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Movie review

posted by [personal profile] puszysty at 10:23pm on 08/02/2010
I just watched Letters from Iwo Jima, and I have to say, I liked this one better. Flags is more about what happens after they get back from Iwo Jima, Letters is about the battle itself. And when you find yourself rooting for the Japanese in a WWII movie, you know it's well made.
I recognized a few shots that were shown in both movies, but it wasn't very many, and most just explosions/gunfire.

And really, kudos to Clint Eastwood for making a movie almost entirely in Japanese.
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posted by [identity profile] msktrnanny.livejournal.com at 04:28am on 09/02/2010
I agree! Especially about the rooting for the Japanese idea. This movie is so much more... heartening! The shot of all those ships on the water... you know exactly what's going to happen and you feel for them so deeply. I really thought this was a great film.
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posted by [identity profile] lls-mutant.livejournal.com at 12:56pm on 09/02/2010
I liked Letters from Iwo Jima better, too. It's a tighter movie, I think, and I found the characters more compelling. (I'm also amused that the lead guy- the young one- is a Japanese boy band singer. Proof that boy band singers CAN act.)

I've never been a huge fan of Clint Eastwood as an actor, but I'm starting to really, really like the movies he directs.
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posted by [identity profile] puszysty.livejournal.com at 01:38am on 10/02/2010
We don't really get to know the characters well enough in Flags like we do in Iwo, I think. By the end of that movie, I felt really bad for Ira and how messed up the war made him (I also think Adam Beach is a fantastic actor), but Doc was still just some guy to me.

the lead guy- the young one- is a Japanese boy band singer. I saw that in the extras! I thought that was pretty cool.
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