MEDVED: "WE WERE SOLDIERS" deserves Best Picture Oscar Nomination

MICHAEL MEDVED, Film Critic/Talk Radio Show Host ^ | 12/27/2002 | ALOHA RONNIE

[ALOHA RONNIE]

NEVER FORGET

...December 27, 2002 =

...A Day like all Days except...

...Film Critic and National Talk Radio Show Host MICHAEL MEDVED stated that MEL GIBSON's...

.."WE WERE SOLDIERS".. -&- .."SIGNS"..

...along with...

.."THE LORD OF THE RINGS: The 2 Towers"..

...deserve to be nominated for Best Picture Oscars for next year's Academy Award World TV Event to again be hosted by Comedian Extraordinaire STEVE MARTIN in the Hollywood KODAK Theater.

...MICHAEL MEDVED went on to say that both .."WE WERE SOLDIERS".. -&- .."SIGNS".. were extraordinary films about the Realities of LOVE and HATE in this World.

AMEN.

For more on .."WE WERE SOLDIERS".. and our 7th Cavalry Battle in the Valley of Death known as the IA DRANG Valley of 1965 it so very well depicts see...

http://www.WeWereSoldiers.com

http://www.lzxray.com

as well as the many .."WE WERE SOLDIERS" / Battle of IA DRANG-1965 / IA DRANG-Sept. 11th Hero RICK RESCORLA.. Freerepublic.com Threads that I have bookmarked, simply by hitting the .."ALOHA RONNIE".. on this Post.

...And then, mark your Ballots, Academy Members.

Signed:

ALOHA RONNIE Guyer / Vet-Battle of IA DRANG-1965 / Landing Zone Falcon / Former Radioman to Lt. Col. HAL G. MOORE (MEL GIBSON) / Former High School Classmate to STEVE MARTIN

T'was ALL IN GOD's Plan, perhaps...?

NEVER FORGET

[BibChr]

Quoth pr:

...three hours of dark and violent battles, which is what I didn't like about LOTR

I.e. she didn't like that it was "three hours of dark and violent battles." Whether she meant that, or meant that the few battles in FOTR discredited the whole movie for her (i.e. I guess they should have held hands with Sauron and sang Kum By Ya, then all would have been well; or done all the fighting off-screen, then discussed the outcome over wine and cheese onscreen, with Julia Roberts as Arwen), I stand by my response.

Dan

[Gritty]

Thanks for the links!

[ALOHA RONNIE]

...You are most welcome for the links.

...Again, by simply hitting the ..ALOHA RONNIE.. on this Post you can access a myriad of RICK RESCORLA, Battle of IA DRANG-1965 and "WE WERE SOLDIERS" Threads pointing the way to a Lesson for our Time.

...To sign our Petition for President BUSH to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to RICK RESCORLA...

.. go to the link just under his Battle of IA DRANG-1965 Photo at the top of our Home Page on...


http://www.lzxray.com ...


So Blessed were we to have had him with us for such a short while.

NEVER ever FORGET...RICK RESCORLA

[Gritty]

...To sign our Petition for President BUSH to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to RICK RESCORLA... go to the link

Gladly done!

[ALOHA RONNIE]

...That makes for 17,303 RICK RESCORLA Presidential Medal of Freedom Signatures strong...

[mommadooo3]

I'm not into the 'awards' stuff. Sooo, I don't know if this'll matter much. But, Ronnie, we'll NEVER forget, you'll NEVER be forgotten.

God bless you and all those who gave some, or gave all.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

GARRY OWEN, Sir

[ALOHA RONNIE]

...Thank you for your gracious NEVER FORGETTING.

[goldilucky]

An excellent movie, indeed!

[goldilucky]

Communism is the antithesis of everything that this Country, Land of the Free, stands for. God, Freedom, and the Individual.

[Mr. Mojo]

I agree.....We Were Soldiers should win best picture honors. But considering that this is a film that highlighted the honor and bravery of those who served in Vietnam, I can't imagine the leftists on the Oscar board will see it that way.

That said, and to take nothing away from We Were Soldiers, this was probably the worst year (overall) for movies that I can remember.

[goldilucky]

Don Duong may the Lord watch over you each day as you confront the evil that lurks both domestic and foreign in the United States. People like myself believe in what you stand for just as Harry Woo did to inform the U.S. of what the communist are really about. Communist are not nice people at all. I too know from first hand experience of what they are really about.

[F16Fighter]

"I think the women in the story were as much the soldiers as the men."

With all due respect, I disagree...

BTW, while the movie was excellent all the way round, Madeline Stowe's mannequin-like appearance was a bit distracting, wouldn't you say?

[Euro-American Scum]

Look what they looked past in 1996 with Shakespeare in love beating Saving Private Ryan for best picture...

Contrast the dissing of Saving Private Ryan with Spielberg's other WWII blockbuster, Schindler's List. Private Ryan doesn't even get a look from the liberal Hollywood elite. Schindler's List wins best picture.

What's the difference, you ask? Schindler's List highlighted the plight of liberals' favorite group of helpless victims, the Jews -- at least until they became politically incorrect after 9/11 -- while damning liberals' favorite bogeymen, the Nazis.

Saving Private Ryan honored the American fighting man and America's role in the destruction of the greatest evil the world had faced to that time.

No movie that honors America will ever win best picture in this day and age.

[patriciaruth]

Dear Dan,

I wish you'd been around to advise me before I saw all those films. I'm sure you would have been more graphic if FR didn't have rules. Giggle.

TTT-I'm sure there must be a pony in here somewhere. Hey, lighten up you all. I just said the trailers (the ads) made it seem dark. With soldiers being shot and killed for real and war looming with Iraq, I'm not in the mood for dark right now.

And thinking that maybe the soldiers aren't either, I sent more comedies than action to them for Christmas:

[ALOHA RONNIE]

...I personally thought that MADELINE STOWE's Mrs. JULIE MOORE in .."WE WERE SOLDIERS".. was just outstanding.

...In real life Mrs. JULIE MOORE was there to comfort the Wives of Heroes who were in mortal danger of falling in Battle ..or did.

...MADELINE STOWE's portrayal helped us all feel as she did in the Process.

...Friend of MADELINE STOWE concurs.

...I personally will NEVER FORGET her fear of each arriving Telegram-Carrying Taxi Cab.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

...Friend of MADELINE STOWE =

...Mrs. JULIE MOORE

[F16Fighter]

"...I personally thought that MADELINE STOWE's Mrs. JULIE MOORE in .."WE WERE SOLDIERS".. was just outstanding."

To each his/her own, but it was my impression that Miss Stowe's obvious rather taut plastic surgery apparently limited much visible expression.

[Mudboy Slim]

"...don't hold your breath waiting for the pinkos in Hollywood to give any recognition to a Vietnam movie that didn't accuse the Americans of being war criminals."

WHO CARES?! Seriously, the debate is what we want, not the hardware, IMHO. Have you tried to go in any WalMart accross America to find this movie? I have...musta checked a half-dozen WalMarts accross Virginia and haven't seen this move YET!! After FReepers and DittoHeads and FNCers debate why HollyWeirdo is so unabashedly Lib'ral that it ignores this movie when Prizes are awarded, well, I'll bet'cha WalMart will start selling this movie...may even set up one of them there cardboard displays.

And isn't that really the point?!

FReegards...MUD

[tm22721]

For pure testosterone laden entertainment, Gangs of New York beats everything else this year.

BUMP