I just finished watching Defiance, starring Daniel Craig.
I thought it was a very good film, and thought to myself that it was one of the better WWII movies that I've seen. But then I realized that there are almost no World War II movies that I don't like. I'm not exactly a violence junkie, but the only WWII movie that I honestly haven't liked is Hart's War, and that may just be because I watched it on FX when I was 12. Oh yeah, and maybe Pearl Harbor. Other than that, all the other WWII movies I've seen were excellent. Saving Private Ryan, Valkyrie, Inglorious Basterds, Atonement, The Pianist, Schindler's List, Memphis Belle, and Empire of the Sun are all the other WWII movies that I have seen according to Wikipedia's list. And they're all really good! My hypothesis is that poor WWII films aren't released because it was such a significant parable in American history that any shoddy attempts at a movie would be considered disrespectful to war veterans or holocaust survivors, or whoever may have had a role. The reason I don't think this is true is because there is an assload of shitty WWII video games.
I suppose I'm making this post out of boredom more than anything, since I don't have anything important to say that doesn't take a significant amount of time to write. I probably have something to say about this whole Barack-Obama-in-the-schools "controversy," so stick around.
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