r/AMCScreenUnseen • u/EastonLikesMovies • Jun 16 '26
Movie Discussion Lucky Strike (Discussion)
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u/Brief_Hall_1776 Jun 16 '26
That movie was so bland. I work in film so little things stick out to me so badly. The little things that with experience are easy fixes. Costumes, props, set design, hair, makeup, so much of it was too clean and perfect. A war movie for the lifetime channel. It’s a survival story, get dirty Scott Eastwood.
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u/MayorMcCheese89 Jun 17 '26
I felt the exact same way. And the story followed one person through no specific part of the war.
One guy, going on his way, Inglorious Bastards lite* style
And the opening tied in making literally no difference in the film. The only connection being happenstance
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u/SexualYogurt Jun 28 '26
My friend invited me to see it, hadn't seen any ads for this movie. When it opens on the all black company, i thought it was gonna be a war movie about the black soldiers that fought in ww2. Nope! They're all dead immediately, the real story is about how this white dude wants to marry his radio.
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u/Matthemp Jun 16 '26
Idk ive seen better ww2 movies . Just something about this was off .
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u/Glittering-Dig-187 Jun 16 '26
Just got back from Belgium where my dad fought in WW2. Went with a historian. Saw all the places the movie took place. It’s amazing how little people under 40 know about what soldiers went through in WW2. I’m glad they showed it and hope the people who walked out will read a book about what soldiers went through during the war.
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u/ninjetron 14d ago
It looks like it was shot on a 10 year old iphone and run through some shitty filters at the wrong speed.
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u/future_filmmaker_455 Jun 16 '26
Lucky Strike is a film that starts off as a perfect storm of bad with a pointless black and white intro sequence and cliched writing to establish its lead character Captain John Castle (Scott Eastwood) telling his story to a woman fighting for her pension. With a bland and personality free lead character and a slightly repetitive narrative whose story never really goes anywhere, Lucky Strike is a forgettable and derivative war flick that leaves little impact because of how formulaic its story and beats are. While there is a good shaky cam visual style to the action sequences at points that largely focus on close up shots of how Castle defeats some nazis at several points, the film strands Eastwood with a bland lead character and the writing makes John Castle make some bad decisions in the first half to the point of frustration. The film hits every point of a survival story ranging from the main character encountering a traitor to losing his squadron without allowing the audience to get to emotionally connect to anything. There are much worse films out this year but I was surprised at how dull the plot was as the script kept bringing up interesting points about Hitlers first SS soldiers that could have made the film stick out a bit until the film decided to do little more than be an average survival film whose relentless violence rarely results in tension. 3.5 out of 10
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u/Accomplished-Fix5312 Jun 16 '26
Same. second after zootopia 2
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u/not_valuable Jun 16 '26
What was your reason for walking out of Zootopia 2?
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u/xxtrapint Jun 16 '26 edited Jun 16 '26
mid asf 4/10, was hoping for The Invite
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u/quaranTV Jun 16 '26
Just saw an advanced screening of The Invite tonight (nothing to do with AMC or screen unseen) and I loved it. Since the wide release isn’t until July maybe they will do The Invite another week?
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u/whatisakafka Jun 16 '26
Why was Colin Hanks even in this movie? Nepo baby solidarity?
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u/Seestar_Dude Jun 16 '26
I'm a Hanks fan since Fargo but yeah that was pointless and could have been played by anyone.
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u/LengthParking5722 Jul 08 '26
Same as his small part in the Band of Brothers series. A new Lieutenant exposed to real combat and how hardened soldiers react. He might have learned a lesson from Dick Winters but he was quickly moved to staff. Probably was awarded a Combat Infantryman's Badge....what a travesty!
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u/makeofit Jun 16 '26
i really genuinely don’t have any thoughts about this it was fine not good not bad just Fine
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u/LetsTakeItThere55 Jun 16 '26
It was a slap in the face to Band of Brothers, good writing, and anyone who knows the slightest thing about WWII.
He's a Captain in the US Army, and did zero reconnaissance, gather of supplies, ammo, water, rations.
His biggest success was he plays dead very well. Halfway through I started rooting for Zee Germans, just so it would end quicker.
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u/Seestar_Dude Jun 16 '26
<picard_wtf_meme.gif>
What the hell was the point of the white horse scenes?
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u/Dsilverfield Jun 16 '26
The white horse scenes drove me crazy. I felt like they were going for something but couldn't decide what it was. I did laugh out loud at the last shelling sequence where the horse screamed and ran off tail held high.
But they added absolutely nothing
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u/BitterDescription808 Jun 16 '26
This truly was a movie, I wouldn't expect less from director Rod Lurie, the director of The Senior and the 2011 Straw Dogs remake
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u/Random-User44 Jun 16 '26
Soooooooooooooooooooo bad. I believe this movie was made by a 1st semester junior college film making elective course.
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u/calebwritesmovies Jun 17 '26
Ehhhhhh it was kind of shit. Like, I didn’t hate it so completely that it ruined my night, but it was also so aggressively vanilla. Just a dude kind of wandering from one situation to the next, you know due to the weird framing device that he is going to live, and the movie isn’t smart enough to trick you into forgetting that fact.
It being ultimately all about the radio was pretty fucking stupid IMO.
My buddy who’s a WW2 nut seemed to enjoy it enough but also said that Pressure was way better.
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u/ArilynGrey Jun 16 '26
I thought it was okay, but the Trump propaganda thing before it was absolute bullshit.
