Gung Ho!

In my version it was very slow going to the action scenes it took me 4 tries on kindle and I almost gave up on the 3rd. The laboriously lengthy speeches that blocked you from thinking of landing on an island with monkey snipers on trees. The lengthy brother scenes and so forth. And how fast it switched from I hate japs give me Chow to I like Japan and cold war China with Mao and crazy Chang with Rhee in D.C. as socialist pigs ready to run you down with your own stockpiled ammo. How blind humans can be when we fight for God and hell and heaven and hell when instead we look at what we're really fighting for is some visionary future of our dreams on earth. How quickly an enemy can be an ally in a quick turn and friends your worst backstabber for more living space they cannot even tend to in their lazy dreams. And how naive inexperience can be a quicker turn with rising Fury against those when carefully analyzed in their operations are quick to fire their ammo so wastefully against a quick thinking and long haul maneuver. The islands of the Pacific will later be more of a lure instead of Europe as vacation and tourist spots unless art architecture lit majors historians etc. I would think some on female parts would be to just clear those monkey trees for air strips and landings as too dependent on subs while risking air attacks. But that's just me commenting in retrospect of amazing action scenes put into war moving story with digitized and preserved 35mm film. I love war action scenes where I just want to just jump right in and give them fighting guerillas myself and have them running. And that's just the thing, that as movie watchers we don't realize how physically exhaustive and painful some of those maneuvers can be. As the Oriental japs fought inch by inch, tooth and nail, and didn't give up until they began to finally see that visionary dreams for the future manifest in business enterprise, technology, and goods into the international markets that they slowly saw the fruits of our labors that they also vied for to finally fling open their cold closed door to flood their goods likewise with blue prints from Japan. How entwined Japan and China was in their strategic operations was something I always questioned and how much the white house and the president would conceal to the public in their "fireside chats" that made them seem so gentle while maneuvering these wars. My first thought upon entry is food supply, ammo, and how long before they're exhausted into retreat and how much do they want this and what for. To think just devils and so on, is to me too tunnel vision'ed or driven by empty, and then I will pause and wonder how low human can go in times of war, and what I must do to singly see that I remain alive to carry out my future visionary dreams on earth in the end of that tunnel. I think that's what Tennessee Williams just didn't get to. Or that priest. Our time on earth. And how grand it can be. and is.

I have always liked Randolph Scott movies, the quality is a bit less than i expected but take into consideration when it was made and it's still a great movie from a one the great all time actors, the supporting cast is excellent as well!!

This film, which was first released in 1943, was based on a factual raid on a Japanese held stronghold. This raid was done in the same spirit of Doolittle's Raid on Tokyo: a message to Hirohito that we could also hit them, and hit them hard. (He obviously did NOT get the message.) This movie is definitely a product of its time, as shown by the valor of our side and the uncaring feeling of the enemy. While this was true to some extent, it is definitely hyped in the movie. Again, you have to take into account the feelings of the time. I recall discussing the propaganda cartoons of this era with a much younger co-worker in one job I had, and she was complaining about the stereotypical portrayal of the enemy. I told her that they were doing to same for us, and that these cartoons merely reflected the feelings of that time.Despite this, I still love this movie and the characters in it. It definitely portrays both sides of the coin: the bravery and valor, and the fact that not everyone made it back. It's a well done film, and maybe I was lucky, cause I got a good copy. I still recommend it to anyone who micht be interested in films of this era.

A while back an older gentleman asked me if my dad (my name's Butterfield) served in the Solomon Islands in WW2. I answered yes he did. He asked if my dad was a marine. No, he was an officer in the navy. He said he was a marine in the Solomons and his sergeant was named Butterfield.I happened upon an obit while googling, one Franklin Wells Butterfield. He was born Feb. 4th 1927 and after Pearl Harbor was attacked he joined the marines, at the age of 14. He served with Carlson's Raiders. By the age of 16 he was a decorated combat veteran. In San Francisco he met a girl and they married in Reno.The marine's name was Matt Ferris, perhaps I found your sergeant Matt.

I know that some people want more blood and guts but this is the kind of movie that tells a story of heroic soldiers in short order. Just how accurate it is in the details I don't know but for an overview of the events shortly following Pearl Harbor this is the kind of movie I grew up on. I was born in 1951, my dad was on the USS Franklin. "Big Ben" he witnessed the horrific bombing and death first hand. I am grateful for an inspiring movie such as this and others produced for the civilian population and us kids of the survivors of WWII.

You can't escape the rampant yet subtle racism in the movie which is a product of its time but still a very good war movie. A more accurate remake would be nice too see

Watching Ice Cube play the hard guy would-be spy makes you realise - wow! Vin Diesel actually DID have charisma after all!All pretensions to the part being about spying and stealth are out of the window - the first movie had an appeal of being like a Bond movie on steroids; This one is just action, and could be any action franchise a few movies in. In fact, in terms of substance this could easily have been direct to video for all the weight the star and story carry... however, there are bangs for your buck on display here.. the actions scenes are as big budget as they are ludicrous. The opening scene has some promise with Samuel Jackson taking on the bad guys in his own headquarters, but when he steps into the wierd custom job car you know there is a franchise identity crisis on the way - is this XXX or Fast and Furious 4??In short, this is brainless action - budget is on the screen, but not with the script. Ice Cube plods through the role giving it no heart, panache, or even self knowing parody. Daniel Defoe and Samuel Jackson should know better.

All Americans take on slant eyed Nips in Propaganda film for WW2 action in Pacific. A western in all but name, hence Western stalwarts from central casting in main roles, the first action in this theatre portrayed as derring-do success. The Japs were actually toned down, the real story(Omitted) was that the Japs didn't take POWs.

First class WW2 Rah-Rah- or Gung Ho film about getting those D.... L..... Y..... J.. R....! As was an acceptable thing to call the enemy at the time this was filmed. In other words, certainly it might be called a proipaganda film. However, that being observed,we can understand why. All's fair...ETC. We wanted to win, and it was based on a real incident. The first U.S. Marines raid to give the Japanese a bloody nose after our series of catastrophies at Pearl Harbor, Bataan, etc. Very good and well staged action despite the cliches. And hey, the cliches work in this vintage genre!

Don't expect to much from this movie, only that you will buy a nice movie. It isn't great, it is not a million dollar movie, but it is a nice war movie. The movie is shot during World War 2 and two great actors are playing in this movie: Robert Mitchum and Randolph Scott. They became realy famous after the war, but they're doing a nice job in this movie.

well worth adding to any war collection. very good actors in it.