In 2003, 30 years after they served together in the Vietnam War, former Navy Corps medic Richard. Nov 02, 2017 'Last Flag Flying,' 'Thank You for Your Service' offer cynical, timely takes on patriotism. New dramas from Richard Linklater and the writer of 'American. Last Flag Flying has 72 ratings and 10 reviews. Dave said: Last Flag Flying is a sequel to The Last Detail, a 1970 book that became a 1973 movie star. From left: Bryan Cranston, Steve Carell and Laurence Fishburne in “Last Flag Flying,” directed by Richard Linklater. Credit Wilson Webb/Lionsgate Richard Linklater is one of the great listeners in American movies. At his best — most canonically in the trilogy but also in films like “Slacker,” “Dazed and Confused” and “Waking Life” — he quiets the engine of plot, keeps the camera at a polite, attentive distance and lets people talk. The content of the conversations is important, but so are the more subtle kinds of information that human speech conveys: the unstated emotions and idiosyncrasies of character that flow alongside and underneath the words. “Last Flag Flying,” Mr. Linklater’s new feature, is a suite for three voices. It’s a lot of other things, too. A war movie, in its way, and also a road picture and a memory play. Set in 2003, at the stage of the Iraq war when we were assured that the mission was being handily accomplished, it brings together three Vietnam veterans for a somber task. Sal Nealon (Bryan Cranston) and Richard Mueller (Laurence Fishburne) are former Marines. Larry Shepherd (Steve Carell) — his nickname was Doc — served in the Navy. Long-buried bad memories shadow their reunion and complicate their camaraderie, and the circumstances of their meeting dredges up the painful and complex legacy of their not-so-long-ago war. Video Trailer: ‘Last Flag Flying’. Back then, Doc served time in the brig and received a bad-conduct discharge — he mordantly calls it a “better career decision” — a fact that connects “Last Flag Flying” to an earlier work, Hal Ashby’s That movie, released in 1973 and starring Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid and Otis Young, was based on a novel by, whose sequel to that book is the basis of Mr. Linklater’s film. Linklater and Mr. Ponicsan collaborated on the screenplay.) “Last Flag Flying” is not a literal continuation of “The Last Detail.” The names of the men and the details of their shared back story have been changed. A petty theft has been replaced by something grimmer and more specifically tied to Vietnam.
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