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Studio: PHILLIPPE,RYAN
Catalog: DVD
Release date: 2008-06-03
Media: Blu-ray
released in theatres: 2006-10-20
Running time in minutes: 132
DVD aspect ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Format: AC-3, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
DVD Region code: 1
released in theatres: 2006-10-20
Ean: 0097361235202
Upc: 097361235202

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Director:

Clint Eastwood

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Actors:

Ryan Phillippe	see more Dvds with Ryan Phillippe
Jesse Bradford	see more Dvds with Jesse Bradford
Adam Beach	see more Dvds with Adam Beach
John Benjamin Hickey	see more Dvds with John Benjamin Hickey

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Written on March 23, 2008
Summary: I Am Not Confused
But Clint Eastwood may be. In his last several directorial efforts, Eastwood has concentrated on pleasing what he perceives to be a modern "hip" audience rather than on presenting a fair and coherent narrative. He underestimates the intelligent viewer's willingness and ability to think for themselves. Again and again, Eastwood overrelies on popular cynicism and simplistic emotional snapshots.

Flags of Our Fathers is a mess. If FoOF were a person, it would have multiple personality disorder. Is it a rousing, awe inspiring action flick? An inspiring tale of grunts persevering in the face of death and fear? A heartstring story of a soldier's failure to adjust to postwar society? A cynical condemnation of how the military uses and discards it's own? Poorly edited, simplistically thought out and morally confused, FoOF meanders all over the cinematic map and tries too hard to be all things to all viewers. Eastwood: pick an overall tone and go with it.

Eastwood lays on the cynicism concerning the gov't/military with a trowel. Alas, real life is messy. America was at war and in the fight of its life. Fabricating a kodak moment to sell war bonds is, in itself, cynical and morally wrong but hardly the grievous offense Eastwood makes it out to be. More like a little white lie that went to a good cause. Eastwood makes a mountain out of a molehill by making it seem as if the military callously ruined these young mens' lives by forcing them to "live a lie" and cruelly deceived a gullible American public. Hardly. While it is entirely possible the servicemen felt dubious about being false heroes, it is unlikely they would have been so agonized by the temporal false fame. More likely, they would have understood that they were bit players in a much larger ballgame. Sometimes a sacrifice bunt is more helpful than a home run.

Adam Beach is the only actor who is given the material to render an excellent performance and he rises admirably to the occasion. The others seem unconvinced or deer-in-the-headlights. Eastwood tries so hard to be postenlightment too-cool-for-school, he sells everyone short, including himself as an artist.

Written on March 21, 2008
Summary: Even Heroes Can Be Casualties. . .
Of the 6 men shown raising the flag in Joe Rosenthal's famous photogtraph, PFC Ira Hayes is the Marine at the very rear. At the end of the Iwo Jima campaign, he, Navy corpsman John "Doc" Bradley and PFC Rene Gagnon were the only survivors of the men who raised Old Glory on Suribachi. We know the story; that picture was so compelling that the government whisked away the survivors and sent them cross-country on a bond-tour, being hailed as heroes from one coast to the other. The goal of the drive was to raise $14 billion or else the USA would run out of money. This particular drive raised over $20 billion and it was largely due to the dog-and-pony show these three men were constantly subjected to. These men were exploited as heroes, a label that none were comfortable with. How could they be heroes with all the dead and maimed that resulted from the carnage of Iwo Jima ?

With much the same effectiveness as he showed with the companion film "Letters From Iwo Jima," Director Clint Eastwood shows the very human struggles or otherwise ordinary people who answered their nation's call without any quest for glory or reward. They wanted to do their duty and for the three flag-raisers, the bond tour became that duty. In the end, that is what makes these individuals heroes. . .

