Letters From Iwo Jima

User45701

http://www.jurassicpunk.com/movies/lettersfromiwojima.shtml

Looks Good what do u all think?
i just love the idea of fighting to the last man like "Iwo Jima" or "The battle of Thomapali" (aka 300)

TerrorFirmer

What...

http://imdb.com/title/tt0418689/ - Flags of our Fathers

http://imdb.com/title/tt0498380/ - Letters from Iwo Jima

did he make make those two movies together? I'd never even heard of Letters from Iwo Jima...

Crucifix

AFAIK it's two movies about the same battle, one about the americans, the other about the japanese.

Matthewthebig

Both directed by Clint Eastwood.

johnny_ultimate

I'll be going to see Iwo Jima could be a refreshing change.
However, a further flag waver - litreally this time - does not appeal to me at all.

TerrorFirmer

Are they both being released here simultaneously or what's the story?

User45701

i didnt see the first one, ill watch this because i like war movies that are not portrayed from the allied side

mike65

Neither has been released here yet! Flags is out 22nd Dec, while Letters is out in Feburary/March. Word has it Letters will be heavily Oscar nominated.

Mike.

qwertplaywert

are they both english?
i love eastwood..........meine fav directer after Joss Whedon

Sad Professor

AFAIK Eastwood started making Flags and then decided half-way through to make another film from the Japanese POV.

It's interesting how a couple of months ago everyone was dismissing Letters (at one point they weren't going to release it till next year) and Flags had all the oscar buzz, now its the other way around.

qwertplaywert, Letters is in Japanese with subtitles.

pbsuxok1znja4r

Sad Professor wrote:

Letters is in Japanese with subtitles.

Zis is good.

I look forward to both of these. Clint ain't one for patriotric schmaltz.

Pepe LeFrits

User45701 wrote:

Thomapali

:rolleyes:

I'm looking forward to this, the trailer looks good. I enjoyed Flags of our Fathers, even though it was overly sentimental and the closing message was delivered as subtly as a bludgeoning. Have to spell it out for the American audience, I suppose.

Skittlebrau

scouser.tommy wrote:

Clint ain't one for patriotric schmaltz.

He certainly gives it a go in Flags... though. It's pretty schmaltzy. Saying that it's not a bad film. Couple of really good performances. Am definitely interested in seeing the story from the Japanese perspective.

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monkeyfudge

If you're looking for a Japanese POV of the war then you needn't look any further than Hotaru no Haka

Although you could tell a similar story in any county that has been touched by war.

Heisenberg.

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BlitzKrieg

sorry, a little off topic but can you give me a few examples..? I struggle to name a few other than Der Untergang and Das Boot.

Cross of Iron
Stalingrad
All quiet on the Western Front
the eagle has landed
garve of the fireflies


just to name a few of the top of my head.

lodgepole

johnny_ultimate wrote:

I'll be going to see Iwo Jima could be a refreshing change.
However, a further flag waver - litreally this time - does not appeal to me at all.

I think the most interesting part of these two films is comparing the two perspectives. I wouldn't be that pushed about either of them individually (Eastwood hasn't directed a film in a while that i've really enjoyed) but as a double act I can't wait.

jank

Any release date yet for this film?

Pepe LeFrits

Finally got to see this. I wasn't disappointed.

johnny_ultimate

I really didnt like Iwo Jima at all. Followed my main problem with all Eastwood films: well made but extremely conventional. It wasnt a bad film per se, just found it extremely mediocre.
(That said, I usually hold a grudge against films that force a 'present day' prologue and epilogue upon us )

Sad Professor

I saw this last week. I thought it was quite good for it was actually. Eastwood wasn't trying to reinvent the genre or anything but it was a great straight ahead war movie. Mind you my expectations were quite low, Flags was a terrible mess imo.

johnny_ultimate, I share your distaste for book-endings, they're usually used for cheap sentimentality and can really ruin an otherwise good film, e.g. Saving Private Ryan, The Green Mile, The Notebook.

They can sometimes work however. I'm no fan of Titanic but I thought Cameron used the present day scenes quite well there.