If Hal Moore says that Randy Wallace got it right, that's good enough for me.

Rating: Null/10 (17 September 2002)

After seeing "We Were Soldiers" on DVD, watching the docu "Getting it Right" and reading some of the comments on this site, I wonder if we all saw the same movie. Personally, I thought it was a very good, moving film. Not perfect, of course (no film is perfect), but good nonetheless. I do "get it." Apparently some of us don't.
I also wonder if not everyone realizes that this movie is based on a book about a REAL battle in a REAL war with characters based on REAL people who died. Of course, it has been fictionalized and dramatized, but isn't it trivializing the deaths of these young men to even refer to their celluloid depictions as "cliches?" What we see may be just a movie, but a whole lot of American soldiers died for what some might say was no good reason. Nothing will change that. This film, as I see it, is a tribute to them and the ones who survived.
If Hal Moore says that Randy Wallace got it right, that's good enough for me.