I remember disliking it. Don't even remember why.
Also that brad pit in a tank one too.
It was so predictable and edgy, it felt like a discount ww2 kino.
T.hanks on a boat was kinda boring too and boring T.hanks is usually good but not in ww2
>T.hanks on a boat was kinda boring too and boring T.hanks is usually good but not in ww2
Are you talking about SPR? Hanks was on a boat for like 4 seconds in that movie. Also not boring.
homosexual Christ cuck refuses to use guns in a war whete the whole poont is to kill people. >b-but, muh sAvIng LiVes
no, if he just decided to learn how to shoot, he wouldn't have been deadweight during the initial assault and would have kept some of his comrades from getting dismembered by the opposing force. it's moronic as a whole, especially since he ended up delaying that last assault because muh prayers. homosexual would have had a better chracter arc if he learned that Christianity is nothing but a load of horseshit, and ended up becoming the solider who survived th longest and had the highest kill count amongst his company
Yeah but then that would be a different movie not based on a real person. You can’t just change his character arc away from what actually happened in real life.
so the movie is deemed good purely because of historical accuracy? Doss' story should not have been adapted in the first place. why make a movie a pacifistic homosexual who STILL decided to join the war? because of that, many young impressionable men of gen z and gen alpha will end up being even more of a basedboy and wrongfully give aid to the enemies when WW3 inevitably happens. plus, the whole christian thing that Doss has going should have been a glaring "do not adapt this" sign as that damn religion should not have any more representation in media than they already have.
so the movie is deemed good purely because of historical accuracy? Doss' story should not have been adapted in the first place. why make a movie a pacifistic homosexual who STILL decided to join the war? because of that, many young impressionable men of gen z and gen alpha will end up being even more of a basedboy and wrongfully give aid to the enemies when WW3 inevitably happens. plus, the whole christian thing that Doss has going should have been a glaring "do not adapt this" sign as that damn religion should not have any more representation in media than they already have.
there were some really dumb parts. vince vaugh using half a corpse as a shield and hipfiring a BAR with the other arm comes to mind
it was a decent movie imo
Might get flak for this but re-watched Band of Brothers after not seeing it for atleast 10-15 years. Didn't enjoy it that much second time through. Some parts were good, others were meh. It felt very short but the last time I watched it I was a kid so maybe that's why I felt it was longer.
Full metal jacket
Saving private Ryan
Not a movie but band of brothers also sucked
I just finished watching BoB a few days ago I really don't get why everyone and their mother hype it up as a 10/10 series nothing was clicking for me
Battle sequences were okay I guess
I personally fought that it was too hollywood-esque, particularly that scene where I think Speer runs through German lines, twice, without so much as an injury
Except that a BAR M1922 weighs 24 pounds, you would have to be phenomenally strong to fire one one-handed while holding 70 pounds of dead body in your off hand.
They were speedrunning as a European Global Imperial power despite starting 300 years too late so had to ignore any ethic and morality tech trees to catch up.
>Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge is much more than a war movie. Titled after the 1945 Battle of Okinawa on the Japanese bluff known as Hacksaw Ridge, it tells the true-life story of Desmond Doss, a religious conscientious objector who nevertheless saved dozens of fellow soldiers’ lives while serving as a battlefield medic during the final days of World War II. Doss received a Medal of Honor from President Truman, but, ironically, the movie is the work of a famously Christian filmmaker who was publicly excoriated by the mainstream (i.e., secular) media, which lashed out against his 2004 The Passion of the Christ (discussed in my 2014 NRO article “The Year the Culture Broke”).
>With Hacksaw Ridge, Gibson openly responds to what has now become a routine character-assassination attempt by the media; he envisions the Battle of Okinawa as a test of morality and religious faith. Doss, a Virginia-born Seventh-day Adventist (portrayed by Andrew Garfield), claimed conscientious-objector status based on his personal Christian pacifism. Gibson shows how that pacifism derived from Doss’s background: Having grown up as a violence-addicted son of a bitterly traumatized WWI veteran (Hugo Weaving), Doss as an adult becomes a devout pacifist who clashes with military tradition to win his right to service. What he encountered in fulfilling his faith and duty is movingly depicted in the film, but it’s the emotional undercurrent that makes Hacksaw Ridge extraordinary.
