Posted on 12/27/2014 6:33:18 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Saw it yesterday. Great movie, very inspiring. How could I ever bellyache about anything ever again. Great movie for young people. The greatest generation endured so much and now we wind up with people who pull a gun because their cheeseburger wasn’t in the bag. Imagine what the WWII survivors must think of today’s society.
We’ll be seeing it today.
I’m glad you used this story to bash the younger generation...
Best Picture (1975 Oscar nominations for films from 1974)
The Godfather Part II - Francis Ford Coppola
Chinatown - Robert Evans
The Conversation - Francis Ford Coppola
Lenny - Marvin Worth
The Towering Inferno - Irwin Allen
Highest-grossing films of 1974
1. Blazing Saddles Warner Bros. $119,500,000
2. The Towering Inferno 20th Century Fox / Warner Bros. $116,000,000
3. The Trial of Billy Jack Warner Bros. $89,000,000
4. Young Frankenstein 20th Century Fox $86,273,333
5. Earthquake Universal Pictures $79,666,653
6. The Godfather Part II Paramount Pictures $47,542,841
7. Airport 1975 Universal Pictures $47,285,152
8. The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams Sunn Classic Pictures $45,411,063
9. The Longest Yard Paramount Pictures $43,008,075
10. Benji Mulberry Square Releasing $39,552,000
Saw it. Libs always marginalize women. It was a great film. Jolie did a fine job.
My son sprung me from “senior living” on Christmas day, and took me to see it.
I read the book as soon as it came out, and doubted that the movie would do it justice. My son hasn’t read the book, and asked if I thought he should. I told him that he should as soon as he could.
The movie stands on it’s own, but I doubt it was because of Jolie. I think the credit is due to the Coens, et al.
The movie hits the high points of the book, and does it well, but there is so much more that isn’t covered. I highly recommend reading the book after seeing the movie. I felt differently about Nagasaki and Hiroshima after doing so.
Mr. O’Hehir doesn’t sound like a very happy person.
Still debating if I want to see it in theaters yet. Japanese behavior during WWII tends to raise my blood pressure and give me toothaches.
I saw it on Christmas. Great movie!
God is alive and Nietzche is dead- of syphilis!
There in nothing remotely Nietzchean about Zamperini, he was a proudly self-confessed Christian. Father, Son & Holy Ghost-- the whole nine yards.
More than anything else this fact infuriates and informs the boring snark that is Salon.
I got bored by the previews. Every scene dragged. Maybe the movie is cut better.
In what way? More against or more for?
Not to muddy the issue, but I always believed that the bombs saved millions of lives, both American and Japanese. And my father was then on a troopship in the Pacific, a young, fresh solider straight from Fort Dix boot camp, bound for Operation Downfall, the planned invasion of Japan.
Saw it. How could I ever complain about anything again? I’ll just remember the torture I endured sitting through two and a half hours of Angelina’s and the Coen bros collective view of zampirini a life which was a little mischievousness followed by a rather inexplicable success in the Olympics with a sudden airplane ride peppered with ridiculous Helen Keller jokes and getting shot at by, we suppose, the Japanese, and two hours of the 70+ day raft drift during which he fights with his raft mates in an out of a British then bad Italian accent all the while sporting a perfectly sculpted goatee
Oh and then another toe tapping lay interminable view of him in pow camp getting abused by a cross dressing Japanese pop star whom the younger audience members know as such and giggle at
His motivation for survival is, not the logical devotion to family and faith, noted in the book, and for which makes fun of his raft mate, but getting home to his mother’s gnocchi recipe
Kids will have zero idea from this torture inflicted on them what he was doing there, what the war was about, motivations, relationships among the troops, other characters in the war, or why anyone would recommend this movie to anyone
It is torture
And Jolie is getting a complete pass on this
No
I just finished the book today and will be seeing it this afternoon. I hope the movie does the book justice. The things that he and the other prisoners had to endure is beyond imagination.
I gave it a nine out of ten.
There is something else at work here. This is the third review I have read that seriously belittled the movie while saying “Yeah, Louie Zamperinin’s story is impressive and all and he went through a lot, but...” and then follow it with some kind of criticism.
In one movie, a wimpy grease spot of a guy in his twenties complained that Angelina Jolie “fetishises” Louie Zamperini’s suffering. It must have been a new word he read in a dictionary.
I don’t know squat about Angelina Jolie. But I do know about Louie Zamperini’s story...an American story, and an unbelievable, remarkable one.
The reviews I have read seem to take personal issue with her in some odd way. I think they are taking issue with the fact that she directed it.
I dislike most film reviewers, beginning with the greatest dislike for Siskel and Ebert, they kind of personify my dislike for their craft.
As for the movie, I haven’t seen it yet, but I will.
Glad to read your post. I’ve wanted to see the movie and read the book but haven’t yet. When I saw where this article came from, I immediately consulted the Freeper Comments for the truth. I got it. As usual. Thanks.
who cares that it was directed by a woman? why do libs, who claim we are all the same no matter the color, gender, nationality, always seem to point out such things as color, gender and nationality?
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