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I'm not sure what it is about a little flag waving that makes you William Hyde types so uncomfortable. Care to explain?



I'm not American so that stuff doesn't work for me. It would be the same if I was watching some Gunga Din bullshit from England as well. I much prefer the more low-key and brilliant They Were Expendable and The Big Red One to the shameless heart-string-pulling ending of, for example, Saving Private Ryan.

No disrespect to veterans of any war is intended, I don't see what flag waving has to do with that. Not surprisingly, when the film (or Sledge's case, the book) is made by someone who was actually there that shit tends to be in short supply.