Great Flick

Rating: 10/10 (29 July 2012)

I read a few of the negative reviews here and they are way off the mark. Aside from some of the relationship development between DeNiro and Streep that appears to have hit the cutting room floor due to length, I do not see this as a "war movie" but about friends and the impact war has on them - a bunch of hard working, hard playing steelworkers form 60's PA (something I don't think exists anymore in the US of A). I saw this at the theater as a kid expecting it to be more of a war flick than it turned out to be (meaning more battlefield action) but having seen it over and over again as an adult, it has grown to be one of my favorite flicks of all time - occasionally topping "my list" as number 1. Watch the "segments" as they are intended and see how powerful this film really is - I know there have been complaints about the length and the first segment being too long, but always remember this is a movie about friendship and best friends and not the a war flick in the classical sense.