Flags of Our Fathers

Have you seen this movie? P. and I have been wanting to see it ever since we saw the first trailer for it. I mentioned earlier today that we were going to the in-laws so we could spend time with P.'s brother and his wife while they were in for the weekend. Little Brother told us that he had "Flags of Our Fathers" with him that weekend and had been waiting to see it because he wanted to watch it with the hubby and their dad.

So after we had lunch, we all gathered in the family room to watch the movie. Let me just say real quick that I've gotten extremely spoiled by our big screen TV. We put it on layaway before Christmas of 2003, and I managed to get it paid off in time for it to be delivered to us before the hubby deployed to Iraq. That way he was able to enjoy it for a little bit before he left. I thought that was only fair. I mention this because the film "Letters from Iwo Jima" was advertised on the DVD of "Flags of Our Fathers." Apparently that one has lots of subtitles. I'm sitting there watching the previews and having a very difficult time reading the subtitles, especially when they're over a light-colored background. Ugh! I was afraid the movie we were watching was going to have a lot of subtitles, but was glad to see that it didn't.

But I digress. I have a tendency to go off on tangents like that from time to time. So we all watched "Flags of Our Fathers" this afternoon. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it. My hubby, who is quite the military historian, was pretty impressed with it, and he'll be the first to nitpick a war movie to death. We'll definitely be purchasing this one to add to our collection. I really like movies that show the facts of something (like the war on Iwo Jima), but also go behind the scenes, so to speak, and get to the nitty gritty personal stories of those involved. "Flags of Our Fathers" does that, and some of it was heart breaking. I won't go into any more detail, but I'll say again that I strongly recommend seeing this movie if you haven't already.