Posted on 11/14/2016 4:52:35 AM PST by Brad from Tennessee
Bingo!
Band of Brothers and The Pacific.
None better than these two.
I saw SPR at a matinee showing in Nashville when it came out. I was by myself as my wife and I were in town for one of her work training sessions and I had an afternoon with nothing to do and when the film ended there was just complete silence in the theater other than quiet sobs and it was WWII and Korean war era vets being consoled by their wives. Very moving.
Looking forward to seeing it. Didn’t care much for Gibson as a leading man type but he caught my attention with Braveheart and The Patriot. Still can’t watch those without the screen getting blurry. The Passion of the Christ breaks me down in the good way when watching. I’ve only seen Apocolyto once, a son-in-law rented it for me and it also brought out a passionate response for freedom. Mel Gibson obviuosly has a deep love and understanding of liberty despite getting in deep water as I recall with vulgar anti semitic comments while drunk driving. He’s also shown a love of history in those film choices that I admire.
We had a CO Medic like that in out unit, unlike the rest, who changed his mind during TET in the Saigon area.
He got a close look up of what the gooks did to Civilians and did a 180.
It does show that there were people who could have qualified for CO status but "seen their duty and done it".
Such people deserve to be lauded for their service because they had an out and did not take it.
Do I agree with their stance? No.
Irrelevant currently.
They did what they could in every way that they felt they could.
Mel Gibson’s dad Hutton moved the family from America to Australia to keep his eldest son from being drafted for Vietnam. So there may be an anti war streak in Mel courtesy of his dad’s influence. But Hutton was no conscientious objector, he had been a First Lt during WWII, wounded at Guadalcanal.
It is my understanding that the Seventh Day Adventists were COs but still volunteered to be medics and corpsmen, so Good On Them for that.
Brother-in-law saw Saving Private Ryan and said the only flaw was that there was not enough smoke at Omaha.
played a big role in winning World War II by enduring relentless punishment on and off the battlefield
That statement makes no sense. Did he break anything or kill anyone (that's how wars are won). Did he tour the USA as a Medal of Honor hero to raise war bonds? Doubtful, it was 1945. And it isn't a stretch to note that praising someone labeled as a CO (whether accurate or not) isn't exactly the best way to raise a fighting army, in the big scheme of thngs, even though he was a genuine hero.
turned pacifist after a near-tragic childhood accident incurred in a childhood scuffle with his older brother. So convinced that taking another man’s life was the most egregious sin in the Ten Commandments
or this:
refusing to compromise his religious principles that forbid him to bear arms.
Rex Reed is either ridiculing Doss' beliefs, or ridiculing the Ten Commandments. I don't know which -- was PFC Doss afraid of guns, traumatized by the childhood incident (as Reed says), or was he just following his religion (as Reed says -- and if so, how did the childhood incident, that I presume involved a weapon, happen? It's not clear.) Of course the Bible definitely is not pacifistic. The Macabees were the most heroic of the faithful. Come to think of it, I would love it if Mel Gibson would make a movie about them.
Rex Reed has no problem with broad generalities like "hayseed hick" but imagine if Doss were black, from the Mississippi delta -- would he have used pejoratives? NO, because that would be politically incorrect -- I'm not advocating political correctness, I'm pointing out that PC doesn't apply to "uneducated hayseed hick whites", as we just experienced (again) from Left-wing post-election analysis.
I agree, I can’t stand Reed.
I think you should watch the movie and read up on the life of Desmond Doss before you offer such a scathing review.
He spent 6 years in military hospitals after the war, losing a lung to TB and had a 100% disability. He crawled off his litter when he was being carried off the battlefield to give care to someone more severely injured. The movie doesn’t do justice to the real story.
Not the movie I was criticizing. Read it again, I was lambasting Rex Reed.
Saw the movie today and read about Desmond Doss on the net. The movie is just a snippet of what his man did.
Amazing man.
I saw this yesterday.
4 stars, honestly, instant classic.
If the academy doesn’t give Gibson the Oscar, eff them.
thanks for the links, interesting.
However, my main grip about Hacksaw Ridge is the casting of Andrew Garfield. I can not stand him. Plus, in the trailer to the film, while it may be gospel and true that the real Desmond Doss would 'not even touch a gun' for any reason, I just find that wholly unbelievable on the face of it--
Many medics and corpsmen were conscientious objectors but they carried pistols just in case in both the European and Pacific Theaters. Especially in the Pacific as the Japanese did not play by any of the Geneva Accord rules at all.
When it comes to Netflix in 6 to 8 mpnths, I will probably watch the DVD but I won't be seeing it in the theater.
I’ve heard it was amazing.
I’ll see it eventually. Always liked Mel.
Just came from seeing it. Just go it is an outstanding film and the story is even better. Everything a great film should be.
‘It’ll have to be really good to be better than Fury.’
I agree. Fury is awsome, but I’ve never seen Hacksaw Ridge yet.
Since it’s getting good reviews, I want to buy Hacksaw just to tick off the leftists.
And frankly, I smelled a rat back during Gibsons ‘creepy phone’ scandal. I bet she egged him on. Actors role-play all the time.
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