I watched that movie with my Grandfather. He saw it (his words) “on its first run, in Technicolor”.
Afterwards, I asked him what he thought. He said that “it was a fine movie, but no one looked cold enough”.
Changed the way I watch war movies forever. Now I judge them on how cold or hot, dirty, hungry, exhausted, tired and generally miserable the actors look.
Changed the way I watch war movies forever. Now I judge them on how cold or hot, dirty, hungry, exhausted, tired and generally miserable the actors look.
Yeah, Hollywood usually shies away from gritty detail, that's what made the Normandy beach scenes in Saving Private Ryan so noteworthy - they actually tried to show it without the candy coating. I've seen foreign films that do a consistently better job - good examples being Talvisota (The Winter War, 1989) and Stalingrad (1993).
Then “Pacific” - the miniseries - really meets your criteria. Don’t know how our guys endured the rain, mud, heat, crappy food etc. and still accomplished anything.
Half the time I couldn’t tell our guys from their guys - just appalling conditions.