Review of The Tillman Story (2010) by Jarett B — 04 Mar 2011

"Errr, ummm, Don't ask... What... Your country... Can do for you. Umm, weeell, Instead!... Ask... What you...ummm... Can do....err... For your country!" (Echo, echo, echo...). Ladies and Gents, that was my Kennedy impression.

Oh, you're too kind! Really, it's nothing... Just like JFK's words (OH, bet ya didn't see that one coming! From a Canadian!). What a story; this blows fiction out of the water. Obviously, I'm spoiling nothing here, because it's just too priceless a film, but, BUT, to see the top military staff before congress, Rumsfeld too!, lying through their holes--a mere 20 feet from the Tillman family--and then smile and congratulate each other AS SOON AS THE GAVEL FALLS! F**k me! You can't write that kind of drama.

.. I'm out of breath. It's incredible to see what a nation will do during wartime to promote patriotism--scary actually. The "men" who organized Tillman's heroism (*cough* Bush/Rummy), could make me into a mythical Jesus loving, country abiding, hung-ho, Arab huntin', national hero--even as I grab my crotch from inside my casket.

.. Amazing. These guys NEED to go into marketing (Tyler Perry & Donnie Rums Presents: The Patriot/TBS Burger--Light's out for the BigMac). Well... where do I go from here? Honestly, Tillman appears (from the Doc's perspective) like an old-school winning warrior, something like the modern day Sheener? Nah.

The only thing you can say negatively about the guy is that he had yet to track and kill a grizzly with his bare hands. Seriously. A 'man's man' to the end, and then royally f**ked...