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Gilmer -> RE: Antony Beevor: the greatest war movie ever and the ones I can't bear (6/4/2018 9:25:59 PM)
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Where did anyone get the idea that we think Hollywood is great at making accurate movies? We aren't stupid. They make movies thinking they're not stupid, but we don't care as long as they pay to see them. So, we watch them and realize "This is crap" when it is inaccurate. And they know that is what we think, but like I said, as long as they make the money, they don't care.
As for Saving Private Ryan, I wasn't all that enthused about it myself. The opening Landing at Normandy scene seemed realistic, but who wants to watch that over and over? The rest of it was just OK if you ask me. I truly enjoyed Band of Brothers, but refused to watch Pacific because of Hanks' comments about racism and the Pacific War. I can't remember his exact comments and I get that a lot of whites thought, said, and did racist things against the Japanese, but Hanks' comments were something along the lines of, "We want that war because we are racist against the Asians". That is a paraphrasing of what he said, and you can look it up on google what he said. I think he was way over the line.
As for "American-centric", we can argue all day about that. Band of Brothers was about the Airborne in the 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne. It was a micro-story about American guys, because someone wanted to tell their story. As a matter of fact a lot of British actors played roles in the show, Damian Lewis played arguably the biggest role in the movie and I thought he was excellent. I'm pretty sure Major Winters thought he did great, too. Other actors who are British who played Americans - Matthew Leitch, Shane Taylor, Nicholas Aaron, Philip Barantini, Dexter Fletcher, Ross McCall, Robin Laing, Rick Warden, Michael Fassbender.... I wouldn;t change one of them out for an American. All did great jobs. Not really on topic, but wanted to point it out.
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