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

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

[Snoopers-868th]

Screw Hollyweird. Read the book about it--Ghost Soldiers!

[goldstategop]

http://www.miramax.com/the_great_raid/

[Big Red Clay]

I just checked the listings so I could try and see this movie sometime over the weekend. I have been looking forward to seeing it since the previews started a few weeks ago. Unfortunately, it is not showing on any screen in Omaha this weekend. No problem finding a showing of that wonderful film about the rapping pimp (Hustle and Flow). No movie for you-conservative boy!!

[BlueAngel]

My husband and I plan on going this Sunday. Thank you for the post!

[Peach]

I can't wait to see this movie. We haven't been to the movie theater in two years this month, but we're going to see this, although I know watching the treatment of our soldiers will infuriate me, especially when I compare how we treat the jihadists at Gitmo.

[Enterprise]

Gonna see it today at 1615 at the Edwards Theatre in Fresno.

[narby]

My step-dad was one of the 121 soldiers on this raid. I'll be seeing this ASAP.

[uncbob]

History Channel carried the Documentary on it earlier this week including news reel and inteviews with some of the veterans

[michaelbfree]

My uncle was in a Japanese concentration camp - he was a big man, about 190, and came out after the war weighing 100 pounds...I will definitely see this movie

[Paul Ross]

Bump!!!

[WhiteGuy]

Point of order!

Debbie Schlussel threads should be given the same treatment as Michelle Malkin Threads...............

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Just wondering what the rating is...

[Zathras]

Americans tortured?
I don't think I can handle Americans with panties on their heads.

Seriously, it sounds like a wonderful film.

[muleskinner]

I heard from one of the local film critics,"...pretty slow, etc. finale is O.K. Poor writting and direction. Could have been much better. Too bad."

[Strategerist]

Ebert and Roper both gave it two thumbs up.

[beaversmom]

Medved is talking with the director, John Dahl, right now. Medved said it's the best war movie since Saving Private Ryan. Sounds like he liked it to say the least.

[narby]

Didn't see that. Unfortunately my step-dad died about 10 years ago, and he never was interviewed by anyone on this.

What he told me about the raid was that the Filipinos had hidden (buried) alcohol of various flavors, and as they rode past in the trucks they would hand them up bottles. He said they got drunk while he manned a machine gun up on the top of the truck.

He said the skinny prisoners were pretty gruesome as they passed them from man to man and loaded them into the trucks "like cords of wood".

[Kokojmudd]

My Stepfather spent 2 years in a Japansese prison camp. It is a miracle he survived.

[beaversmom]

Medved just finished speaking with the director. He will review the movie in the last hour of his show but he already said he gave it four stars. He said you will write to him thanking him for recommending it. He said the panning of the movie is all political just as we had figured. Can't have Americand looking like the good guys and the enemy looking like the bad guys.

[wordsofearnest]

I intend to reread it, then watch the movie.