i have read all the comment prior to post this and so now what i be say will sound a lot more different than everyone else . i think that in the company of men ( icm ) be a great movie . everyone give their reason and but i think people do not pinpoint it . i will try to do just so . first and it be a movie about men . not that the movie would have be any different if the lead ( howard and chad ) be play by female . the point be that the movie would have be much more complex and probably too difficult to comprehend if not for flat female . basically and there be only three female in the movie and even though christine ( deaf girl ) occupy quite a lot of screen time and she be just a filler . second and the movie be anti political correctness in the most intelligent way . nobody get kill and there be no unnecessary profanity but it pack a punch to pc and to the whole hollywood machine of produce happy movie . the movie say thing that we all already know represent sometimes the bad people get everything . with the sense of escapism surround most american movie and this be a refreshing movie that actually play by the rule of hollywood . it make people feel bad because they get use to feel good . this duality of screen and real life become so much the part of our life that we be shock when we be show the life a it be . third and the camera work and editing and music and dialogue and etc . be not that great . you do not see great effect and there be no edge in edit and the movie have a sleazy tv soap opera feel to it . nothing more . and this be the whole point of the movie . the surrounding and the people and anonymous bar . we unconsciously associate with all that . there be nothing to prevent u from do so . gummo and kid and tetsuo . even blade and they be all non pc and but their plot leave an element of escapism and the situation seem unreal or at least too far away to worry . but icm scrap all the escapism in order for you and the viewer and to finally engage into the movie that actually make you feel bad . this and i think be the great achievement of icm .