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"Flags of our Fathers" mini-review
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| 10/20/06
| LS
Posted on 10/20/2006 7:04:56 PM PDT by LS
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BTW, they showed the trailer for a Christmas movie called "The Nativity Story" and it looked absolutely fantastic.
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posted on
10/20/2006 7:04:57 PM PDT
by
LS
To: LS
Good review. Thanks for your insights and opinions.
I am looking forward to seeing this movie.
BUMP for great freeping.
To: LS
LS, there is a truth about war and the US Army. Many men sign up for the military for many different reasons. But in battle, most, ultimately, fight for each other. That is what they are trained to do.
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posted on
10/20/2006 7:10:58 PM PDT
by
bnelson44
(Proud parent of a tanker! (Charlie Mike, son))
To: LS
I look forward to seeing this movie. I've already read the book.
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posted on
10/20/2006 7:12:19 PM PDT
by
BigSkyFreeper
(Karl Rove you magnificent bastard!)
To: LS
Sounds like another disappointing effort to deconstruct the patriotism of WWII.
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posted on
10/20/2006 7:15:39 PM PDT
by
Petronski
(CNN is an insidiously treasonous, enemy propaganda organ.)
To: LS
Eastwood drives home the difficulty of bearing the label "hero," especially when one hasn't done anything particularly outstanding, except for surviving.Yet for some, they grasp the label with both hands - and they keep the hat.
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posted on
10/20/2006 7:21:44 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(Prayers for our patriot brother, 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub. Brian, we're all pulling for you!)
To: LS
Joel Seagal is a long time local film/movie critic here in NY city for local news....typical liberal/gay from what I can tell...
He gave a review and I readied myself....his review was so emotional I could not contain myself....
After saying the movie was absolutely glorious and that while you watch it you don't think you are watching history rather you are a part of history he went on to thank Clint Eastwood for making this movie and reminding us of the heroism at Iwo...
He ended with something I will never forget- "the reason we are here today is because they went there"...
I thought the two news women next to him were about to bust out in tears...
Fantastic interview I did not expect!!!!
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posted on
10/20/2006 7:22:45 PM PDT
by
God luvs America
(When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
To: LS
I just got back from seeing it and concur with this review.
One thing that really impressed me was the batch of other contemporaneous photos that ran along with the credits at the end. Some moving images - and most of the audience stayed to see them. The final part - after the credits had rolled - was of the dozens of dog tags strung from the memorial that is now in place at the hilltop.
Also, a lot of the film was shot on location on Iwo Jima, which added to the realism.
To: LS
The main plot line is that the nation was broke, and would have to sue for peace with the Japanese
Huh?
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posted on
10/20/2006 7:30:14 PM PDT
by
PeterPrinciple
(Seeking the Truth here Folks.)
To: PeterPrinciple; LS
The main plot line is that the nation was broke, and would have to sue for peace with the Japanese More like "WTF?"
Or this:
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posted on
10/20/2006 7:33:52 PM PDT
by
Petronski
(CNN is an insidiously treasonous, enemy propaganda organ.)
To: BillyBonebrake
I believe the film was shot in Iceland, according to the review I saw....completely serious
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posted on
10/20/2006 7:35:06 PM PDT
by
God luvs America
(When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
To: bnelson44
My husband was in Vietnam, a decorated hero there at a young age, and he says you do learn to depend on each other and fight for each other, the big-picture eventually can get lost in the day-to-day fight for survival.
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posted on
10/20/2006 7:35:39 PM PDT
by
BonnieJ
To: PeterPrinciple
The main plot line is that the nation was broke, and would have to sue for peace with the Japanese. I've read a lot of military hiostory and I've NEVER come across that BS.
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posted on
10/20/2006 7:35:42 PM PDT
by
Doctor Raoul
(New York Times? Get a rope!)
To: Doctor Raoul
I've read a lot of military history and I've NEVER come across that BS.That's because, of course, it ain't so.
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posted on
10/20/2006 7:36:20 PM PDT
by
Petronski
(CNN is an insidiously treasonous, enemy propaganda organ.)
To: Lancey Howard
Forget the movie, it has little to do with the book.
Read the book, it has everything to do with a man's love for his father, who was one of the men who raised the flag, and who was a modest war hero who never told his family about the Navy Cross he received for bravery.
The book also deals with the non-bleeding wounds that some men suffer in battle that can't be treated but eventually kills, and of shirt-tailed kids who went away to war and became men.
The book's plot is not about the depression that started in 1929 or about Roosevelt. The story is built around how tough the battle of Iwo Jima really was. 6000 marines were killed in a two-month long battle securing this two-mile speck of black sulphur in the Pacific.
In a cemetery on Iwo Jima lies the 6000 Marines. At the entrance some unknown buddy carved a tribute to them on a nearby rock, it reads,
"When you go home
Tell them for us and say,
For your tomorrow,
We gave our today."
Cindy Sheehan, call your office.
To: LS
The final lines of the movie repeat the refrain from "Black Hawk Down," "Saving Private Ryan," and other recent war movies: Ultimately, they fought for each other, not for a cause or a country. That is a Hollywood deconstruct. Piss on Eastwood, I've changed my mind about going to this movie.
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posted on
10/20/2006 7:37:21 PM PDT
by
Doctor Raoul
(New York Times? Get a rope!)
To: Doctor Raoul
As a graduate student focusing on WWII, I can say I've never heard that either.
That part of the movie doesn't pass the smell test.
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posted on
10/20/2006 7:38:18 PM PDT
by
COEXERJ145
(Free Republic is Currently Suffering a Pandemic of “Bush Derangement Syndrome.”)
To: LS
Thanks. Aiming to see that Nativity movie. Also Flyboys.
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posted on
10/20/2006 7:38:58 PM PDT
by
unspun
(What do you think? Please think, before you answer.)
To: LS
I went to the first showing here in E-Town, and I think that nearly every person in the theater was either a current or retired Marine. I've never seen that many red Marine jackets in one place in my life.
There were two old men sitting beside me who were wearing these jackets. During the scene where the squad is getting ready to go for a swim, one of them looked over at his friend and commented that they didn't have white boxers, they had green. I don't know if this meant that he was there on Iwo Jima, but he was likely somewhere in the Pacific during the war.
To: Doctor Raoul
I'm in agreement with you. No mention of even thinking of suing for peace. While the Marines were clearing the island, which the Japanese spent decades fortifying, the U.S. was preparing for a full thrust in the Pacific, once Germany was defeated, bolstered by the progress with the A Bomb. Iwo Jima, still under arguments, was required to gain a base from which to strike Japan and to give disabled planes a place to land. The thought of inserting the issue of suing for peace seems to me to be nothing more than a Hollywood stunt.
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posted on
10/20/2006 7:47:49 PM PDT
by
Seniram US
(Quote of the Day: Smile You're An American)
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