Flags Of Our Fathers, Trailer !

[Hawklore]

Wow, looks like it just might be an emotional movie, no more of the combat this combat that.

Glad to see the guy from windtalkers in it though, he's always had me from the beg.

[AquaShrimp]

The super-emotional war movie thing has been overplayed.  Saving Private Ryan was on the borderline of being too sappy, Thin Red Line was too.  But this movie looks like it takes the cake.

[Golfer]

Originally posted by AquaShrimp
The super-emotional war movie thing has been overplayed.  Saving Private Ryan was on the borderline of being too sappy, Thin Red Line was too.  But this movie looks like it takes the cake.

You must be one of those people that liked Pearl Harbor for its historical aspects.

[AquaShrimp]

I can tell that you cried watching the aforementioned movies.

[Golfer]

Originally posted by AquaShrimp
I can tell that you cried watching the aforementioned movies.

It hurt to watch.

What kind of a dig was that anyway?

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by AquaShrimp
I can tell that you cried watching the aforementioned movies.

And I can tell you have never borne witness firsthand of a vet  who while in the middle of telling you about something that happened stopped mid sentance and all of a sudden going into that same exact thousand mile stare that the old man had in Prvt Ryan as he flashed back and relived the episode. The whole time pointing into the distance going "And, and, and" then silence as he looked up and tears flowing freely down his face Completely oblivious to you trying to snap him out of it for a full 10 minutes.

Sappy my arse

[Hawklore]

Originally posted by AquaShrimp
I can tell that you cried watching the aforementioned movies.

War is hell, it does untold damage to the human mind and body, that is irreversible.

Portraying that only alows us that don't understand a small glimpse into the minds of veterans, because some are just too afraid to ask.




You have shamed yourself in the eyes of many if not all veterans.



Grow up..

[Angus]

I took a train trip in Germany once with my boss for the week who was a carpenter.
He was drafted for a flak unit when he was 15 (1943) together with his whole class.
He told me about this life, he did obviously have to fight his emotions while doing so. Their casualty rate (dead that is) was 50% by the end of the war.
Going past Cologne, with the cathredal lit up in the dark he did get that remote look.
Then he muttered, "you should have seen what the city was like at the war's end. It was so completely destroyed apart from the cathredal. Then he shook his head and I could see his eye (only had one) was watery.

Call it sappy, but that was RL.

[soda72]

[bsdaddict]

First I'm hearing about this movie, looks cool.  I've been very interested in Iwo Jima and the Pacific campaign in general ever since a few summers ago, when me and the famdamily were visiting my Uncle and Granddad who are buried at Arlington.  We were at my Grandfathers grave and I noticed a few graves over one of the markers had an emblem of the raising of the flag on Suribachi (sp?)  We could only surmise that that was the grave of one of the raisers, so I took note of the name, Renee Gagnon, did some research when we got home and sure enough, he was one of 'em...

[Neubob]

Flags of our fathers

Anyone here know anything more detailed about this movie? Given the subject matter and Eastwood as the director, I think this may be a great film.

[DiabloTX]

Read the book.  It'll give you a whole new perspective on the **** that went on in the Pacific.  And I ain't just talking about Japanese acting horrific on Allied troops, some of the American admirals deserved to be called out as well for doing what they did to the Marines.

Read the book.

[cpxxx]

I am looking forward to the movie. I hope the hell it gets the story right.

[Hornet33]

I'm curious to see if they tell where the flag came from. Anyone else know?

[DiabloTX]

Where the flag came from?  What do you mean?