Fri, 23 February 2007
On this week's show it's two war movies (a.k.a. Lisa's nightmare episode). Clint Eastwood's Letters From Iwo Jima, a companion piece to Flags Of Our Fathers, tells the Iwo Jima story from the Japanese perspective. The 1970 film Tora! Tora! Tora! depicts the attack on Pearl Harbor, masterfully intercutting between both the American and Japanese point of view. Also Lisa takes in the terrific spelling bee documentary Spellbound while Jeff watches Saw III. All this plus Jeff and Lisa cast their imaginary Oscar ballots for Best Picture. Comments[2]
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- i enjoy the distinct differnces of both of your enlightend and livley humanity of your voices.
btw here is a link that you might find funny and give you something to laugh at.
http://www.dilbert.com/
or even better
http://my.break.com/media/view.aspx?ContentID=233807
but to continue comment on your review,
the acoustics are real good so that there is no additional echo like some radio stations have or the am like sound quality of the more redundant of radio reveiws that are available online.
your quality is superb, i would almost compare your (jeff)voice almost similar to bob wilkins of creature feature.
while (lisa) sounds alot like someone from sex in the city, and her laugh or giggle is so warm and full of energy that , well i just love her laugh.
id like to point out that with regard to the retelling the story point, what movie has not comeout after the publishing of a story or news, so in fact that almost all movies have no real suprise unless its original and not based on so and so.
ok that ends the positive aspects of this comment
and tho i love to listen to you both i have to add some negatives.
perhaps you should have dome more research on your films, and with a quick link click here are some informative links
tora tora tora- trivia
http://imdb.com/title/tt0066473/trivia
tora tora tora- awards
http://imdb.com/title/tt0066473/awards
as for saving private ryan,
again someone needs to do a little research, they do care if someone in your family is killed in a conflict, they will come and find you and get you out. or they will call or send documnts and get you out in a red cross message.
i learned of my mothers death in 97 while i was training in ft irwin, they came out to me in the middle of the california desert and sent me home.(2 weeks)
and the same for my father in 99.
and then in 2001 after 9-11 i was going thru pre-deployment training for iraq and part of the pre-trip is doing some paperwork to show your willingness to go and in a obscure spot on the 9th page and on the back, in small print. there is a box to check or ingore(99.9%) of the time, i checked it, where i claim to be the son of a man that died, and am the sole survivor of my family line and with no son currently living.
and because the US Army or in fact the US govt even has that box on any of its forms, allowed me to get out of going to iraq.
Im not a coward, and have had to defend my desicion to check that box, no less then 20 times, in front of various people that have accused me of being a coward and dishonrable,
the system tried to break me for 2 weeks of intense physical training, and get me to sign a waiver.( i refused)
but in responce to lisa, the goverment cares and still says that its a all volunteer force, tho the differnce historically between our cultures of american and japan in 1940 the people serverd in the japanese military as a point of honour for the family, where as the american serice was as a ends to a means and we were still coming out of the great deppresion.
in fact imo, our countrys economy is based on a war footing, and watch that we dont make the premise for the movie mad max dosent come true.
if you think that we arnt going to attack iran, i think you are mistaken.
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