too corny,unoriginal and schmaltzy!

Rating: Null/10 (31 July 2005)

Just because it is true story it doesn't have to be great.I realize Hollywood, now more than ever, wants to do its patriotic duty and pay respects to those who lost their lives for the Americans. Or do they? When a movie has nothing interesting to say about war, does it really serve a purpose? Does it really have to reflect what happened then in a schmaltzy patriotic way? I realize that in the first 45 minutes of the movie there was no action at all. It was just like getting prepared for a mawkish drama but we should keep in our mind that you can't create a war drama without action this is not a movie on a case like abortion or rape and a war movie is supposed to be something that affects the life of a community not a an individual. You can't just reflect the zeitgeist of war-torn families by showing taxi drivers who deliver telegrams from the soldiers out there? You can't just tell about war by using corny lines! You can't just look at a war in one-sided Americanism? To reflect a war by imagining the soul of two sides you are not supposed to reflect the lines of the Viatnemese commander in a second in the end and then saying the photographer son you gotta do it you gotta tell what these soldiers did for their country? What about the Viatnemese soldiers and what they did for their own country in their own lands? If "We Were Soldiers" was the first war movie ever made, it would be a great one. All those men from different walks of life, thrown together in an inhuman war, while their wives wait for them back home -- such drama and pathos! But think about when "Full Metal Jacket" was produced? It is highly time to throw Vietnam aside and think of something else more original than that! Well let's say "We Were Soldiers" is just too Corny emotional schmaltzy "Black Hawk Down" with a more heart that's all! If you just wanna see it by renting a DVD don't really bother. Go and rent "Full Metal Jacket" you are gonna like that original one which looks at lives in objective ways.