Fabulous Movie - I loved it!!!

Rating: 10/10 (10 June 2001)

To some of the critics who absolutely trashed this movie, saying it was so fake and cheesy, I don't understand how they can praise Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. It had people flying all over the place!!!!
It is sad to note that many of the critics are simply clueless about WWII-And those who slammed this movie's love story - it makes me wonder if they are this meanspirited and critical in their own love life (or lack of). Many of the critics never once mentioned feeling any compassion or empathy for the victims of the attack.
See this movie. It is a Hollywood movie, not a DOCUMENTARY!!! Transform yourself back to a time when love of country, familiy and honor were an integral part of the moral character of America. A time when we did practically worship our Presidents (this was before Vietnman,Watergate,Clinton/Monica), a time when courtship was very innocent between men and women (ask your grandparents!). A time before rap music, the Internet, tabloid journalism, and political correctness.
The setting for this movie was spectacular - the scene of Ben Affleck standing by the train with a fog rolling around as Kate walks up to him, was beautifully portrayed. The hospital scenes and the music scores were haunting.
For those who are clueless about WWII, let me help you separate Hollywood from History:

Do an Internet search (or try Amazon) on the 'the rape of Nanking' the Chinese city that the Japanese military invaded where they slaughtered 300,000 civilians, old people and children and raping and killing about 20,000 women. The year was 1937, before Pearl Harbor. (Warning-you may see very GRAPHIC, UNEDITED PICTURES of the atrocities).

Do a search on the 'Bataan Death March' and read about how the brutal and sadistic Japanese military AT THAT TIME treated their prisoners of war.

When Hitler's second man in command was captured afer WWII, Hermann Goering, he was absolutely stunned - "How can a country full of cooks, clerks and farmers defeat the most powerful army in the world?" yes, friends, WWII was fought mostly by TEENAGERS, not men. If you want to read about some real heroes, not Hollywood heroes, look no further than our own military history because it is full of them. Read about the Doolittle raid, yes that is true!!! And Cuba Gooding's character, in real life, was later killed in the war when the Japanese blew up his ship in the Pacific.

Japan's leaders must have thought the same thing as the Germans. Before the island of Tarawa was attacked by the Americans, the Japanese general had boasted that "a million men cannot take Tarawa in a thousand years." The Marines took it in three days.
See this movie in honor of a father, grandfather, uncle, etc. who has or is serving in the military. Celebrate the heroism of the incredible generation who defended and died for our country.
On the island of Iwo Jima was an American cemetary with 6,800 graves, mostly teenaged American boys, mounds with crosses and stars. Thousands of families would have no body to bid farewell. A message chiseled outside the cemetary reads: When you go home Tell them for us and say For your tomorrow We gave our today