Unbroken (2014)

Movies Viewed in 2024 (170 movies items)

" First Viewing Viewing Date: January 26th Via: Blu-ray Plot: After a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, Olympian Louis Zamperini spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he's caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp. Rating: 7.8/10 Why Did I Watch It? This has been on my watchlist for nearly ten years. I felt in the mood for something classy, so I fired this up."

Movies That I have watched all (2289 movies items)

"7.4/10"

Personal War Drama

“It’s the patriotic Angelina Jolie! 

“If you can take it you can make it…. A moment of pain, is worth a lifetime of glory!” 

The guy’s a high school runner, and then a soldier, obviously, but as an intellectual I relate to that philosophy, because thinking about ornery smart people and the books they write can be quite pain-inducing, in a way, but it’s worth it for me. Even as a mystic, I think it has a relevance. We don’t want this…. Sorta, negative nothing, where you’re like the man who sat by the pool of water for 38 years saying, “I’m nothing; just let me rot”, you know. (They didn’t happen to mention that guy in the homily excerpt, but it was a nice homily.) And I don’t know; I just started to actually like the Man of the Forties in thi” read more

Movies Watched in 2020 (128 movies items)

"Netflix - First viewing"

ASC Award for Best Cinematography (Film): 2010s (52 movies items)

"Roger Deakins "

Mid-Year Oscar Predictions - 2014 (10 movies items)

"Results: NOT nominated for Best Picture ZERO Wins THREE Nominations for Cinematography, Sound Editing, and Sound Mixing. "

Most Anticipated Films - 2014 (30 movies items)

"Result: #50 on "Best Films of 2014" list. Trailer: "

-Watched in August 2018- (36 movies items)

"August 9 -- FIRST VIEWING "

Watched in 2018 (301 movies items)

"My Rating:6/10 "

Academy Award for Best Cinematography: 2010's (50 movies items)

"Roger Deakins "

ADG Award for Best Period Production Design: 2010s (53 movies items)

"Jon Hutman "

Movies Watched in 2016 (66 movies items)

"2016/02/21 @home on DVD from library with Kendra Crazy true story of a man during World War 2 and the ordeals he survived. Worth the watch."

Movies set in the World War II period (83 movies items)

"A chronicle of the life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II."

Oscars Part II - Movies of 2014 (37 movies items)

"NOMINEE: - Best Score"

Angelina Jolie Films Viewed by Kathy (9 movies items)

" Director: Angelina Jolie Starring: Jack O'Connell, Miyavi, Domhnall Gleeson, Garrett Hedlund, Finn Wittrock, Takamasa Ishihara, John Magaro and Alex Russell A chronicle of the life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II."

Actors Who Played Real Sportspeople (24 movies items)

" Jack O'Connell Louis Zamperini Louis Silvie "Louie" Zamperini (January 26, 1917 – July 2, 2014) was a US prisoner of war survivor in World War II, a Christian evangelist and an Olympic distance runner. Zamperini took up running in high school and qualified for the US in the 5000m race for the 1936 Berlin Olympics. He finished 8th in the event. In 1941 he was commissioned into the United States Army Air Forces as a Lieutenant. He served as a bombardier in B-24 Liberators in the Pacific. On a "