is anyone else excited as hell about these movies. the first entitled "flags for our fathers" tells the story of the six men who raised the flag at iwo jima and the effect it had on this country. the second film, is either called "Red Sun, Black Sand" or "Letters from Iwo Jima" and tells the story of the battle of Iwo Jima from the point of view from the Japonese. Clint eastwood directs, the film was co-wrote by william Broyles and paul Haggis, and produced by Eastwood, Steven Spielberg, and Rob Lorenz. It stars ryan Phillipe, Jaimie Bell, Paul Walker, Robert Patrick, and Barry Pepper. The Japonese film stars Ken Wantanabe.
Spielberg, Eastwood and Haggis are three of my favorite directors. Given what we know about Spielberg and Eastwood, we can expect a pretty strong and very sensitive anti-war film. The world can always use more of those.
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phillipe I can see working. Jaimie bell i'm a not so sure, and walker is definitely not what i would want for a serious war drama. hopefully there will be enough talent behind the camera to offset any lack of talent in front of it.
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Oh yeah. Behind the camera, the movie will be solid. I'm sure the cinematography will be beautiful, and an amazing story. I'm just worried about the actors.
yeah i heard that pisses all over SPR in lots of ways. I do love SPR too though, very touching in lots of ways.
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sounds good. after researching it a bit, it seems that the battle sequences are amazing beyond belief ( still two steps down from SPR) but it has the bonus of the koreans fighting at home rather than invading another country which ads to the power of the story. the negative is it is way to melodramatic, over-acted, and lacks the nuance and intelligence that propelled Saving Private Ryan into being one of the best movies of the 90's. All in all, looks pretty darn good. I'll give it a look. Thanks.
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whereas saving private ryan spunked its large budget in the 1st 20 minutes...brotherhood has a slow intro and then is pretty much relentless for almost 2 hours culminating in 2 massive battles...