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« Reply #15 on: October 16, 2006, 10:13:56 AM »
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This movie is comming out next friday.  I also heard Clint Eastwood is gonna make a 2nd version of this movie but in Japanese point of view with Japanese actors.  Is that true?


Im prolly gonna go Friday afternoon to see this movie...I read the book two years ago, and I was enthralled when I heard about the movie!  You heard correct!  The movie is called "Letters from Iwo Jima"- The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.
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« Reply #16 on: October 16, 2006, 10:26:03 AM »
look here
http://www.flagsofourfathers.net

can't wait to see it ;)
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« Reply #17 on: October 16, 2006, 10:28:47 AM »
Taking my 10 year old son to it. He's a WW2 fanatic (gee, wonder where he got that from...) and he's seen Saving Private Ryan, so blood and gore aside, he'll get a look inside the historical side (albeit hollyweird version) of Iwo Jima.

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« Reply #18 on: October 16, 2006, 11:24:01 AM »
The invasion scene is going to top SPR by far......promise :D
The gear on the set was just.....awesome, so many boats and tanks and hundreds and hundreds of extras ;)
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« Reply #19 on: October 16, 2006, 11:28:06 AM »
Make sure to bring a box of tissues men!

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« Reply #20 on: October 16, 2006, 11:29:30 AM »
I head they shot this film @ Iceland:D

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« Reply #21 on: October 16, 2006, 11:31:56 AM »
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The invasion scene is going to top SPR by far......promise :D
The gear on the set was just.....awesome, so many boats and tanks and hundreds and hundreds of extras ;)


OMG! That's like half the population right? :p  ;)

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« Reply #22 on: October 16, 2006, 11:42:52 AM »
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I head they shot this film @ Iceland:D


Hehe, they did a lot of it here. I was in it :D
Even found a scene I was in on the trailer. Guys diving into a trench under heavy fire, one rolls over his head into the trench. That is either me or the guy in front, - we shot this 3 or 4 times if I recall right. I saw this done, so I copied it in the scene.
I'm drooling for that film, I tell ya ;)
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« Reply #23 on: October 16, 2006, 11:44:07 AM »
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OMG! That's like half the population right? :p  ;)


No, but 600 is....2 promills. 2 promills feels just good :D
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« Reply #24 on: October 16, 2006, 11:51:03 AM »
I have a feeling that this movie will be as good as (or better) 1998 Saving Ryan

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« Reply #25 on: October 16, 2006, 12:32:13 PM »
A friend of mine (same "platoon") was looking over Eastwood's shoulders when he was viewing some part of the combat scenes that had been put together from the footage. (It's both film and electonic I belive). He said it was absolutely awesome awesome and ,,,, AWESOME.
It was very interesting to carry out the flight trials at Rechlin with the Spitfire and the Hurricane. Both types are very simple to fly compared to our aircraft, and childishly easy to take-off and land. (Werner Mölders)

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« Reply #26 on: October 16, 2006, 12:34:14 PM »
The breif cockpit shot they show of the corsair on a straffing run looks awesome awesome awesome
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