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Unbroken
« on: December 26, 2014, 01:59:10 AM »
Simply go see it.    I rarely go see movies in the theater, but this was well worth the $21.00 for Robert and I to see it.


I can't recommend it enough.
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Re: Unbroken
« Reply #1 on: December 26, 2014, 09:46:17 AM »
Agreed. 
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Re: Unbroken
« Reply #2 on: December 26, 2014, 09:47:48 AM »
I read that the "professional critics" totally panned it. Reading movie-goer accounts though, I don't recall ever reading about a film where so many who saw it mentioned how powerful and tear-inducing it was. Nearly every account I've read for this film mentions "cheering and crying".
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Re: Unbroken
« Reply #3 on: December 26, 2014, 09:54:28 AM »
I've read the book.  (listened to the unabridged book, actually)  The arrival of you-know-who* near the end was unexpected.  The whole thing is a powerful story.

*I don't want to spoil it
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Re: Unbroken
« Reply #4 on: December 26, 2014, 10:20:43 AM »
Just looked at the IMDB listing to find out what it's about.  I've read a lot about Japanese atrocities like the Bataan Death March, the Rape of Nanking, and the Japanese medical experiments at Unit  731 in northeast China.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bataan_Death_March
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731

The death march is only the most well-known of the Japanese barbarities during the war, but there are plenty more.

These are just immediate samples.  Further research will result in greater disgust.

So as much as the "Unbroken" story has to be told, I guess I'll pass on actually seeing that movie.

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Re: Unbroken
« Reply #5 on: December 26, 2014, 11:36:15 AM »
On Xmas my cousin mentioned that he'd started the book and read the first third in one day.  I bought the book a month ago but have yet to start it.  I guess I will read the book first and, maybe wait 'til the DVD is released.
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Re: Unbroken
« Reply #6 on: December 26, 2014, 01:31:03 PM »
The book was excellent.  I've not seen the movie.  I read that it the movie did leave out a lot of stuff that happened at the end of the book.
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Re: Unbroken
« Reply #7 on: December 26, 2014, 01:35:53 PM »
Quote from: BTR on December 26, 2014, 01:31:03 PM
The book was excellent.  I've not seen the movie.  I read that it the movie did leave out a lot of stuff that happened at the end of the book.

HAven't seen it, yet, but as I understand it the movie basically ends with his return home from the war, and leaves out the alcohol problems, Billy Graham Crusade conversion, and return to Japan to proselytize.
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Re: Unbroken
« Reply #8 on: December 26, 2014, 05:18:26 PM »
I thought the after-war part of the book was the best part.
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Re: Unbroken
« Reply #9 on: December 26, 2014, 05:30:21 PM »
Did they also leave out the one Japanese guard that was nice to him?  Without the Billy Graham part (which is a pretty major detail to leave out) that probably wouldn't fit the narrative.
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Re: Unbroken
« Reply #10 on: December 26, 2014, 08:31:03 PM »
I saw it today.  I don't mean to be a dick but the Wikipedia pages about Zamperini and Wantanabe are more riveting than the movie.  Hell of a story but the movie is just a disorganized collection of events with nothing to tie them together except they were all about the same guy.
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Re: Unbroken
« Reply #11 on: December 27, 2014, 12:30:21 AM »
^ I reckon that's the difference  between an author sitting down and plotting a story versus real life.
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