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Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
IMDB rating: 7.10
Plot: John Marion Stryker is the ultimate Marine, a tough rifle squad leader who in 1943 is assigned a squad of new recruits saddled with three veterans and an old enemy of Stryker’s from previous duties in the Far East. One recruit in particlar is a source of friction with Stryker, Peter Conway, whose father was Stryker’s CO at Guadalcanal and who felt his son was too soft and cowardly to be a Marine. The squad grows more and more resentful at Stryker’s increasingly brutal training regimen and his lack of sympathy for the varied personal problems of the recruits, but his determination to mold them into fighting men helps save their lives when the squad is landed at Tarawa in November 1943 and Stryker risks his life to blow up a Japanese bunker that has slaughtered Marines trapped at a log wall. The now battle-tested squad becomes more closely-knit and Stryker’s relationship with the men warms as the squad eventually finds itself in the bloodiest island battle of the war, at Iwo Jima.
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Actors: Wayne John,Agar John,Tucker Forrest,Cassell Wally,Brown James,Webb Richard,Franz Arthur,Holden James,Coe Peter,Jaeckel Richard,Murphy William,Tyne George,Baylor Hal,McGuire John,Milner Martin,Action,Drama,War,Romance,
A BAD AMERICAN? you tell me. is this untrue, or unfair?
I am a BAD American.
I like big cars, big guns, and big tits. I believe the money I make belongs to me and my family, not some mid-level governmental functionary with a bad comb-over who wants to give it away to crack addicts squeezing out babies.
I don’t think playing with guns makes you a killer. I don’t think being a minority makes you noble or victimized. I don’t care if you call me a racist, a homophobe or a misogynist. I know that no matter how big Jennifer Lopez’s ass gets, I’ll still want to see it.
I believe that if you are selling me a Big Mac in America, you do it in English. I don’t use the excuse "it’s for the children" as a shield for unpopular opinions or actions. I want to know when MTV became such crap.
I know what the definition of "is" is. I didn’t take the initiative in inventing the Internet. I want them to bring back safe and sane fireworks.
I believe no one ever died because of something Ozzy Osborne, Ice-T or Marilyn Manson sang. I think that being an art student doesn’t give you any more insight than working at Blockbuster. I don’t want to eat or drink anything with the words light, lite or fat-free on the package.
I believe everyone has a right to pray to his or her God or gods, and they can do it in their schools. I think the WNBA is cool, as is the US Womens’ Soccer Team - because they kick ass. My heroes are John Wayne, Winston Churchill, Ronald Reagan, Norman Schwartzkopf, Colin Powell and whoever canceled "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman".
I think creative violence and useless nudity and sex makes Iraqis deader and movies more interesting.
I don’t hate the rich. I don’t pity the poor. I think global warming is Chicken Little junk science.
I’ve never owned or was a slave, I didn’t wander forty years in the desert after getting chased out of Egypt. I haven’t burned any witches or been persecuted by the Turks and neither have you, so shut-the-hell-up already.
Rocky and Bullwinkle still makes me laugh. I think you can respect and admire women while mentally undressing them. I believe a self-righteous liberal with a cause is more dangerous than a 6 year old with a Play Station.
I want to know exactly which church it is where the Rev. Jesse Jackson preaches.
I think explosions are cool. I don’t care where Ellen DeGeneres puts her tongue. I think the cops have every right to shoot your sorry ass if you’re running from them. I thought Spinal Tap was great, but Rob Reiner can still kiss my ass.
I worry about dying before I get even.
I like the convenience of buying oranges while I’m waiting at a stoplight, and I’m pretty sure the Latina girl selling them to me is glad she no longer lives in a refrigerator packing carton outside Ensenada.
I figured out Bruce Willis was dead midway through The Sixth Sense but enjoyed it anyway.
I think turkey bacon sucks.
