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Posted on 08/12/2005 12:06:29 PM PDT by goldstategop
I'm looking forward to seeing this film.
I was really looking forward to seeing this film as soon as it came out. Unfortunately, even though this is a conservative town, none of the movie theaters booked it. Maybe it'll show up here next week.
BTW, I only go to war movies if they get the weapons right. From what I saw in the previews, they did.
I hadn't even heard of this movie until I just read this. I never go to the movies but this one I definitely want to see. Thanks.
Bwhahahaha! Since your local critic seems to have some problems writing himself, I think I'll take his review with a grain of salt! :)
bttt
Listened to Michael Medved today..he loved this film and interviewed the director.
Medved stated this movie is being trashed by the usual suspect movie reviewers-he read some of the reviews
It is clear these MSM movie critics don't want us to see REAL atrocities ( the Japanese torturing Americans) and they don't want us to see the military as heroes.
We are going tomorrow.
Lets support this movie!!
Medved interviewed the director on his show this afternoon. It sounds like an AWESOME movie.
My dad is a WW2 Navy vet and his cousin survived the Bataan Death March.
The story has been told and retold in books, films, TV, etc. of the War in Europe in WWII. The War in the Pacific has not had the same treatment. Nazis are always the personification of evil while the stinking evil Japanese in WWII barely register most of the time.I just got back from seeing a sneak preview of "The Great Raid". Good movie. We need more like it to tell the stories of the heroes in the Pacific theater in WWII and remind us of why exactly it was right to nuke those bastards like we did.
I liked the movie alot. For the life of me I don't know why it was rated R. I have a theory that any movie that has guns and people smoking cigarettes automatically gets an R rating. The film is not as gripping as better films like Saving Private Ryan or the Band of Brothers series, but it is still a great war movie. I highly recommend it.
..He said it gave him a greater respect for the miliary and for these men and what they endured, and he hoped his acting did justice to them.
I was really impressed by his sincerity.
AND .. it will show WHAT REAL TORTURE IS - and therefore .. it will also show the public that panties on the head are not torture.
Wasn't that a great book?! I'm looking forward to the movie - tomorrow night maybe.
Pacing is perfect, switching between the nurse, the Rangers who are approaching the camp, and the brutality of the Japanese officers. Not a single wrong note or jarring sequence in the whole film.
It was an awesome book and I can't think of any good Hollyweird will do for those that lived it. Hollyweird will exploit them all the while they are stabbing the current military in the back.
CNN can kiss my lily-white sitting muscle.
I just saw the film tonight, and I loved it. It was good history--and good cinema.
Wow. I am in awe.
(Robert Prince lives in my area, or at least he did at the time I read "Ghost Soldiers".)
I saw the movie tonight. I read negative reviews all day, and then Medved came on and gave it four stars - so I knew it would be great (it was). I'm going to see it again Sunday. No PC revisionist stuff here.
Enjoy and be PROUD.
I saw it today, and recommend it. Great movie!
In fact, here is a pic of the guy so you will know of whom I am discussing:
Just saw this last night -- it's a solid, no-frills war film. I'm surprised it came out of Hollyweird.
I suppose that same reviewer had a problem with how the Nazis were portrayed in The Pianist.
Here's a related article about one of the soldiers that was on the raid:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1462559/posts
For years, veteran mum about historic raid
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