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* CultClassic: Critical reappraisals in recent years (including The A.V. Club's Nathan Rabin, The Guardian U.K.'s Matt Mitchell and online reviewers) have claimed that the film was ahead of its time in some respects, particularly in the style it uses to showcase the InnocenceLost theme and its usage of different aspect ratios as a nod to past filmmaking techniques.
* DesignatedVillain: Major Creech is made out to be a buffoon of a commander who's barely holding his temper around Terry, both for causing his division to expend a large amount of resources on a superfluous Viet Cong "attack", and threatening his oversight of a visiting U.S. Congressman. This continues all the way to the end, where he unambiguously tells Terry he's going to keep him on "latrine duty" for the rest of his career, prompting Terry to [[FakingTheDead fake his own death to get out of the war]]. However, it's clear that Terry's shenanigans (which begin with him trying -- and failing -- to shoot himself in the shoulder to simulate a VC soldier's attack, and later have him referring to himself as a "coward" in front of Sinclair) are just the latest in a string of schemes cooked up to try and dodge active duty. The fact that Creech is [[DrowningMySorrows drinking]] during the otherwise-jubilant celebration after Sinclair and Terry are rescued (with the other soldiers ignoring Joe's death) suggests that he's barely holding things together.
* FanonDiscontinuity: Like [[Film/AmericanGraffiti the preceding film]], there are fans who disregard the ending postscript entirely, partly because one of the endings (Terry "missing in action" in Vietnam) [[{{Rewrite}} makes no sense anymore]] because his fate was changed to a FakingTheDead scenario, and partly for [[spoiler:stating that Milner died in a text crawl]], particularly after he'd won the dragrace circuit and made plans to [[ShipTease meet up with Eva at the Rose Bowl the next day]]. There are some fans who choose to believe that the latter character [[HesJustHiding either faked his death]] or that ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated.
* OneSceneWonder: Creator/HarrisonFord reprises his role as Bob Falfa in a single scene, revealing that he TookALevelInJerkass after becoming a motorcycle patrol cop in San Francisco.
* RetroactiveRecognition: The supporting cast is chockful of actors who would become bigger stars in later years, including Creator/DelroyLindo as a drill sergeant, Creator/RosannaArquette as one of the girls in the commune Debbie visits, Creator/ScottGlenn as Newt, James Houghton (''Series/KnotsLanding'') as Sinclair, musician Naomi Judd, and Jonathan Gries (''Film/NapoleonDynamite'') as Ron... not to mention [[Series/DoctorWho The Doctor himself]], Creator/TomBaker, in one of his earliest roles (as a random police officer)!
* {{Sequelitis}}: Given how the original film was a surprise blockbuster (making $140 million off a $777,000 budget), a sequel was inevitable, even though Creator/GeorgeLucas opted to serve as executive producer (and de facto director of the Vietnam sequences) rather than helm the director's chair again. The resulting project was lambasted at release for ultimately being superfluous to the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue the original film famously setup, in addition to some strange pacing and editing choices. ''More'' ultimately earned far less revenue, making somewhere between $8-15 million against a $3 million (USD) budget.
* VindicatedByHistory: The film received a critical reappraisal in recent years by fans and some critics (to the extent of being called a CultClassic) for its use of artistic flair, particularly in the usage of differing aspect ratios and a FourLinesAllWaiting plotline, with John and Terry's storylines receiving particular praise for the contrasting visual styles and closure to their fates.
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* DesignatedVillain: Major Creech is made out to be a buffoon of a commander who's barely holding his temper around Terry, both for causing his division to expend a large amount of resources on a superfluous Viet Cong "attack", and threatening his oversight of a visiting U.S. Congressman. This continues all the way to the end, where he unambiguously tells Terry he's going to keep him on "latrine duty" for the rest of his career, prompting Terry to [[FakingTheDead fake his own death to get out of the war]]. However, it's clear that Terry's shenanigans (which begin with him trying -- and failing -- to shoot himself in the shoulder to simulate a VC soldier's attack, and later have him referring to himself as a "coward" in front of Sinclair) are just the latest in a string of schemes cooked up to try and dodge active duty. The fact that Creech is [[DrowningMySorrows drinking]] during the otherwise-jubilant celebration after Sinclair and Terry are rescued (with the other soldiers ignoring Joe's death) suggests that he's barely holding things together.
* FanonDiscontinuity: Like [[Film/AmericanGraffiti the preceding film]], there are fans who disregard the ending postscript entirely, partly because one of the endings (Terry "missing in action" in Vietnam) [[{{Rewrite}} makes no sense anymore]] because his fate was changed to a FakingTheDead scenario, and partly for [[spoiler:stating that Milner died in a text crawl]], particularly after he'd won the dragrace circuit and made plans to [[ShipTease meet up with Eva at the Rose Bowl the next day]]. There are some fans who choose to believe that the latter character [[HesJustHiding either faked his death]] or that ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated.
* OneSceneWonder: Creator/HarrisonFord reprises his role as Bob Falfa in a single scene, revealing that he TookALevelInJerkass after becoming a motorcycle patrol cop in San Francisco.
* RetroactiveRecognition: The supporting cast is chockful of actors who would become bigger stars in later years, including Creator/DelroyLindo as a drill sergeant, Creator/RosannaArquette as one of the girls in the commune Debbie visits, Creator/ScottGlenn as Newt, James Houghton (''Series/KnotsLanding'') as Sinclair, musician Naomi Judd, and Jonathan Gries (''Film/NapoleonDynamite'') as Ron... not to mention [[Series/DoctorWho The Doctor himself]], Creator/TomBaker, in one of his earliest roles (as a random police officer)!
* {{Sequelitis}}: Given how the original film was a surprise blockbuster (making $140 million off a $777,000 budget), a sequel was inevitable, even though Creator/GeorgeLucas opted to serve as executive producer (and de facto director of the Vietnam sequences) rather than helm the director's chair again. The resulting project was lambasted at release for ultimately being superfluous to the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue the original film famously setup, in addition to some strange pacing and editing choices. ''More'' ultimately earned far less revenue, making somewhere between $8-15 million against a $3 million (USD) budget.
* VindicatedByHistory: The film received a critical reappraisal in recent years by fans and some critics (to the extent of being called a CultClassic) for its use of artistic flair, particularly in the usage of differing aspect ratios and a FourLinesAllWaiting plotline, with John and Terry's storylines receiving particular praise for the contrasting visual styles and closure to their fates.
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