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RE: Letters from Iwo Jima
Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 6:10 pm
by Footslogger
ORIGINAL: Canoerebel
If we didn't like TRL we're looking for a pure actionfest or hero worship; and because we're wargamers we "hate" the movie? My father, who is 85 and still spry as he can be, served in the US Army in WWII and saw combat. He's never played a wargame nor, to my knowledge, touched a computer. He detested TRL, but appreciated Saving Private Ryan.
My father served in the Navy, Pacific Theatre. What did your father do, if I may ask?
RE: Letters from Iwo Jima
Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 7:00 pm
by Canoerebel
Sergeant in the OSS (Office of Strategic Services) working in counterespionage - primarily locating and assisting in eradication or "flipping" of enemy agents in France.
RE: Letters from Iwo Jima
Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 8:21 pm
by Vladd
I'm not American, but I didn't see TRL as portraying the US as bad guys. Just as guys, really. It did show tortured and mutilated US corpses which hardly portrays the Japanese as saints.
It wasn't a patriotic film either, I grant that, but it wasn't trying to be.
RE: Letters from Iwo Jima
Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 11:57 pm
by Ubercat
ORIGINAL: Vladd
I'm not American, but I didn't see TRL as portraying the US as bad guys. Just as guys, really. It did show tortured and mutilated US corpses which hardly portrays the Japanese as saints.
It wasn't a patriotic film either, I grant that, but it wasn't trying to be.
It did? Like I said, it's been years. Maybe I judge too harshly.