Flags of da Fathers
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- alloyd0
I watched it last night too. After reading reviews, I was expecting more 'Saving Private Ryan', more action scenes. But, like you said, it started to become too sappy for me and more focused on those cheesy scenes about the flag and who posted it. The beginning was more focused on the war part, and little by little, it kept going back and forth with the whole flag thingy. I found myself fast forwarding to the war scenes. I get what they were trying to say but I thought it was a bit overkill to go into that much detail about that flag symbolism after spending the first 45 mins focusing on the war. I was like okay, I get it, now what? Now that I think of it, the war scenes weren't that great either, it didn't show much detail. You would only see what happened after a bomb or explosion, no in betweens. Also, if you think about how much time has passed during the war scenes, it feels like it only showcases an hour or so of the battle, not days or weeks. They preety much got to the island, overtook the hill, and that was it. Maybe I was just hoping for more Saving Private Ryan and seeing some faces getting ripped off by bullets.