I want somebody to explain to me exactly why it’s wrong to point out that when I watch a freeway chase, I know the losers the police eventually pull out of the car are not gonna be honor roll middle-class high school kids but gang-banging losers from the wrong side of town.
I believe that it doesn’t take a village to raise a child, it takes a parent with a firm voice and a firmer hand. I think tattoos and piercings are fine if you want them, but please don’t pretend they are a political statement and not a fad. I like hard women, hard liquor and a hard bowel movement first thing in the morning, and don’t even think about asking me if I want a rice cake.
I believe you don’t have to speak with a lisp to pick out a couch for your living room.
I’ll admit that the only movies that ever made me cry was "Sands of Iwo Jima" and "Ole Yeller". I didn’t realize Dr. Seuss was a genius until I had a kid.
I will not conform or compromise just to keep from hurting somebody’s feelings.
I’m neither angry nor disenfranchised, no matter how desperately the mainstream media would like the world to believe otherwise.
YES, I am a BAD American.
How do you feel about running for President
business as usual | Apr 02, 2008
Only DUMB Americans copy and paste here.
Media R | Apr 02, 2008
You are a bad American because you type too much.
Et3rn4l | Apr 02, 2008
You have opinions…grats…so does everybody else.
Feel better?
David W | Apr 02, 2008
Ok, you are right. Additionally: I will never understand why the US waste their money for a useless war like in Iraq and on the other hand move into financial dependence to China, Russia and the Arab countries. Do you have an administration which will lead the US into a disaster?
Friedrich Wilhelm | Apr 02, 2008
lol, chicken little junk science? Thank god even McCain’s come around on that one.
Joey P | Apr 02, 2008
Considering that you didn’t even write that, I’m not impressed.
Mike G | Apr 02, 2008
Okay, so someone just did something pretty similar to this an hour ago. If you’re going to be uncreative, shouldn’t you try and be more underhanded about it?
MM | Apr 02, 2008
well that was interesting. i’ve decided not to criticize your opinions because i respect the fact that you could analyze yourself thoroughly and accurately. but to answer the question some of your statements were untrue and unfair but many were not and i think that goes for everyones opinions.
Mr. Goodadvice | Apr 02, 2008
Well Steve
It all depends on whose "scale" you’re using as the benchmark for the "good / bad" ratio in this litany of things that you have used to describe your views !
According to the mainstream media and the powers that be…. not being so politically correct as to shy away from labels and centering around the mauve middle ground on issues…. makes you Very Bad indeed
But, from a view that America has always consisted, at its heart, of people who had their own distinct way of seeing things…. would see you in the performance in center ring on THAT front…. AS an individual … and, in that … you would certainly be seen as a True American… if not a good one !!
I can’t see eye to eye with you on a number of the points that you have brought out here….but, can see, very easily, where you’re coming from…. and, it is just fine by me ! And, I think…. THAT’s what makes ME a Good American !!
LARRY J7 | Apr 02, 2008
No your not a bad American, I just think you watch to much TV or you must live in a large city.
If you think that the government has just been giving away money to crack addicts who squeeze out babies your wrong.
Many people in America have lost there jobs and have actually burned their homes to try and collect insurance because it was about to be foreclosed.
They have worked hard their whole life’s and have come on hard times because of NAFTA or some other program where the government pays big corporations to outsource.
If it were up to me I would rather give my money to a crack addict to help her babies then a big corporation to take away American jobs.
As for the global warming issue, most all scientists now agree that it is happening. You and I are not scientists but I have noticed change in the world.
You might not like nature but we are apart of it. If nature is destroyed so are we. I am not saying that we are the total cause but we have to be helping it along.
I am not asking people to stop using gas but lets get real, if allot of people cut back and use it only when necessary or have don’t buy gas days we might force the government to find another way to power our big cars and SUVs cause I like them also.
The government has kept other way to power cars and homes under wraps.
There has to be a better way and some one has the answer.
letfreedomring | Apr 02, 2008