Community Chat

[Judaline]

Just wanted to say that my son saw the movie today(he read the book) and couldn't say enough good things about it-said it was a packed house and that when it was over everyone stood up and applauded. You don't see that much.

[qvcaddition]

The Greatest Generation. I am the daughter of a WWII VET . The book was great. RIP LOUIE

[LoriLori]

My cousin said the same thing, that when it was over everyone clapped and stood up.

I wonder how many of the bad reviews are jealousy. My cuz had not read the book and she got an excellent feel for Louie's life. And when she told me some reviewers said the POW scenes were unnecessarily brutal, I rattled off a bunch of things done to him, the most disgusting things, and asked if those were in the movie and of course she said wow, no.

[Judaline]

lori, that is so interesting that they clapped there as well as here. Pretty cool, actually. Unnessesarily brutal??? BECAUSE IT HAPPENED!!! And with today's movies? It was probably mild. People are so dumb.

[Gooday]

I read the book and because of the torture, I can't watch. The words are forever burned in my brain. I can't see it up close.

[LoriLori]

I don't want to see it either. Not because of the violence because as good as the movie might be it will never measure up to the book.

(I don't feel that way about every book. But I do about this one.)

[lulu2]

I read the book and have so much admiration for this gentleman. I do not think I could watch the atrocities he endured.

[Poodlepet2]

I recently heard about this movie, but in my mind, very few movies are ever a good as the books they are based off of. I guess it's considered an "old" book, but the Amazon Kindle addition I purchased within the past two days was $2.99......a steal! Poodlepet2

[JeanLouiseFinch]

We're finally getting to the movie theater to see this today. I've read and heard great reviews on it. The only negative I've heard, if you want to call it that, is that Angelina Jolie didn't tell the rest or most important part of the story...when Louis Z. met Dr. Billy Graham and became a Christian. I'm not a great book reader, but I think I need to read more about Louis Z.

[Poodlepet2]

I was going to 're-read"Hawaii" for the umpteenth time, then I decided to read "Unbroken" instead. I couldn't put it down. I spent a good part of NY day reading, couldn't sleep, and I just finished it. I cried through a good part of it: man's inhumanity to fellow humans is just something I will never grasp. The resilience, bravery and strength of the POWs was incredible:...this is so worth reading: I would love to see it on school reading lists. Poodlepet2