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{{film review|Runner Runner|Ben Affleck|5 March 2014|Routine, routine | {{a|film review|}}Runner Runner|Ben Affleck|5 March 2014|Routine, routine | ||
In the Eighties, legend has it, the US armed forces hit upon the idea of encouraging Hollywood to make recruitment films for them. Thus, ''An Officer and a Gentleman'', ''Top Gun'', ''Navy SEALS'' and ''Private Benjamin'' (okay: maybe not ''Private Benjamin'') were bankrolled by Uncle Sam specifically to make the military look glamorous so impressionable minds might sign up. As far as my mates were concerned it had the desired effect. Since we were slap bang in the middle of Nowheresville, South Pacific, they enlisted not for the Top Gun program but as RNZAF cadets and wound up clanking around the Chatham Islands in a forty-year-old Hercules. As far as I know they’re still doing it now. As a consequence, to this day none of them can abide Val Kilmer. But no matter. | In the Eighties, legend has it, the US armed forces hit upon the idea of encouraging Hollywood to make recruitment films for them. Thus, ''An Officer and a Gentleman'', ''Top Gun'', ''Navy SEALS'' and ''Private Benjamin'' (okay: maybe not ''Private Benjamin'') were bankrolled by Uncle Sam specifically to make the military look glamorous so impressionable minds might sign up. As far as my mates were concerned it had the desired effect. Since we were slap bang in the middle of Nowheresville, South Pacific, they enlisted not for the Top Gun program but as RNZAF cadets and wound up clanking around the Chatham Islands in a forty-year-old Hercules. As far as I know they’re still doing it now. As a consequence, to this day none of them can abide Val Kilmer. But no matter. | ||
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