Written on March 20, 2008
Summary: a decent film about the greatest generation
I wasn't blown away by this film. I thought it could have used some editing in places, no stand-out acting for me, served its purpose & told its story. I was kind of distracted by how goody-goody the main character was, starts feeling too cliche & wondered how that set with the descendants of the other less-than-valiant service members that hoisted the flag or from that company. On the other hand, I'm happy to watch any film made about this war & the sacrifices made. Definitely pulled my heartstrings & the checkbook to send a little something off to the Veterans.

Written on March 7, 2008
Summary: Not Perfect
If the movie hadn't have flopped, would Adam Beach now have an Oscar on his mantelpiece or sitting on his toilet tank or wherever he wanted to keep it? I vote yes, his performance as Ira Hayes is indelibly seared into my brain pan now, and he doesn't even have that much screen time. In fact Adam Beach's performance is bigger than the movie and maybe that's a bad thing, but look at La Vie En Rose, in which Marion Cotillard is giving a fantastic performance in a bad movie and she still managed to snag that Oscar.

Anyhow Beach is sublime and almost makes me interested enough in the "real Ira Hayes" to read a biography of him. His life seems tragic, the way everyone calls him "Chief" and then makes a mockery of his human rights with the next breath. The sergeant summons him, "Get your red assright over here, Hayes!" an expression I've never heard before but maybe native Americans get this sort of abuse every day. After the war is over he has one job, to sell war bonds by appearing at mass rallies, and eventually his love if alcohol burns him out completely, that and the memory of seeing too many ghastly things on that faraway Pacific island. Eastwood photographs him as though he were Christ at Calvary, stumbling around towards other, divine place beyond this earth.

We laughed though to see Tom McCarthy as the narrator, the journalist putting together the big inside story of Iwo Jima, when now we see the same actor on THE WIRE as Scott Templeton, the lazy journalist without scruples who just makes up his sources willy-nilly; if he can't find a great quote he just makes it up and ascribes it to an imaginary figure. Sort of gives FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS a new light!

Written on March 6, 2008
Summary: dissapointed in film
After watching "letters from Iwo Jima" I expected this movie to be the American version of the battle at Iwo Jima. I expected the movie to tell the story to be told in chronological order of the battle followed by the story of the bond drive made possible by the famous photo of the flag raising. After about 25 minutes Eastwood stopped telling about the battle & started telling about the bond drive by 3 men who raised the flag. After this the battle scenes were basically flashbacks about how the men who raised the flag were killed at Iwo. If I didn't know the history before watching this movie I would not have known who won the battle after watching this movie.
Pete

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Our price	$19.95	$19.95	$10.49	$14.99	$24.95	$26.99
List price	$29.99	$34.99	$14.98	$19.98	$38.95	$29.99
Lowest used price	$9.99	$15.29	$0.70	$2.33	$10.50	$0.74
Lowest new price	$11.29	$16.95	$4.05	$2.96	$17.00	$5.07
Collectible price	-	$35.89	-	$27.98	$39.99	$29.99
Catalog	DVD	DVD	DVD	DVD	DVD	DVD
Release date	2008-06-03	2007-05-22	2007-02-06	2007-05-22	2006-12-19	2007-01-09
Media	Blu-ray	Blu-ray	DVD	DVD	Blu-ray	DVD
released in theatres	2006-10-20	2007-01-12	2006-09-08	2006	2006-09-22	2006-08-04
Running time in minutes	132	140	127	108	128	81
DVD aspect ratio	2.35:1	2.35:1	1.85:1	1.33:1	1.85:1	1.85:1
Audience Rating	R (Restricted)	R (Restricted)	R (Restricted)	R (Restricted)	PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)	R (Restricted)
Format	AC-3, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen	Closed-captioned, Color, Widescreen	AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC	AC-3, Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC	AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen	AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
DVD Region code	1	1	1	1	1	1
Ean	0097361235202	0085391112884	0025192884627	0012569736672	0043396173811	0786936718133
Upc	097361235202	085391112884	025192884627	012569736672	043396173811	786936718133
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