ditto. If I had read the book or knew that Eastwood was going to make a movie about the emotions of the flagraisers, I wouldn't have purchased the dvd. I wanted to see a movie about how the Marines took Iwo Jima. I didn't see one. As it was after the umpteenth bond drive scene, I start fastforwarding to the battle scenes which became fewer and fewer as the movie dragged on. I actually ended only seeing about half the flick. How many bond drive scenes can a person stand. Deeply disappointed.
Right. It didn't show hard hard a fight we had on our hands, and why we took so few casualties. The second movie depicts the Japanese as heroes, as indeed they were. But Eastwood has made anti-war movies with us as the anti-heroes.