"The Great Raid" - Debbie Schlussel Calls It The Year's Great Movie (MUST SEE!!!)

Debbie Schlussel.com ^ | 08/12/05 | Debbie Schlussel

[goldstategop]

See this movie. Debbie Schlussel calls it The Year's GREAT movie. It will make you feel proud to be an American and give one an appreciation of the sacrifices our servicemen and women make in any era to keep us safe and free.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[blackie]

Thanks for posting the review!

[DrDeb]

Hubby and I plan to see it tonight . . . THANKS for posting this review!!

[dakine]

ping...

[beaversmom]

I was wondering about this movie last night when I first heard about it. Found this line from a review:

The script is not a bit afraid of offending Hollywood's largest overseas film market by portraying Japan's WWII soldiers as homicidal brutes. This is refreshing at first, but after a dozen or so atrocities you begin to feel you've wandered into an old propaganda film.

Yes, we all know how nice the Japanese were in WWII. I'm guessing Medved will do a review today. I'll wait to see what he says.

[American Quilter]

I can't wait to see it. I'm so glad to hear there's a pro-American war movie out. Michael Fumento has just written a dispiriting column on all of the anti-American war movies coming out of Hollywood soon. I'll certainly avoid them.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GuestColumns/Fumento20050811.shtml

[Owl558]

My mother's uncle survived Bataan. I will see this movie.

[Moose4]

I was cruising CNN.com, and their Entertainment Weekly reviews panned it and gave it a D+...while giving an A- to a documentary about some idiot who lived with grizzly bears and then got eaten by one. Therefore, this must mean that The Great Raid is an awesome movie, due to the low grade EW gave it.

By way of comparison, Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo got a C+.

}:-)4

[jpl]

If Debbie Schlussel approves of it, I know it's a must-see! I predict it'll end up as a big hit.

[dennisw]

I'll be seeing this. First time in a movie theater this year.

[Pyro7480]

Overall, the critics don't like this movie. I wonder why. (sarcasm)

[NathanBookman]

"If you love America, "The Great Raid" is the movie for you."

Well, they just lost the looney lib audience.

[Skooz]

On my "Buy It As Soon As It Is Released On DVD" list.

It looks great.

[dennisw]

  "A sincere but less than inspiring war-time drama."
-- John Wirt, ADVOCATE (BATON ROUGE, LA)

  "Absorbs historical detail and shapes it with compelling tension while occasionally choking over its own self-importance."
-- Phil Villarreal, ARIZONA DAILY STAR

  "Painfully slow and earnest, more like a museum exhibit than a motion picture."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION

  "Dahl makes something wonderfully curious of this historical material: an old-fashioned war picture, with no sadder-but-wiser deconstruction, no 'updated' salty language and no strained metaphors for later, more controversial conflicts."
-- Steve Schneider, ORLANDO WEEKLY

  "The film is as black and white as any given State of the Union Address delivered by President George W. Bush."
-- Alex Sandell, JUICY CEREBELLUM

  "Why don't they make more movies like this? ... literally takes your breath away ... it's easily one of the best movies of the year."
-- Steve Rhodes, INTERNET REVIEWS

[goldstategop]

One guess: the liberal critics loathe our military and don't like ANY film that portrays it - and Christianity - in a positive light.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[Clemenza]

Sorry, I'm kind of sick of WWII movies. We need more revolutionary war films (as long as they are nothing like "Revolution" with Al Pacino).

[SuziQ]

I was just fixing to look up the times for this movie tonight. We want to take our four kids to see it!

[goldstategop]

The Cindy Sheehan-Medea Benjamin crowd you mean? Bah - good riddance!

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[jimfree]

Thanks for posting this. I guess I'll have to help build the gross revenue on this one. I'll buy full-price tix.

[Christian4Bush]

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