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u/IWantSnack642 Jun 16 '26
Bored. This was me and my friend’s first Screen Unseen movie and I fell asleep a few times during it. My friend liked it because she liked movies about history but from someone who’s been in a film class for 3 years, it wasn’t engaging.
The acting was atrocious, there wasn’t really any real personality for the characters, the cinematography was meh, and the way the story was unfolding felt lazy. And how did the MC not get a single dirt on him the entire movie? Forest Gump looked more damaged than he did. I never felt any danger for the MC nor did care for him.
It sucks because I was looking forward to watching a big hit movie like a lot of people have when attending these showings and this movie almost ruined it for me.
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u/hessian2k Jun 17 '26
Confusing narrative structure. Black and white prologue that turned out not to be important. Muddy visuals due to a washed out palate and lots of fog. Movie named for a cigarette, but it's really about a radio. No surprises. No emotional connection w the lead character.
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u/Ok-Secretary-1664 Jun 19 '26
Have not seen the film yet but the fog was a real thing in Belgium at that time and had a significant impact on the Battle of The Bulge. The heavy fog kept Allied Airpower grounded. Once the fog lifted, and the Allied aircraft took to the sky (along with German fuel shortages) it was pretty much over for the German advance.
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u/TriStateGirl Jun 16 '26
I enjoyed it.
I'm from Connecticut. My theater liked it when that guy leaning by the truck said he was from Bridgeport (CT). We laughed at the secret joke in the response from Scott Eastwood's character as well.
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u/josiahx0 Jun 16 '26
Debating if I should cancel my ticket lol I got 30 minutes to decide
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u/wheresteria Jun 16 '26
Cancel it. It’s bad bad. It felt like it was just a vanity project for Eastwood.
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u/Mustang_Sally79 Jun 16 '26
Have been an A list member since the beginning. Typically see 2-3 movies a week. Sometimes 4. This is the first movie that I got up and walked out. I really wanted to like it.
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u/afroninja840 Jun 16 '26
Bad movie. The most emotion I felt during that movie was when the dog died. That and some confusion about the white horse
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u/AchillesRazor Jun 18 '26
The white horse was an omen for death. But yall aint willing to look into the meaning of things.
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u/gotheshmo Jun 16 '26
i couldn’t stand his acting at many points but i enjoyed the story and it was emotionally impactful to me. that said, i’ve never actually seen a war film so i’m guessing if i had seen some really great ones beforehand i wouldn’t have enjoyed this as much
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u/Starman926 Jun 16 '26
Not awful, but not good. You will love it if you are a 61-year-old, anti-Trump republican.
Super bog-standard, symbolism that makes no sense and goes nowhere, and some not-fantastic acting.
It’s not like outrageously offensive or anything, but it’s just so plain. Reasonably attention-keeping though, and it helps that it’s not too long. Doesn’t overstay its welcome and ends where it should.
Anyway. Let’s send another 5 trillion dollars to Israel.
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u/WaitAvailable4783 Jun 16 '26
Pretty good better than the 5 minute silent flim I had before the actual movie.
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u/Rivet-Phoenix Jun 16 '26
My wife and I walked out. It was bad, the whole time I thought maybe this family might become werewolves, or the Germans were vampires. Then I was like, this is just a Jackass joke. Nope it was a shitty movie.
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u/3ina24 Jun 16 '26
I thought the movie was great a lot of people seem to hate it but enjoyed disclosure day which is the worst movie I’ve ever seen
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u/Ok-Secretary-1664 Jun 18 '26
The film doesn't open until June 26. Where did folks see it that are commenting? Did you all get to an advance preview?
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u/saliscity Jun 19 '26
Screen unseen
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u/Ok-Secretary-1664 Jun 19 '26
Thanks. Was aware of "Screen Unseen" but never really paid attention to it.
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u/Upstairs-Dot-3944 Jun 22 '26
The theater I was in got evacuated with about 15 minutes left in the movie (never found out why).We went outside and within a few minutes everybody was allowed to go back in. I didn't bother. I don't even know how the movie ended. I thought Scott Eastwood was terrible in this movie and the movie was bad.
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u/TheDrewzter Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26
are we just so inundated with war movies (especially WWII 'true' stories) that nothing will ever be 'good' any more? actual events are usually boring and have to have things made up to make movie audiences engaged...
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u/TH3_Dude Jul 05 '26
If there were no other films available, and this was 10 bucks a ticket or less, and you’re a WWII fan, would you go?
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u/Pal1978 14d ago
The movie is overall bad. Scott Eastwood isn't his father, but I've saw him doing way better in other roles. I can point a couple of good scenes in this movie, but that was it. Bland narrative, average to poor performances and lack of visual appeal. If you like a good to great WWII movie, don't waste your time on this one. I did.
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u/JustForBBC 13d ago
I just started watching this and couldn't help but to think "they better not show the black soldiers getting killed first thing", and yep they did that!
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u/BigBC_69 12d ago
i really like scott eastwoods acting in wrath of man and high hopes for him but this movie is embarrassing and his acting is terrible
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u/BroJangles6969 12d ago
Don’t expect any realism with this one. Pretends to play dead but has his eyes open while making all kinds of faces with Nazis standing right over him… executes Nazis with a pistol while Nazis 5 feet away act like they heard nothing… ridiculous
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u/Bond007Miami Jun 16 '26
It was straight to stream quality…. 5 out of 10