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I wasn't quite as moved as some of the professional reviewers. Flags of Our Fathers is a moderately interesting war movie. It tells the story of the famous picture of the marines hoisting the flag at Iwo Jima. The film moves from present to past... from first person to third... all with relative ease. But the trick of doing that sort of story in my opinion is to make the audience care about the characters. I ended up not being emotionally invested in any of the three leads. And I think thats because after the initial storming of the beach (and some sporadic gun fights and flashbacks) there is not a lot of peril faced by the characters. The movie ends up being a sort of prose-y remembrance of a mans father... and a pseudo-documentary following the PR campaign launched by that photo. Im also not a hundred percent convinced that this photo saved the war effort.... I would have to believe it was slightly more complex than that. The film is acted well, directed well... its technically amazing... but the story is only so-so. And thats why I can only give it a mild recommendation.Vollständige Rezension lesen
It is the most memorable photograph of World War II, among the greatest pictures ever taken. The winner of the Pulitzer Prize for photography and one of the most-reproduced images in the history of photography, the picture has inspired postage stamps, posters, the covers of countless magazines and newspapers, and even the Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, Virginia. "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima," a picture taken by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945 depicts five Marines and one Navy Corpsman raising the U.S. flag on Mount Suribachi. The image served as a counterpoint for one of the most vicious battles of the war: the fight to take Iwo Jima, a desolate island of black sand barely eight square miles that would prove a tipping point in the Pacific campaign. Lasting more than a month, the fight was a bloody, drawn-out conflict that might have turned the American public against the war entirely, had it not been for the photo, which was taken and published five days into the battle. The photograph made heroes of the men in the picture as the three surviving flag-raisers were returned to the U.S. and made into props in the government’s Seventh War Bond Tour. Uncomfortable with their new celebrity, the flag-raisers considered the real heroes to be the men who died on Iwo Jima; still, the American public held them up as the best America had to offer, the supermen who conquered the Japanese… ...and then, just as quickly as it had arrived, the glory faded. For two of the surviving flag-raisers, life became a series of compromises and disappointments; for the third, happiness came only by shutting off his war experiences and rarely speaking of them ever again. "Flags of Our Fathers" is a human drama of friendship and love, sacrifice and manipulation, set against the violent conflict of the battle of Iwo Jima. Two-time Academy Award®-winning director Clint Eastwood focuses equally on the war and home, crosscutting between the viciousness of the battle and the manufactured propaganda campaign and careful manipulation of the image that followed – issues that remain prevalent today. As "Flags of Our Fathers" shows how the photograph became the very beginning of celebrity worship, the film questions our need to create and celebrate heroes, sometimes at a cost. DreamWorks Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures present a Malpaso/Amblin Entertainment production, "Flags of Our Fathers." Directed by Clint Eastwood, the screenplay is by William Broyles, Jr. and Paul Haggis, based on the book by James Bradley with Ron Powers. Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg, and Robert Lorenz produce the film. --© DreamWorks Pictures and Warner Bros. PicturesVollständige Rezension lesen
The Blue-ray did not work with my Samsung Blue-ray player. I have never had a problem with any other Blue-ray or DVD disk. Very disappointing.
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Excellent film but not all factual according to 2016 military finding.
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Good movie! Smart buy. Let Ira Hayes rest in peace
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It was a very good movie. I would recommend it for any ww2 movie buff.
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Powerful WWII movie.
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One of the greatest war movies made
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Great story, good acting!
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Blu Ray as described!
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