G.I. Jane | 100 Movies Bucket List

I hadn't heard much about this film before the infamous Will Smith/Chris Rock Oscars incident, but that alone did make me curious about it, so I was interested when I saw it on the bucket list. I've said this before but war settings aren't my favourite, so I was a bit apprehensive going into this. However, I knew that a large focus of the film would be on the character of Jordan trying to make it in a male-dominated industry, and that's a really interesting concept. It gets into the action really quickly, which was great. We get to know the characters as the events progress, which works in a film like this because it's shot in a way that makes us feel like we're experiencing this bootcamp alongside them. But in saying that, even though it moved quickly, it took a long time for the film to really grab me. The bootcamp scenes that make up the first 40 or so minutes weren't particularly interesting to me. I understand their necessity in terms of us getting to...