To: greenhornet68; VaBthang4; Joy Angela; goldilucky; Snow Bunny; JMJ333; onyx; abigail2; rebuildus; ...
...The MEL GIBSON Freedom Trilogy of...
.."BRAVEHEART".. "THE PATRIOT".. and .."WE WERE SOLDIERS"..
...has always been far less about Special Effects and more about Human Hearts put under great pressure.
...With .."WE WERE SOLDIERS".. it reaches its Message peak in accurately putting you in the shoes of those who fought and died in the -Valley of Death- that was the IA DRANG of November 1965 or those who waited for us to come home or NOT.
...For Special Effects go see...
..'BLACKHAWK DOWN'.. or ..'2001: A Space Odyssey.'
...For Hearts in the process of being perfected it's...
.."WE WERE SOLDIERS."
Because, after all, isn't that why we are all put here on this Earth ...to learn how to Love and to be Loved in return...
...and to live out our lives that way so that we may be with the LOVE itself for all Eternity...?
To: ALOHA RONNIE; greenhornet68; Joy Angela; goldilucky; Snow Bunny; JMJ333; onyx; abigail2; ...
I didnt read too much of what you said but my problem isnt one of special affects but piss poor cinematography. It simply could've been shot better.
The flight of fancy for freedom is all well and good but if you are going to do the story justice then how you shoot it is important.
Like I said...to the unlearned it would appear that he only carried a single company into battle. The overall battlefield wasnt shown in a way that helps people to comprehend what was happening all over the place.
Good enough movie but nowhere near something to put next to Braveheart or Blackhawk Down.
IMHO
To: ALOHA RONNIE
bump this post!
To: ALOHA RONNIE
that was indeed me this morning on C-SPAN's ..'Washington Journal'.. during its 1st hour thanking the Turkish Ambassador for his country's support of Stability in the area around it and therefore the world... Wow, that's great, Ronnie....Ambassador of Aloha. (^:
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