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Letters From Iwo Jima' named best film of 2006 (Let me guess, another hate America film)
AP ^ | Thursday, December 7, 2006 | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Posted on 12/07/2006 12:48:25 PM PST by against_kerry

NEW YORK -- "Letters From Iwo Jima," the second of Clint Eastwood's two-part look at World War II, is the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures' pick as the best film of 2006.

Also on the list, announced Wednesday: "Flags of Our Fathers," in which Eastwood shows the aftermath of war through the eyes of the military men who raised the American flag during the Battle of Iwo Jima.

"This is his masterpiece," NBR President Annie Schulhof said of "Letters From Iwo Jima." "I was blown away by its delicacy, the poignancy of how he talks about war. I think it's also a searing condemnation of war. It was a unique view of the Japanese side of the battle. We don't always see that."


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I am guessing that this film will depict the true story of the inhumane way the Japanese killed our soldiers.
1 posted on 12/07/2006 12:48:31 PM PST by against_kerry
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To: against_kerry

Hollywood REALLY needs to get over itself.


2 posted on 12/07/2006 12:50:57 PM PST by The Blitherer (Fight On!)
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To: against_kerry

Not to mention the Rape of Nan King, wholesale slaughter of Chinese, Koreans, and the scores of Filipino girls 14-16 yrs old forced into service at the Jap Pleasure Camps to the turn of 40-60 men per day.


3 posted on 12/07/2006 12:51:55 PM PST by RSmithOpt (Liberalism: Highway to Hell)
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To: against_kerry

No, probably more like how our troops illegally invaded IJ and killed those poor, defenseless Japanese farmers who were peacefully working in their fields.


4 posted on 12/07/2006 12:52:10 PM PST by RetiredArmy (I don't march to other people's opinion of me or my beliefs. I march to my beliefs and heart.)
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To: against_kerry
More of Hollywood's sympathy for the Devil, apparently.
5 posted on 12/07/2006 12:52:50 PM PST by unspun (What do you think? Please think, before you answer.)
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To: against_kerry

Eastwood has had this in the works for a while as a counterpart to his earlier film from the American point of view. It's been done before with Tora Tora Tora. I sincerely doubt anything produced by spielberg about WW2 would be a Hate America film.


6 posted on 12/07/2006 12:54:44 PM PST by Borges
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To: The Blitherer

National Board of Review is the media not Hollywood.


7 posted on 12/07/2006 12:55:22 PM PST by Borges
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To: against_kerry
The dumbest statement in the article:
I think it's also a searing condemnation of war.
8 posted on 12/07/2006 12:58:29 PM PST by Sans-Culotte ("Thanks, Tom DeLay, for practically giving me your seat"-Nick Lampson)
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To: Borges

I sincerely doubt anything produced by spielberg about WW2 would be a Hate America film.
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Good point.


9 posted on 12/07/2006 12:59:05 PM PST by EagleUSA
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To: against_kerry

I think you guys are charging off half cocked.
Clint isn't into revisionism. This is the other side of an epic battle. He tells the first side in Flags of Our Fathers.

As a student of the war in the Pacific, I will really want to see this.

Japanese soldiers were ruthless. But that had more to do with how they got into the trenches in the first place. Not excusing their barbarity, but their society was still feudal thinking and barbarity in warfare was just another day at the beach for them. That notwithstanding, knowing what they were thinking is fascinating. From a historians point of view, I hope he is the same old Clint from yesteryear and just lets the pieces fall.

I've heard that he does just that and it isn't anti American at all.

We'll see.


10 posted on 12/07/2006 12:59:34 PM PST by Al Gator (Refusing to "stoop to your enemy's level", gets you cut off at the knees.)
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"I was blown away by its delicacy, the poignancy of how he talks about war. I think it's also a searing condemnation of war. It was a unique view of the Japanese side of the battle. We don't always see that."

So what's new? A lot of great war movies have scenes/speeches that condemn war, war-weary soldiers griping about war, grieving soldiers, traumatized soldiers: Guns of Navarone, Patton, We Were Soldiers, Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers, etc. to name a few.

11 posted on 12/07/2006 1:02:50 PM PST by DTogo (I haven't left the GOP, the GOP left me.)
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We shall see about this film, I wonder why Flags of our Fathers recieved no mention of an award, but this film did? Could it be a politcal statement? Why of course it is!
12 posted on 12/07/2006 1:05:39 PM PST by against_kerry
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To: against_kerry

I heard it wasn't very good. At least from the Freepers who saw it.


13 posted on 12/07/2006 1:06:21 PM PST by Borges
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Yeah, I'm trying to think of that war movie where everyone is running around just LOVING the war. For some reason I'm drawing a blank. :)


14 posted on 12/07/2006 1:09:26 PM PST by L98Fiero (The media is a self-licking ice-cream cone)
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To: Borges

Sounds like the Pacific version of "Das Boot."


15 posted on 12/07/2006 1:11:28 PM PST by dfwgator
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Watching 'Das Boot' it's hard to remember to root against the Germans. Same with reading 'All Quiet on the Western Front'.
16 posted on 12/07/2006 1:13:39 PM PST by Borges
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To: against_kerry
Yeah, I bet the film really captures the way that the Japanese Army behaved during the war...

...or maybe not!

17 posted on 12/07/2006 1:17:33 PM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner ("Si vis pacem para bellum")
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To: Borges
Watching 'Das Boot' it's hard to remember to root against the Germans. Same with reading 'All Quiet on the Western Front'.

Get "Stalingrad", it is by the same production company that did "Das Boot". Same treatment of the subject matter, only w/o the "happy" ending.

18 posted on 12/07/2006 1:18:53 PM PST by Turbo Pig (...to close with and destroy the enemy...)
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To: Borges

You heard right.


19 posted on 12/07/2006 1:21:50 PM PST by Uriah_lost (We've got enough youth, how about a "fountain of smart")
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To: against_kerry
Supposedly, Eastwood said this about the movie: What's human sacrifice if not sending guys off to Apocalypto for no reason?
20 posted on 12/07/2006 1:22:58 PM PST by macamadamia ("First thing we do, kill all the journalists." Joe Shakespeare)
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