20 posted on 12/16/2004 11:34:35 AM PST by Shryke (My Beeb-o-meter goes all the way to eleven.) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]
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While I agree let me ask you this, did you ever miss the F word or any other vulgar words when you sat down and Watched the Movies:
MidWay Staring Charlton Heaston?
The Sands of Iwo Jima with John Wayne?
The Green Berets with John Wayne?
To Hell and back starring Audie Murphy?
I submit those movies for their time were the same attempt at Illistration of that war. To Hell and Back was written and played by the Star of the Movie Audie Murphy. The most Decorated Vet of WWII.
I don't believe I ever heard him say F#$% once. Imagine that.
I've seen them. Good movies all, and none neared the realism of SPR. Not even close. Heck, I've watched Audie Murphy's Hell and Back twice. It doesn't COMPARE to the actual accounts of what he did. When you watch SPR's beginning on Omaha Beach, you are never going to get closer. Listened to 2 different D-Day vets talk about that movie, with tears in their eyes. One of the reasons why it is so real is that they kept the dialogue real.