Saw the movie and loved it. They struck very close to the book.
I read the book and saw the movie. It’s a fine movie, and makes no difference who directed it. Something tells me the criticism of the movie is mainly because of who directed it. I am no fan of Brad Pitt, the atheist little creep, but his wife is a good actress, who was brought up Christian and hopefully one day will return to the faith. In the book there is mention of Pappy Boyington, who was a POW in the same camp as Zamperini. I didn’t see this in the movie. I have always thought a movie about Colonel Boyington’s time as a POW would make a hell of a movie. If Zamperini was put through hell because of his notoriety as a track star, you can imagine the hell that Pappy Boyington went through for shooting down all those ZEROS! I read an interview by him a few years ago and he was asked about his time as a POW. He said it was not exactly a picnic but it probably added two years to his life. The interview said how was that possible. Pappy said “well hell it was two years I couldn’t drink”!!