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Flags of Our Fathers (Widescreen Edition) | List Price: $14.99
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Brand: Paramount
Binding: DVD
Release Date: 2007-02-06
What was the Message? [Posted on 2008-11-16]
This movie was made with a sort of cynicism that drained the life out any real passion for making it. By focusing too much on the 'bad' side of America during the War in the Pacific, Clint Eastwood leaves the viewer with their own battle fatigue. Jumping from the war to modern times and back again and again during the whole movie was like being drug through the mud having to endure another one of hollywood leftist's anti-American rantings.
Poorly made and although it had potential, the movie will leave you wondering what message it is the viewer is supposed to swallow. The general message is: 'dislike your country for standing up to Imperial Japan, because underneath it all we were all just a bunch of western materialists at heart and that we should have lost' - I think.
FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS [Posted on 2008-11-30]
AWESOME MOVIE. CLINT EASTWOOD DOES IT AGAIN. HE PROVES HOW GREAT A DIRECTOR HE IS AND HOW MOVIES SHOULD BE PLUS IT CELEBRATES A HISTORIC TALE.
Falls a little short [Posted on 2008-12-13]
A big ambitious film, this one tries very hard but ultimately falls short of being the majestic look at the meaning of it all that Clint strove for. The story behind the Iwo Jima flag raising is an intriguing one and this film lays it bare, though the structure of flashbacks may not help. Is it about the misplaced idoltry, the meaning of war, the Greatest Generation, the stories of the soldiers involved? Yes, yes yes etc. It just doesn't quite achieve those goals. Still, it's a valiant effort, well worth watching as Clint keeps cranking out the best work of his career.
Captures the sacrifices of the Vets [Posted on 2008-12-20]
Having seen this three times now (once in movie theater and two times on DVD), it makes me appreciate the sacrifices of the Marines in the island hopping campaigns of Pacific during WW II. Clint Eastwood has done a marvelous job in capturing the suffering of those who were involved in the Iwo Jima battle. Also, it was an informative movie to me. I had no idea about the 2nd flag rising and the fate of those who did it. Job well done!
Ambitious but dull [Posted on 2008-12-23]
In Flags of Our Fathers, director Clint Eastwood attempts to deliver a stirring and thought provoking film that honors the sacrifices made by the veterans of World War II, while at the same time fixing a critical gaze on the U.S. government for their exploitation of those vets to promote public support of the war. Kudos to Clint for thinking big, but he seems to have bitten off more than he can chew in this case.
The movie shifts back and forth between the bloody battle of Iwo Jima, where we watch young men afraid and dying as they fight for each other more so than their county and, the home front where three soldiers who were part of the iconic flag raising picture travel around the country encouraging people to support the war. The idea that the movie is driving at is that the photo, considered one of the most famous of the 20th century, wasn't what the public thought it was. It was actually a picture of soldiers replacing the initial flag that was planted. The soldiers in the picture never felt that their flag raising act was heroic, but that's how the government wanted it spun in order to keep hope alive among the masses.
The movie attempts to portray the conflicted emotions carried by the soldiers as they play the role of heroes even though they know the truth, but none of the characters is developed well enough to make us care about what they are feeling. As for the war scenes, they are well done but they feel like Saving Private Ryan warmed over. There is no immedicacy or fear. Eastwood isn't able to put you there in the thick of things the way Speilberg did.
The end result is a movie that often feels muddled and confused and lacks a center. It's a movie about ideas and questions, but it forgets to engage the audience in any real or meaningful way.
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