Eastwood is GOD

Incredibly beautiful, powerful, brutal and emotional movie. Just saw it this weekend, and unless its a shell-shock effect, I'll go on record now to say it is the best World War 2 movie ever filmed. Spielberg needs to take a cue from Eastwood to see how to properly make a war film. There is no better way to show the true horrors of war than by showing BOTH sides of the conflict. In Saving Private Ryan, the only bit of interaction there was with the Nazis was when they let one go, and that same one re-appeared later and got his revenge. Moral of that movie: never trust a Nazi. Pure propaganda crap. I mean, The Pianist even showed the good side of one Nazi officer, and it was a Holocaust movie filmed by a Jewish director.

After seeing Iwo Jima (I didn't see Flags of Fathers yet), you get to see Japanese soldiers that are full of rage and suicidal as well as ones that had compassion and were hoping for survival. And you even saw the American soldiers who were fair and just, as well as one who were arrogant and murderous. There is no 'good guys' and 'bad guys' in this movie. Its about the millions of men who were thrown into the path of an unstoppable conflict and just did the best they could to cope with it.

I hope to see Flags of Our Fathers soon, and I hope they stuck to a similar formula used in Iwo Jima.

10/10