Saw it yesterday. Great movie, very inspiring. How could I ever bellyache about anything ever again. Great movie for young people. The greatest generation endured so much and now we wind up with people who pull a gun because their cheeseburger wasn’t in the bag. Imagine what the WWII survivors must think of today’s society.
We’ll be seeing it today.
I’m glad you used this story to bash the younger generation...
My son sprung me from “senior living” on Christmas day, and took me to see it.
I read the book as soon as it came out, and doubted that the movie would do it justice. My son hasn’t read the book, and asked if I thought he should. I told him that he should as soon as he could.
The movie stands on it’s own, but I doubt it was because of Jolie. I think the credit is due to the Coens, et al.
The movie hits the high points of the book, and does it well, but there is so much more that isn’t covered. I highly recommend reading the book after seeing the movie. I felt differently about Nagasaki and Hiroshima after doing so.
I saw it on Christmas. Great movie!
Saw it. How could I ever complain about anything again? I’ll just remember the torture I endured sitting through two and a half hours of Angelina’s and the Coen bros collective view of zampirini a life which was a little mischievousness followed by a rather inexplicable success in the Olympics with a sudden airplane ride peppered with ridiculous Helen Keller jokes and getting shot at by, we suppose, the Japanese, and two hours of the 70+ day raft drift during which he fights with his raft mates in an out of a British then bad Italian accent all the while sporting a perfectly sculpted goatee
Oh and then another toe tapping lay interminable view of him in pow camp getting abused by a cross dressing Japanese pop star whom the younger audience members know as such and giggle at
His motivation for survival is, not the logical devotion to family and faith, noted in the book, and for which makes fun of his raft mate, but getting home to his mother’s gnocchi recipe
Kids will have zero idea from this torture inflicted on them what he was doing there, what the war was about, motivations, relationships among the troops, other characters in the war, or why anyone would recommend this movie to anyone
It is torture
And Jolie is getting a complete pass on this
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I just finished the book today and will be seeing it this afternoon. I hope the movie does the book justice. The things that he and the other prisoners had to endure is beyond imagination.
Glad to read your post. I’ve wanted to see the movie and read the book but haven’t yet. When I saw where this article came from, I immediately consulted the Freeper Comments for the truth. I got it. As usual. Thanks.
Just back from seeing “Unbroken.”
It’s a story about surviving. And that is an important message.
I guess others may have wanted more action and a bigger story.
However, surviving was his war experience (as it was for so many).
I and my family went yesterday. The theatre was filled and what struck me was how quiet the audience was. My complaint, as one who read the book, was that it seemed to end abruptly. Louie’s real triumph was the ordeal of his recovery recovery from his mental as well as physical health and his willingness to forgive even the Bird.
I saw it on Christmas as well. Although Zamperini live an extraordinary life, Angelina missed many opportunities to make the movie live up to those experiences. The movie was a long and some sequences could have been cut after the first showing. Relating more info about Zamperini’s interactions with his fellow POWs would have been helpful and showing more of what the other prisoners went through would have been good. It’s possible that the recounting the POWs true feelings about their captors would not go over well in such a PC world, even though this was during the war and we did hate the enemy.