Posted on 12/27/2014 6:33:18 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
No. It is two plus hours of pure boredom
Had to break out ‘band of brothers’ for viewing as soon as I got home for an antidote
You are correct. Don’t doubt it
Some lefty gomer from Salon. About what you’d expect.
#1 on Christmas Day.
Louie became an alcoholic after WWII. His fame and war hero status wasn't sufficient. Eventually he found himself, by the grace of God, at a Billy Graham crusade in Los Angeles.
Jesus Christ took up residence in Louie's heart and changed him completely. Louie went to Japan and forgave his abusers. He started an organization for troubled kids. He truly became, through his Saviour, unbroken.
Jolie's film barely touches this aspect of Louie's life, but it is there.
One suspects the Christian viewpoint of the film's subject might be tainting this "journalist".
The bomb saved those men's lives.
: )
Yes, he’s a grump, just like all liberals.
When I saw where this article came from, I immediately consulted the Freeper Comments for the truth. I got it. As usual. Thanks.
Can’t wait to see this movie.
Yeah. Letters from Iwo Jima, Flags of my Fathers, Gran Torino, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, yeah just a few pointless middlebrow director jobs indeed.
Looking for a single word for this reviewer who was clearly weened on lemons: #$@%^, OK there - I said it!
I was thinking about that. In general, it could have been due to the extreme abuse that allies suffered that was displayed in the movie, and that it made him/her support the use of nuclear weapons more.
Or it could have been that there is a scene in the movie that he talked about the book, that when they went through the firebombed cities where everything had been reduced to ashes, he saw lots of large, shiny things looming large out of the rubble. They were all over the place, industrial machines that people produced war materials in their homes with. Nobody at that time (except for the people running the war) had any idea the Japanese had distributed war production to that extent.
Or, the viewer might have felt differently in a negative way by seeing the destruction. Even a Hollywoodized version of the destruction can be emotionally disturbing in a way that makes some people think there is NO cause worth fighting for if it results in a 1945 Japan.
ABSOLUTELY no question on that point. My father (USMC) also was in Pacific Theater for a time in 1944-45. He served in Korea and in Nam (adviser 1963-64). On military matters I always considered is opinion more astute than any civilian's. Especially a politician or a pundant of any kind. A manned invasion of the island would have been a long bloodbath of immense scale. American lives had to be a higher priority than Japanese lives in that situation. That's hard, cold reality. Still, there is good reason to believe that the bomb(s) resulted in FEWER Japanese casualties than an invasion would have.
Do see it. You will be searching the dictionary for a synonym to fetishness. People think it’s inspiring to young people to watch two hours of a guy getting beaten, no. It is not
Zamperinis story has the perfect combination of independent thinking, discipline, devotion to faith, normal male motivations, legal immigrant devotion to country and endurance with hope and humor
Jolie turns that opportunity into two hours of prison porn
What’s bad about film criticism? There should not be serious discussion of cinema?
I saw it last night. It was a good movie, but it did drag out in some places. I would have liked it to get through the war part a little faster (not leave it out)and get into his life after the war a little. His battle with alcoholism and his conversion. I guess that would have been too much for the Hollywood liberals, though.
Is most of the movie really him being beaten? We are seeing it later today...I think.
I find the reviews on imdb to generally be pretty accurate. And they say just what I’d expect from an Angelina Jolie movie:
No depth.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1809398/reviews?ref_=tt_urv
I thought so. Excellent review and thanks for saving me $8.00.
The teenaged crew (four) I took to see Unbroken last night immediately began relating the fanaticism of Japan circa 1943 with Islam 2014. I’m am soooo glad Jolie did not insult my intelligence with a protracted backstory about WWII.
None of the ones you listed are since he quit acting. His post acting career (Gran Torino was when he announced his retirement, but he got tempted out again for Trouble With The Curve) is pretty bland: Invictus, J Edgar, Jersey Boys. American Sniper is getting decent reviews though.
The Soft Sciences have been corrupted.
However, I do wish that serious people could take an honest look at modern views of sexuality and male-female relationships. I think there is strange stuff going on, and I think some of the fetishes out there are probably quite revealing about the health of our society. As an example: many women seem to shave their public hair -- what does THAT say about men? Not anything good.
Prison porn and watching a man be beaten for 2 hours? That also probably reflects badly on someone's psychological health.
I can see the pattern with Stanne... So now I start to wonder. . .
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