"I saw Hacksaw ridge last night" Topic

And I thought it was pretty good.
Doss is a very inspirational fellow.

Of course, they had to have the Hollywood staple of pulling the pin to a grenade with your teeth a couple times…

Based on the previews, I thought they were going to portray the grenade kicking incident as some kind of "flying Ninja super soccer bicycle kick" kind of thing – but it really wasn't when you see the full scene. The grenade was on the ground when he kicked it – which is how it really went down.

I recommend it

You need to make sure that pin stays pulled…. ;)

Looking forward to seeing it .

For those who care, no profanity or sex scenes

No profanity in a ww2 movie? So it's fantasy, right?

No, it is a very real story. I really liked the documentary, which inspired the movie to be made.

I have never understood the new puritanism that says it's perfectly ok for kids to see gruesome violence, but not ok to hear a word they will encounter daily as an adult, or a piece of bare flesh.

Utterly incomprehensible.

Great story. Graphic battle scenes. Good movie.

To be fair, while people swore plenty in years past, it was never to the levels you'd see in things like Deadwood or Inglorious Basterds. Swearing didn't reach its current insanely widespread acceptance in daily parlance until the modern age. We tend to view history through a modern lens, and that lens is very much profanity laced in popular media (and I'm not drawing aspersions, I was a sailor. The saying 'swears like a sailor' exists for a reason. Even so, the stuff I hear in daily life these days would make my old Chief blush.)

The battle scenes and sounds are the best of any war movie to date.

+1 Khusrau

I would FAR prefer my daughter hear a swear word I taught her, or see a little anatomy, instead of humans being their absolute worst and shreding each other to pieces.

. Swearing didn't reach its current insanely widespread acceptance in daily parlance until the modern age.

According to Bill Mauldin in "Up Front" there was plenty of swearing in WW2.

I look forward to seeing it as well. And yes, Hollywood will be Hollywood. But it does tells a story that is worth telling. And needs to be heard by many in the past few generations. They need to know what happened before to put context to what is going on now or will be. Some events may be influenced based on their decisions and input … tomorrow …

Fabulous movie, very moving, wonderful story, beautifully portrayed.

Sorry for the spoiler request, but is there some reason they didn't just make him a medic? The trailers make it seem like he's just an infantryman with no rifle.

He was a medic.

Thanks for the review. I plan to see it with my sons.

Glad to hear Mel is back in action.

Concur with the kudos. Saw the movie on Wednesday. Great film, but at the end during the documentary film showing him receiving the Medal of Honor, Doss had a thin mustache, which was never seen in the movie itself. Wonder why that was.

Is that cliff and net really how they ascended to reach Hacksaw?

From a quick google the answer is a qualified yes on the cliff/net. The biggest difference is that the cliff looks to be 18-20 feet tall, not 75-100 like in the movie.

Regarding the battle scenes, they were the biggest disappointment for me. At times I felt I was watching 300 with guns.

Having said that, I liked the movie a lot for the human story aspect of it.

Too bad Mel was involved. Won't give that man any of my money.

+2 Khusrau

+3 doug redshirt

I'll happily give Mel some of my money. Can't wait to see it.

Actually Deadwood the language is completely false. Swears back then were gosh darn and and the producer felt in order to be authentic they all needed to talk like Yosemite Sam

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I'll pay for you to see it doug redshirt.

It was pretty great.

Weaponry looked authentic to me … identifiable Thompson, BAR, M1s, M4 Grease Gun, Nobu that seemed to have working actions and ejectionmechanisms.

Now the Sergeant with the M4 never reloaded as far as I could tell.

My wife and I saw it Friday evening, and enjoyed it. I usually avoid R rated movies for all the above reasons. I don't like watching violence, and don't watch a lot of movies anyway. Band of Brothers was fine for me. Saving Private Ryan nearly crushed me. We cringed some for Hacksaw Ridge, but enjoyed the main point of the movie enough to both say we liked it a lot. I don't land the same place that Doss did, but knowing that this wasn't made up (whether specific details were true or not) was astounding.

I'm curious about a detail: if Doss went to train as a medic, would he have continued with or been reunited with his unit? It was a better story having those relationships, but I really didn't know whether a medic stays with his unit from basic training onto the battlefield.

And not to try to have an argument, but I wanted to give another perspective on watching a war movie and caring whether there were sex scenes in it or not. It isn't that I glory in death and destruction but find anatomy abhorrent. It is that, while I'm not tempted to kill, I struggle daily to think in pure ways about women. (Happily married for 25 years.) I wouldn't be looking at sex scenes and thinking historical thoughts. Band of Brothers had a pretty quick scene, but The Pacific lingered on sex and returned to it, and I'd have happily skipped those parts of the latter. Just my perspective.

I've heard similar criticisms as in above posts, but I think they are aimed at a caricature of my real concern.

andy

Actually saw it with my original family, parents and sister. I think everyone liked it. Unlimited magazines is always a eye roller. My sister wants to see Dunkirk when it comes out, maybe another family outing.