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I just finished Flags of Our Fathers.
I hadn't seen it before.
I have mixed feelings on it. I sorta liked it, I sorta didn't.
There were some strong performances in it, but the story as a whole seemed disjointed to me. I think it should have been told in a linear manner. Maybe it would have made more sense. But the jumping back and forth was confusing to me.
And, for the record, I didn't hate Ryan Phillipe in this one. He was alright and like iSm was saying to me earlier tonight, he was one of the few likable characters in this film.
The whole "who was in the picture and who wasn't" was also confusing to me. Too much info crammed in in a manner that seemed not well thought out.
I think Letters from Iwo Jima was a far superior film. It also feels like both were directed by two different people, which it wasn't.
Since both were shot close together and by the same director, it would have been nice to see a bit of overlapping between the two films. But there wasn't much except the suicides in the tunnels.
I give it a 2 and a half star rating. I'd give Iwo Jima 4 stars.
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