WHAT DID YOU think of Flags of Our Father?
Haven't seen it. Won't see it.
My great uncle was part of that invasion. I know all I need to about it.
After spending a year in Fallujah starting with the recapture of the town in 2004 I can't sit through some war movies anymore and maintain my composure.
I haven't and won't see Blackhawk Down for the same reasons. I understand exactly what went on because I had to write a case study right after it happened while I was an intel analyst. I don't need to see a dramatization of it.
Some of what I saw in The Departed got me wound up and I had bad dreams for a couple nights after, but not like a graphic war movie will get me upset.
Also, I don't think that my sensitivity to certain portrayals has any bearing on how good or bad a movie is.
There were what, 20,000 Japanese on that island? The movie showed three, I think.
The beginning was too long, failed to properly introduce the main characters, was confusing, and looked as though it was shot on a theater stage.
The Navy corpsman was the only one I ended up caring about, even though the Indian got the bulk of screen time.
The movie was The Unforgiven meets The Thin Red Line. Depressing.