"I wasn't surprised by the Letters From Iwo Jima nomination. The L.A. critics dug it. And with two major films this year, Eastwood had to be nominated for something. Odd that Flags of Our Fathers was such a nonstarter. In some ways, it's stronger than Iwo Jima, which suffers from a bland humanism that has little to do with the warrior codes (and collective insanity) of the Japanese military at the time. And yet its strongest scenes are wrenching — tragic with a touch of farce. When an old Republican like Clint Eastwood is bent on deconstructing the myths that drive nations to war, you know you're in for a seismic shift in the culture."

Rest of article at:

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2007/01...lion.html#more

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Pure refined 112% crapola. Eastwood has been a liberal for a long time. The main thesis of Flags of our Fathers - that people on the homefront didn't understand the difficulties of war, was ridiculous - particularly the vehicle he used to portray this - a denigration of the crucial war bond drives.
If that movie was stupid, Letters From Iwo Jima was sickening - an attempt to "humanize" a murderous, suicidal, war criminal enemy. And of course the liberal media "dug" it.

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