Flags of our Fathers wasn't very good is why it bombed. If the movie would have focused on the actual battle for Iwo Jima instead of the guys who toured the nation it would have done better. The movie was good when they flashed back to the guys taking Iwo but it became boring and preachy when it was about the 3 guys.
But the book was about those guys and thus the movie as well.
thanks for your review... I was thinking about going to see it but am ambivalent. Saving Private Ryan had about the most realistic combat sequence (except the smell and body thumping of artillery) and was an action/moral story.
Guys like to see war films in order to fantasize that maybe they'd be brave enough to partake in the action or to see what "war" is like.
Most that have been in combat know that depending on your training and mindset, no movie can realistically show what it feels like to lose your friend or kill somebody.... or the sheer joy and happiness of being alive..... and then poof, time passes and it's over like a dream.
Absolutely agree.