Saw it last night.
VG biography pic but it let me down a little by the story telling.
The book left me a little me a little short also.
Extraordinary life of Louis Zamperini, an immigrant's child, who enters WW2 for his survival story.
This is not Saving Private Ryan but worth seeing.
My 86 year old father in law, an air force vet, liked it because of the story and the omission if profanity. I saw some other older geezers there too.
I wished that his younger life was depicted more to show his character development.
I got a last minute call to see this film. My sister in law's hub bought 4 tickets online. He was thinking that he would take our father in law , wife and son but the son and wife backed out so Swmbo and I bought the tickets so he wasn't out $20.
The show was at one of these Movie Tavern places that are opening around the country (mostly Texas). It had recently opened in one of the old movieplexes that was closed after Katrina due to the roof being blown off and extensive mold problem developed and then insurance problems. It is one of these places that serve food in big seats etc. It was a little annoying like I thought it would be. I guess they are trying to change the culture or are appealing to some other crowd but not me.
> The book left me a little me a little short also.
I found the book fascinating. I don't think I would have made it through half of what he did.
Thanks for the comments. Intend to see this very soon. The main review I had read gave it great comments for some things and terrible comments for other things. Usually if a critic tells me a movie is terrible I will think it's great and vice versa. A mixed bag of comments makes me a little nervous because that suggests the movie will be OK but could be better, but for opposite reasons to what the reviewer wrote.
They had a blurb on this movie tonight on the movie. Seems like the author wrote the book based on official documents and filled in some blanks via phone calls to Mr. Zamperini. She never met the man until after they started making the movie. That may account for some of the gaps in the book and in the movie.
Either way, I cannot wait to see this movie. Fewer and fewer of "The Greatest Generation" left before their stories can be told.
When I was on Active Duty, I was stationed on Ford Island, Hawaii. Great place to put an Army unit. I lived off post. The neighbor to the left of me was an Ex Destroyer Commander from the Pacific Theater in WWII. The neighbor to my right was a retired Japanese Army Officer circa WWII. The discussions on my lani over a cold beer or two on the weekends were VERY interesting and sometimes heated. History learned from opponents that "were there" was an insight that I never could have gotten anywhere else.
