[brazzaville]

Good evening.
"Please tell me this isn't going to be some sort of anti-war flick from Eastwood."

It doesn't really matter what message Eastwood means to send. He's a great movie maker and well crafted antiwar movies often turn out to be great war movies.

It's got to be next to impossible to warp the story of those brave Marines who raised the flag away from what they did, and you can look on the bright side: 21 thousand Japanese are going to get killed.

Michael Frazier

[tongue-tied]

I am not quite sure how to take this:

...and you can look on the bright side: 21 thousand Japanese are going to get killed.

Either you are a truly sick man or you don't give s sh!t about humanity and tragedy of war. 21,000 people killed--even if the enemy--to secure a position, is nothing to "look forward to".

List for me please, the great war movies that are anti war?

[OneWingedShark]

It doesn't really matter what message Eastwood means to send.

I beg to differ, of course the message matters. (Of course there's the chance that he'll send a different message than he intends.)

He's a great movie maker and well crafted antiwar movies often turn out to be great war movies.

I'd like to see him try to beat To End All Wars. (A superb movie, I highly recommend it... I should get the book too.)

[snip]and you can look on the bright side: 21 thousand Japanese are going to get killed.

That's not the bright side, that's the horrible side. The bright side is that we were victorious in defending ourselves. If you hate the Japanese people that much, then you should be ecstatic about the greatest failing of American Christian churches in the 20th century by failing to send missionaries immediately after the surrender. (Ironically, even the Admiral there said that missionaries were needed.)