IN HARM'S WAY -- and why you should care

bruce marshall · **Joined:** Wed Mar 15, 2006 8:16 pm **Posts:** 775

[quote="GoblinScore"..I almost bought the DVD used for $5 last week, and something told me to put it back!

.... your post got me THAT much closer to finally watching this thing...

([/quote]

point one: smart decision
point two: that will be two and a half hours of your life you will never get back

take the five dollars you almost wasted on IHW and buy/rent John Ford's THEY WERE EXPENDABLE. tHE definitive film on the early days of the Pacific War

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GoblinScore · **Joined:** Thu Dec 15, 2005 10:44 pm **Posts:** 682

Oy vey, so much conflict!

Films should be heard not seen, don't watch IHW.....I'm going back to
Rota and klezmer music this weekend, bugger this Goldsmith business!

Douglass Fake · **Joined:** Sat Nov 19, 2005 3:48 pm **Posts:** 2773

It's silly to try and explain "nostalgia" favorites. They are what they are. I'm in the camp that loves movies and thinks anything with a cast like this one has deserves a view.

But going more personal, I like this movie a lot because it covers a part of war that generally doesn't get covered in detail. War at the command level. We've got lots of war movies with soldiers in battle, and lately they've gotten pretty fierce. But it's rare to find a movie about battle from the viewpoint of the officers and admirals and generals and other leaders who map up the attack plans, give the commands and whatnot. One look at the Saul Bass logo with that uniformed arm pointing tells all: it's a military movie about authority and command. It ain't perfect but it's still fascinating.
--Doug

Alan · **Posted:** Fri Jun 12, 2009 1:40 pm

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