Boring and pretentious

Rating: 1/10 (14 June 2010)

The most boring, over pretentious movie that I have ever seen. It had potential, but disappoints.
The cast is a who's who of the Hollywood ultra-left...Nick Nolte, John C. Reilly, Woody Harrelson, George Clooney, Sean Penn, etc., these guys playing soldiers is about as believable if they had used PeeWee Herman, Judge Joe Brown, Steve-O, Rush Limbaugh, and Clay Aiken...I watched this movie with my grandfather who was actually in Guadalcanal...he actually laughed out loud at some of the scenes and dialog and it wasn't because this movie had any humor, this was a guy who had to turn off Saving Private Ryan after about 10 minutes because the scenes reminded him too much of the war and he wasn't in the German campaign.
PROS - excellent cinematography, an unintentional hilarious scene of John Travolta playing a WWII military...uh actually all these half of the cast in military uniforms is funny CONS - almost 3 hours of boredom with endless pseudo-art dream sequences, flashbacks, and similar stuff.