in it's Original Aspect Ratio."
Well it wasn't! And again, the Product description failed to state this! Also the new release from Universal, just as the release from Goodtimes Home Video, didn't add any additional menu features included on the DVD. So again, what is the difference? They are the same exact DVD, packaged in two different boxes, with the exception that the Goodtimes release is in the 'snap' type box and the Universal is in the 'clamshell' type box.