>Gibson disposes of the “anti-war film” cliché with a full-throttle War Is Hell scenario. His scenes of carnage and savagery have nearly surreal intensity. The black-gray, smoke-and-flames imagery of rugged terrain, bodies charred and mutilated in deadly piles, plus head-banging artillery noises and painful human howls express fascination and revulsion. It is a conscientiously masculine vision — male aggression chastened by a sense of horror. Obviously, this is not documentary horror remembered from actual wartime experience. Rather, Gibson vents the ambivalence he probably acquired as a thinking macho (being both a star of violent ’80s and ’90s spectacles and a perceptive, ambitious artiste). Hacksaw Ridge is sensitized by a wounded man’s humility and a thinking man’s sincerity. Thus, the film’s vision of Hell on Earth has peculiar authority.
>It’s clear that Gibson is fully conscious of man’s inhumanity to man, maybe more than anyone else in Hollywood. He didn’t have to actually participate in combat to learn about human savagery; the mainstream media taught him that. But alongside the film’s dramatization of Doss’s family life and his courtship of Dorothy (Teresa Palmer), the lovely, bold-spirited nurse he married, Hacksaw Ridge anatomizes military aggression and its complex links to masculine character. Garfield’s Doss uncannily recalls Anthony Perkins’s pacifist performance in Friendly Persuasion. Other, variously wounded American GIs are memorably etched by Vince Vaughn, Sam Worthington, and Luke Bracey as men who sacrifice themselves while dealing with personal issues. (These conflicts are fleetly dramatized by screenwriters Robert Schenkken and Andrew Knight.)
>Hacksaw Ridge provides a long-awaited cultural rejoinder to the violence in Saving Private Ryan, Steven Spielberg’s culture-shaking tribute to WWII martyrdom. But Spielberg’s film needn’t be the definitive WWII movie, and neither should Terence Malick’s The Thin Red Line, Clint Eastwood’s diptych Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jimo, or Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds. Gibson forsakes the self-righteousness of those films and provides the substance — the reproof of violence — absent from all those movies so shamelessly, inescapably geeked-up by the boyish excitement of fighting and death. (Doss’s father complains that his mother teaches “the world is a soft and gentle place,” then upbraids his son’s timidity: “You’ve got to sit and think and pray about everything. Look at you!”) The original Mad Max finally grows up when Doss daringly rescues wounded Americans from the Japanese onslaught: “Please, God, help me get one more.”
>It’s odd to see a contemporary film that depicts war without partisan second-guessing or political rebuke. Hacksaw Ridge has a patriotic valiance and dauntless candor that recall Sergeant York, the 1941 Gary Cooper film. But that was from a different era, less hostile to the idea of American military effort. Gibson defies today’s secular hostility by proffering Doss’s principled certitude.
>Hacksaw Ridge is not an official history of WWII; its visionary, emotional force recalls the essence of cinematic heroism. Gibson’s battle scenes evoke D. W. Griffith’s great “War’s Peace” tableau in The Birth of a Nation and turns its sorrow, sarcasm and heartfelt pacifism into a War Is Hell epic. A montage contrasting Japanese seppuku with American faith is even-handed history and spiritually profound. For thoughtful viewers Hacksaw Ridge will loom larger than Doss’s story; it’s also Gibson’s personal Hell on Earth reprisal to the war on one man’s convictions.
When i first watched this I thought it was ridiculous. I didn't know it was based on true events and he saved more people in real life. Got no idea how he survived, really does see like divine intervention
we're waiting for you to start
and why is Hacksaw bad again?
It's kino.
I remember disliking it. Don't even remember why.
Also that brad pit in a tank one too.
It was so predictable and edgy, it felt like a discount ww2 kino.
T.hanks on a boat was kinda boring too and boring T.hanks is usually good but not in ww2
>T.hanks on a boat was kinda boring too and boring T.hanks is usually good but not in ww2
Are you talking about SPR? Hanks was on a boat for like 4 seconds in that movie. Also not boring.
no, tom hanks has a whole movie hunting submarines as a boat captain
That movie was utter shit.
I was almost impressed at how fricking bad that movie was honestly
Fury was terrible and does not hold up on repeat viewings. Hacksaw Ridge is a solid 3 star war film.
When he said this line I murdered my family because I was so ashamed that they were watching me watch this movie. Cringe incarnate.
homosexual Christ cuck refuses to use guns in a war whete the whole poont is to kill people.
