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As the surviving flag-raisers reluctantly play their public roles as "the heroes of Iwo Jima" during an exhausting (but clearly necessary) wartime bond rally tour, Flags of Our Fathers evolves into a pointed study of battlefield valor and misplaced idolatry, incorporating subtle comment on the bogus nature of celebrity, the trauma of battle, and the true meaning of heroism in wartime. Wisely avoiding any direct parallels to contemporary history, Eastwood allows us to draw our own conclusions about the Iwo Jima flag-raisers and how their postwar histories (both noble and tragic) simultaneously illustrate the hazards of exploited celebrity and society's genuine need for admirable role models during times of national crisis. Flags of Our Fathers defies the expectations of those seeking a more straightforward war-action drama, but it's richly satisfying, impeccably crafted film that manages to be genuinely patriotic (in celebrating the camaraderie of soldiers in battle) while dramatizing the ultimate futility of war. Eastwood's follow-up film, Letters from Iwo Jima, examines the Iwo Jima conflict from the Japanese perspective. --Jeff Shannon
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| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Clint Eastwood |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 20 October, 2006 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Dreamworks Video |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Action, Adventure, Award, Awards, Best Picture, Drama, Feature Film-drama, Globe, Globes, Golden, Iwo Jima, Marine, Military, Nomination, Nominations, Oscar, WW II, WW2, WWII, World War 2 |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| MPN: | D117824D |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 097361178240 |
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Customer Reviews of Flags of Our Fathers (Widescreen Edition)
Anti-War film with some fighting I am not sure if anyone else saw this film the same way but I took it as a 90 minute Anti-War film with 15 minutes of battle scenes. Why was there so much time put into having the wrong names of the Marines who raised the flag on the island and the government covering it up? This point seem to be thrown out at you all throughout the film when there was on need for it. It should have been stated to set the record straight and then not brought up again. If they wanted to really honor the Marines they should have focused more on the events that took place during the battle, not the politics of the tour to increase the sale of War Bonds. Also the movie jumped around far too much. The son of one of the Marines who raised the flag was interviewing individuals who were on the island with flashbacks to the tour in the US for War Bonds who had flashbacks of the fighting which took place on the island. Too much time was wasted trying to figure out who was talking to who and at what point in time it was taking place. Someone should have watched "Saving Private Ryan" instead of "Pearl Harbour" before making this film. We have had enough anti-war talk from Hollywood. When is it going to stop? Don't waste your time with this movie, there are better films out there that honor the men and women who have fought for this country. Films like "The Longest Day" come to mind.
Pure Hollywood dreck
I held off even viewing the video due to the pre-release hype and spin. I could tell then it was a piece of hollywood revisionist BS, probably
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>one of the worst movies I have seen in the last 10 years.
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>While the effort was noble,wrapped in the flag for our veterans, and protected under their halo. The movie stunk. It stunk because Clint was trying to make it relevant. For example the the scene where the publicist for the bond drive rails about lack of money for the war, and the Arabs not giving us enough oil. Huh? Are we talking WWII or Iraq. Old Clint should check his facts. He laments that the factories can't produce bullets etc due to a bankrupt economy. Huh? WE WERE the worlds economy back then, producing more that all our adversaries AND Allies combined. Our soldiers on Okinawa and in the Phllipines would have been suprised to hear that we were out of bullets since they went on to fight unimpeded for another 6 months till the end of the war. The oilmen of the US, then the worlds largest producer and exporter of oil would have been amused too. The extent of the reserves in the Middle East were not known until AFTER the war. The US floated the Allies to victory on a ocean of oil produced in Texas and the mid continent. Period. The movie was pure liberal hollywood BS.
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>Don't get me wrong, I grew up in the military and lived on Okinawa, scene of the same kind of vicious fighting as seen on Iwo, only it lasted three MONTHS. Eastwood has made a film worth to stand with the likes of Pearl Harbor. It is filled to the top of a 50 gallon drum with stereotypes and ho hum characters. If all the Marines in real life were so uninteresting then I wonder why the battle even made the papers.
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>Only someone totally unfamiliar with the Pacific War, the battle, and the central characters, could believe half of the "facts" presented in the movie or sit through it to it's final painful but anti-clamatic ending.
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>The battle sequences while well done with special effects were totally underwhelming when mutilated by the "artistic" back and forth skipping from past to present and back again.
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>Marines didn't dare get out of their holes at night much less yell at the top of their lungs else they would have been cut to sashimi by Japanese infiltrators.
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>The sterotypes were horrible. While Ira was a tragic native american in life succumbing to alcoholism and probable PTSD, the only stereotypical prejudice he didn't endure in the movie was having to stand next to a cigar store indian. Clint missed out on putting a scene in about the prejudice against Black troops too, who by the way, had been allowed to enlist in the Marines by that time in the war due to shortage of men.
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>The movie failed on so many levels. I know that Letters from Iwo Jima will bet cudos over seas, because any movie showing US military men getting wacked plays well. The same fanaticism and sacrifice for a demi-god displayed by the Japanese is still with us today. I wonder if Eastwood will make THAT connection in the second part of his epic, or just protray them as tragically misled victims. Probably the latter.
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Terrible
To put it in short, this movie is just terrible. I saw some of Clint Eastwood's other films, which I thought was of high standard. There was no character development in this movie, no depth and it follows a typical recipe, which so many other war movies followed in the past. It leaves no excitement and doesn't stay in one's thoughts afterwards.