Pretty good movie, alot of action in it, but I dunno it didnt seem as emotional as the end of Saving Private Ryan. Still a very good movie though.
Just saw We were soldiers
My friend brought that movie over to my house to watch, but we ended up watching A Bronx Tale, 'cuz I just got that for Christmas and said it was better (even though they're entirely different subject matters and I'd never seen We Were Soldiers). Then we never got to watch We Were Soldiers, and now he's sick and vomitting all over himself and will probably (not) die so I guess I'm sad now 'cuz I didn't get to watch that movie.
Band of Brothers Please! ?:thumbup: ?:thumbup:
band of brothers was excellent. i thought it caputered the emotion of was as many good books have, and was excitiing as well. only thing wrong with it was it took soo fucking long to do anything!! i.e. on a truck. 1/2 hour later still on a truck and so on.. ffs
I will never view We Were Soldiers as anything more than an action flick. Now, that's not to say it was a bad action flick. It was god damn excellent IMO. Especially the last fight scene with the enemies getting blown apart in utter silence. Man, that was pretty fucking cool.
But it didn't truly capture the essence of war, if you get what I'm saying. When somebody got killed, I said "Well, that sucks", but I never got more involved than that. Saving Private Ryan and Band Of Brothers had me gripping my seat and screaming at the TV. I yelled at the people on the screen, telling them to "Get the hell out of there" and "Shoot the motherfucker". I damn near cried when somebody met their demise or was taken out because of a serious injury. I felt as if I had bonded with them.
We Were Soldiers didn't have any of that. A small feeling of sorrow came and left in an instant. There was a lot of blood and a lot of realism (Well, I don't exactly recall the gooks being the ones who ran around in the bare open). This has a lot to do with the lack of character development. The same problem the Black Hawk Down movie suffered from. The movie attempts to make you feel for them by showing that a lot of these people have families and even children. Well, that's great and all. Hope he doesn't get shot, m'dear. But that's not gonna cut it. You only really get to know a lot of these people right when they drop in from the choppers, and from then on the focus is more on bullets and explosions rather than the soldiers.
There was also no event that took place which emphasized on pain and sadness. The medic's death in Saving Private Ryan is a good example of this. After experiencing war with him for such a long time, you've started to like this guy. And your fondness of him isn't apparent until you see his buddies try and save him as blood constantly leaks out of the holes in his body. Things get worse and worse until they all agree that they have to put him down themselves to spare him the pain and misery. By that time, you feel like a load of crap.
Where was that in We Were Soldiers? I mean, there was that one dude who literally had his skin fried off because of napalm, but as gruesome as it was, the effect wasn't the same. Again, the lack of character development.
Hmm... Maybe I'm being a wee bit too critical, so I'll just finish this.
I enjoyed the movie a lot. I'd gladly see it again. But it's not the war movie I'd see if I wanted a deeper experience.