Trailer:
Hacksaw Ridge (2016 - Movie) Official Trailer – “Believe”
“HACKSAW RIDGE is the extraordinary true story of Desmond Doss [Andrew Garfield] who, in Okinawa during the bloodiest battle of WWII, saved 75 men without firing or carrying a gun. He was the only American soldier in WWII to fight on the front lines without a weapon, as he believed that while the war was justified, killing was nevertheless wrong. As an army medic, he single-handedly evacuated the wounded from behind enemy lines, braved fire while tending to soldiers and was wounded by a grenade and hit by snipers. Doss was the first conscientious objector awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.”
Gibson is only at issue because he is not a hollywierd liberal and they hate him. Liberals are full of hate.
Scandals that engulfed him? Mel got drunk, got pulled over and said things he shouldn't have to a cop. Seems fairly tame by Hollywood standards.
Battlefield witnesses say he saved 100 men on the ridge. Mr. Doss said it was
“only” 50. His MOH Commendation split the difference at 75.
In another context, Corporal Archie Miller of Portsmouth, Ohio was finally ordered home when he received his 5th Purple Heart in 1945. While actually in battle, under enemy fire, and fighting aggressively unlike John Kerry, Miller was wounded 2 times by sniper fire, 2 times by mortar fire, and was last wounded by a Japanese hand grenade.
His wife said he was too tough to die.
(08/03/45)
Just reading the story of the amazing feats of physical
strength time after time after time that Doss displayed
was almost unbelievable. His story is just spectacular.
He was a very unassuming man with great faith in the Lord.
Clearky it’s too much to expect in this day and age, and from Hollywood, no less, that there might be a film celebrating the life of one of the tens of thousands of courageous fighting men (most little older than boys) whose story remains untold and who gave up his life fighting those who would enslave us - without a lot of ‘pacifist’ rhetoric.
The American public can’t be allowed to consider for even a moment that those who died or suffered horrific wounds facing and killing Japanese troops while laying their own lives on the line for us... we can’t be allowed to think it was right or just or... God forbid... heroic.
Desmond Doss may be heroic.....
......but the last visual I had of Andrew Garfield was a photo of him standing in front of a mirror in a tutu and makeup.
I can’t reconcile paying real money to watch some dude conflicted by his sexual tendency playing a real life hero.
Just saying
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The three best war movies of all time are all owned by Mel Gibson. There is too much Jewish influence in Hollywood. Mel buried the Hollywood competition. His Christ movie earned 10 times their feeble effort. And there will be a Part II.
Too many Christian movies are a Jewish view of a Christian movie. Sigh. Mel comes along and cleans their clocks. All they got is name calling, racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe.
LOL