>b-but, muh sAvIng LiVes
no, if he just decided to learn how to shoot, he wouldn't have been deadweight during the initial assault and would have kept some of his comrades from getting dismembered by the opposing force. it's moronic as a whole, especially since he ended up delaying that last assault because muh prayers. homosexual would have had a better chracter arc if he learned that Christianity is nothing but a load of horseshit, and ended up becoming the solider who survived th longest and had the highest kill count amongst his company
Yeah but then that would be a different movie not based on a real person. You can’t just change his character arc away from what actually happened in real life.
so the movie is deemed good purely because of historical accuracy? Doss' story should not have been adapted in the first place. why make a movie a pacifistic homosexual who STILL decided to join the war? because of that, many young impressionable men of gen z and gen alpha will end up being even more of a basedboy and wrongfully give aid to the enemies when WW3 inevitably happens. plus, the whole christian thing that Doss has going should have been a glaring "do not adapt this" sign as that damn religion should not have any more representation in media than they already have.
basedboy^^^ damn typo
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this
I had to rewatch Point Break (2015) to feel better afterwards
there were some really dumb parts. vince vaugh using half a corpse as a shield and hipfiring a BAR with the other arm comes to mind
it was a decent movie imo
Hacksaw is one of the better war movies tho, why are you saying it's bad?
Might get flak for this but re-watched Band of Brothers after not seeing it for atleast 10-15 years. Didn't enjoy it that much second time through. Some parts were good, others were meh. It felt very short but the last time I watched it I was a kid so maybe that's why I felt it was longer.
I think you're just getting older. You might want to get into literature.
I just finished watching BoB a few days ago I really don't get why everyone and their mother hype it up as a 10/10 series nothing was clicking for me
Battle sequences were okay I guess
I personally fought that it was too hollywood-esque, particularly that scene where I think Speer runs through German lines, twice, without so much as an injury
I much prefer Generation Kill
Generation kill shits all over Band of Brothers and The Pacific
I mean he actually did that with multiple eye witnesses
I've tried to watch Band of Brothers for the first time and I turned it off after 10 minutes because I couldn't stand the amount of pathos.
>pathos
yep, Spielberg
It loses its charm when you grow up and realise that the allies were the bad guys
It's too romanticized. It's like watching a soap opera jerking itself off. Also this
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Full metal jacket
Saving private Ryan
Not a movie but band of brothers also sucked
>Full metal jacket
Oh, yes.
Saving Private Ryan. Kitschy saccharine army propaganda.
Made up my mind on it in one of the opening scenes, where the israelite cries over the SS dagger
filtered
it pulls me out of the film whenever I see this extremely high-maintenance haircut on a character in an active/gritty role
What was Gibson thinking with this scene?
Man that was some badass shit, Mel Gibson knows how to make kino
Except that a BAR M1922 weighs 24 pounds, you would have to be phenomenally strong to fire one one-handed while holding 70 pounds of dead body in your off hand.
this dude doesn't lift
kinda looks cool but one should be aware bullets go though multiple bodies
High calibre rifle rounds immediately disintegrates on impact you moron
Rambo
Why were the japanese so evil during WW2?
anime sucked back then so they had nothing to calm their inner demons
They were speedrunning as a European Global Imperial power despite starting 300 years too late so had to ignore any ethic and morality tech trees to catch up.
they were all high on meth, no joke
Shinto and race supremacy are genuinely an evil combination
If the indians every got industrious it'd be the same
>If the indians every got industrious
luckily for us, that won't happen anytime soon
They're bugs who deserve to be bombed again.
Thin Red Line was boring. I don't know why everyone jerks it off so much.
The word pretentious was made to describe that tripe. Could hardly make it through half an hour.
it felt cheaply made and produced, it was made for tv
felt bad for hugo weaving
>Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge is much more than a war movie. Titled after the 1945 Battle of Okinawa on the Japanese bluff known as Hacksaw Ridge, it tells the true-life story of Desmond Doss, a religious conscientious objector who nevertheless saved dozens of fellow soldiers’ lives while serving as a battlefield medic during the final days of World War II. Doss received a Medal of Honor from President Truman, but, ironically, the movie is the work of a famously Christian filmmaker who was publicly excoriated by the mainstream (i.e., secular) media, which lashed out against his 2004 The Passion of the Christ (discussed in my 2014 NRO article “The Year the Culture Broke”).
