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Letters From Iwo Jima' named best film of 2006 (Let me guess, another hate America film)
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| Thursday, December 7, 2006
| THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Posted on 12/07/2006 12:48:25 PM PST by against_kerry
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I am guessing that this film will depict the true story of the inhumane way the Japanese killed our soldiers.
To: against_kerry
Hollywood REALLY needs to get over itself.
To: against_kerry
Not to mention the Rape of Nan King, wholesale slaughter of Chinese, Koreans, and the scores of Filipino girls 14-16 yrs old forced into service at the Jap Pleasure Camps to the turn of 40-60 men per day.
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posted on
12/07/2006 12:51:55 PM PST
by
RSmithOpt
(Liberalism: Highway to Hell)
To: against_kerry
No, probably more like how our troops illegally invaded IJ and killed those poor, defenseless Japanese farmers who were peacefully working in their fields.
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posted on
12/07/2006 12:52:10 PM PST
by
RetiredArmy
(I don't march to other people's opinion of me or my beliefs. I march to my beliefs and heart.)
To: against_kerry
More of Hollywood's sympathy for the Devil, apparently.
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posted on
12/07/2006 12:52:50 PM PST
by
unspun
(What do you think? Please think, before you answer.)
To: against_kerry
Eastwood has had this in the works for a while as a counterpart to his earlier film from the American point of view. It's been done before with Tora Tora Tora. I sincerely doubt anything produced by spielberg about WW2 would be a Hate America film.
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posted on
12/07/2006 12:54:44 PM PST
by
Borges
To: The Blitherer
National Board of Review is the media not Hollywood.
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posted on
12/07/2006 12:55:22 PM PST
by
Borges
To: against_kerry
The dumbest statement in the article:
I think it's also a searing condemnation of war.
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posted on
12/07/2006 12:58:29 PM PST
by
Sans-Culotte
("Thanks, Tom DeLay, for practically giving me your seat"-Nick Lampson)
To: Borges
I sincerely doubt anything produced by spielberg about WW2 would be a Hate America film.
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Good point.
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posted on
12/07/2006 12:59:05 PM PST
by
EagleUSA
To: against_kerry
I think you guys are charging off half cocked.
Clint isn't into revisionism. This is the other side of an epic battle. He tells the first side in Flags of Our Fathers.
As a student of the war in the Pacific, I will really want to see this.
Japanese soldiers were ruthless. But that had more to do with how they got into the trenches in the first place. Not excusing their barbarity, but their society was still feudal thinking and barbarity in warfare was just another day at the beach for them. That notwithstanding, knowing what they were thinking is fascinating. From a historians point of view, I hope he is the same old Clint from yesteryear and just lets the pieces fall.
I've heard that he does just that and it isn't anti American at all.
We'll see.
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posted on
12/07/2006 12:59:34 PM PST
by
Al Gator
(Refusing to "stoop to your enemy's level", gets you cut off at the knees.)
To: against_kerry
"I was blown away by its delicacy, the poignancy of how he talks about war. I think it's also a searing condemnation of war. It was a unique view of the Japanese side of the battle. We don't always see that." So what's new? A lot of great war movies have scenes/speeches that condemn war, war-weary soldiers griping about war, grieving soldiers, traumatized soldiers: Guns of Navarone, Patton, We Were Soldiers, Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers, etc. to name a few.
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posted on
12/07/2006 1:02:50 PM PST
by
DTogo
(I haven't left the GOP, the GOP left me.)
To: Al Gator
We shall see about this film, I wonder why Flags of our Fathers recieved no mention of an award, but this film did? Could it be a politcal statement? Why of course it is!
To: against_kerry
I heard it wasn't very good. At least from the Freepers who saw it.
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posted on
12/07/2006 1:06:21 PM PST
by
Borges
To: DTogo
Yeah, I'm trying to think of that war movie where everyone is running around just LOVING the war. For some reason I'm drawing a blank. :)
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posted on
12/07/2006 1:09:26 PM PST
by
L98Fiero
(The media is a self-licking ice-cream cone)
To: Borges
Sounds like the Pacific version of "Das Boot."
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posted on
12/07/2006 1:11:28 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: dfwgator
Watching 'Das Boot' it's hard to remember to root against the Germans. Same with reading 'All Quiet on the Western Front'.
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posted on
12/07/2006 1:13:39 PM PST
by
Borges
To: against_kerry
Yeah, I bet the film really captures the way that the Japanese Army behaved during the war...
...or maybe not!
To: Borges
Watching 'Das Boot' it's hard to remember to root against the Germans. Same with reading 'All Quiet on the Western Front'. Get "Stalingrad", it is by the same production company that did "Das Boot". Same treatment of the subject matter, only w/o the "happy" ending.
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posted on
12/07/2006 1:18:53 PM PST
by
Turbo Pig
(...to close with and destroy the enemy...)
To: Borges
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posted on
12/07/2006 1:21:50 PM PST
by
Uriah_lost
(We've got enough youth, how about a "fountain of smart")
To: against_kerry
Supposedly, Eastwood said this about the movie: What's human sacrifice if not sending guys off to Apocalypto for no reason?
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posted on
12/07/2006 1:22:58 PM PST
by
macamadamia
("First thing we do, kill all the journalists." Joe Shakespeare)
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