Posted on 12/27/2014 6:33:18 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
To me, that was the salvation of the story.
By itself, it would have been interesting, but that he came home a ruined man, bent on self destruction and murder, would have made it a side note like hundreds or thousands of others.
But this man found God, and was able to forgive those men who mistreated him so violently. God had opened up Louie’s eyes for a day out on the ocean and let him see the miracle of what He and his creation is, and that came back to him later.
It is not really the story of an Olympic hero or a military man being stranded in a raft, or even a man who was declared dead and came back to life.
It is, in my opinion, a story about a man who was tested by God, who found his way to God in one of the darkest hours of his life, and was able to forgive those who hated and tortured him, which allowed him to live the rest of his life in happiness and with purpose.
Pretty remarkable story.
I was so young when the bombs were dropped, therefore really didn’t have a “context” for the necessity of using them.
After reading “Unbroken”, it was crystal clear why we had no other choice. I wish we could have used them sooner.
The Japanese were unbelievably cruel and sadistic. They were far worse than ISIS is today.
This movie is directed by a person who has no idea about war, and it is obvious. The Coen bros who wrote the screenplay have no idea about war and that is obvious.
Maybe a movie about how war affects people can be made by people who have no idea about war, but it is best done as hanks and Spielberg did this with band of brothers. Fund it, then hire experts and step aside
It’s not that she’s a girl that makes it so bad, It’s that her being a girl is what is bad about it. It is boring and pointless, no character development. The kids I was with said the acting was terrible. Is that because she’s a girl? Probably not. But she shows no respect for the subject matter just like a girl coming in to do football commentary. I’d rather listen to Hannah storm on football than anyone. But she knows what she’s talking about
There is nothing intrinsically bad about film criticism.
What I find repellent about almost all film review is the self indulgent way it is performed by people who do not create, and are primarily interested in hearing their own voices.
Why do movie reviewers come off as grumpy faggots?
Maybe they’re just grumpy faggots.
What do you mean?
What male actors of Jolies prominence have gone on to become (primarily) directors? None, because there is more money is being the star of a film than being a director. Of those male actors that have gone on to become directors (Ron Howard as example) they were never leading men. A good female example would be Penny Marshall.
I’d asked wifey to get me the book for Christmas, which she did (Neither of us “do” movies). I just got started on it this morning - it’s gonna be a good one.
Prison Porn, eh? Don’t know what that is, but a strange way to characterize it.
Well, I haven’t seen it yet, so I’ll let you know what I think.
Ron Howard is a good actor. He was so fifty years ago. See ‘the courtship of Effie’s father’ for example. He went on in TV and discovered tgen that he was a good director. ‘Apollo 13 took a great story and Mae if better and is a tribute to American exceptional ism as well as simply inspiring and re watchable
Just for example
And penny marshal also grew up in the business she was a good director with talent and connections and knew or knows her limitations as any successful professional does. She told mark wahlberg to quit being an idiot and get himself into acting. She was right
I’ve seen one Jolie film having been drawn to none ‘salt’ is vacuous bland flat and boring. It’s her running around acting like a fashion model. It’s a magazine shoot. She has no credibility as a filmmaker and is getting a pass here
Good criticism is a creative activity. It’s an art form. Many times a great critical essay is a lot more worthwhile than the art it’s dealing with.
Here in 18 you quote:
“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.”
And you haven’t seem the movie?
I don’t use such terms but I am defending his view. He is right
That anyone should find this movie anything but weird and boring if not bizarre is so strange to me
Jolie did something to you, long ago maybe? Like put you in a locker in middle school?
And it sticks something in the eye of the Japanese who have been desperately trying for some nearly 70 years, to deny their militaristic past and their embrace of the Bushido Code, the way of the Samurai.
Japanese prison camps were among the most brutal the world has ever seen, vastly exceeding even the worst of Abu Graib while under the administration of the US. Probably the same prison under Saddam Hussein much more nearly approached the Japanese prison camps of China, particularly in and near Nanking, but that still fell far short of the totals and the sheer ferocity of the Japanese onslaught.
This is very true; I have the suspicion that the relative lack of libertarian or Christian thought in America's media/arts is tied to the soft sciences being utterly dominated by the ideology of the left. (Though I have no idea which one causes the other, or if they're both resultant of some other causal factor.)
Sounds like a great flick to me.
Sounds like a great flick to me.
If we had invaded Japan, we would have to have killed just about every man, woman, and child in the country. They were preparing to fight using bamboo spears. And our casualties would have been in the hundreds of thousands. Counter-intuitive as it sounds, the bombs saved millions of lives.
Ida Lupino directed seven movies and was busy directing TV dramas way back in the 50s.
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