>With Hacksaw Ridge, Gibson openly responds to what has now become a routine character-assassination attempt by the media; he envisions the Battle of Okinawa as a test of morality and religious faith. Doss, a Virginia-born Seventh-day Adventist (portrayed by Andrew Garfield), claimed conscientious-objector status based on his personal Christian pacifism. Gibson shows how that pacifism derived from Doss’s background: Having grown up as a violence-addicted son of a bitterly traumatized WWI veteran (Hugo Weaving), Doss as an adult becomes a devout pacifist who clashes with military tradition to win his right to service. What he encountered in fulfilling his faith and duty is movingly depicted in the film, but it’s the emotional undercurrent that makes Hacksaw Ridge extraordinary.
Pretty sure the media got mad at him for saying Black person and israelite
>Gibson disposes of the “anti-war film” cliché with a full-throttle War Is Hell scenario. His scenes of carnage and savagery have nearly surreal intensity. The black-gray, smoke-and-flames imagery of rugged terrain, bodies charred and mutilated in deadly piles, plus head-banging artillery noises and painful human howls express fascination and revulsion. It is a conscientiously masculine vision — male aggression chastened by a sense of horror. Obviously, this is not documentary horror remembered from actual wartime experience. Rather, Gibson vents the ambivalence he probably acquired as a thinking macho (being both a star of violent ’80s and ’90s spectacles and a perceptive, ambitious artiste). Hacksaw Ridge is sensitized by a wounded man’s humility and a thinking man’s sincerity. Thus, the film’s vision of Hell on Earth has peculiar authority.
>It’s clear that Gibson is fully conscious of man’s inhumanity to man, maybe more than anyone else in Hollywood. He didn’t have to actually participate in combat to learn about human savagery; the mainstream media taught him that. But alongside the film’s dramatization of Doss’s family life and his courtship of Dorothy (Teresa Palmer), the lovely, bold-spirited nurse he married, Hacksaw Ridge anatomizes military aggression and its complex links to masculine character. Garfield’s Doss uncannily recalls Anthony Perkins’s pacifist performance in Friendly Persuasion. Other, variously wounded American GIs are memorably etched by Vince Vaughn, Sam Worthington, and Luke Bracey as men who sacrifice themselves while dealing with personal issues. (These conflicts are fleetly dramatized by screenwriters Robert Schenkken and Andrew Knight.)
>Hacksaw Ridge provides a long-awaited cultural rejoinder to the violence in Saving Private Ryan, Steven Spielberg’s culture-shaking tribute to WWII martyrdom. But Spielberg’s film needn’t be the definitive WWII movie, and neither should Terence Malick’s The Thin Red Line, Clint Eastwood’s diptych Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jimo, or Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds. Gibson forsakes the self-righteousness of those films and provides the substance — the reproof of violence — absent from all those movies so shamelessly, inescapably geeked-up by the boyish excitement of fighting and death. (Doss’s father complains that his mother teaches “the world is a soft and gentle place,” then upbraids his son’s timidity: “You’ve got to sit and think and pray about everything. Look at you!”) The original Mad Max finally grows up when Doss daringly rescues wounded Americans from the Japanese onslaught: “Please, God, help me get one more.”
>It’s odd to see a contemporary film that depicts war without partisan second-guessing or political rebuke. Hacksaw Ridge has a patriotic valiance and dauntless candor that recall Sergeant York, the 1941 Gary Cooper film. But that was from a different era, less hostile to the idea of American military effort. Gibson defies today’s secular hostility by proffering Doss’s principled certitude.
>Hacksaw Ridge is not an official history of WWII; its visionary, emotional force recalls the essence of cinematic heroism. Gibson’s battle scenes evoke D. W. Griffith’s great “War’s Peace” tableau in The Birth of a Nation and turns its sorrow, sarcasm and heartfelt pacifism into a War Is Hell epic. A montage contrasting Japanese seppuku with American faith is even-handed history and spiritually profound. For thoughtful viewers Hacksaw Ridge will loom larger than Doss’s story; it’s also Gibson’s personal Hell on Earth reprisal to the war on one man’s convictions.
Anything Clit Eastwood was involved in
When i first watched this I thought it was ridiculous. I didn't know it was based on true events and he saved more people in real life. Got no idea how he survived, really does see like divine intervention
Shitty dialogue, clichés galore and bizarre shifts in tone throughout the movie. Just awful.
Good Morning Vietnam was ok but the humor really doesn't hold up for the most part