Letters from Iwo Jima

Um, I, I don't know.

But this, it's also gonna be really hard not to n- The Saving Private Ryan thing is, is something that I'm sure will be brought up a little bit, but it's also impossible not to talk about Letters from Iwo Jima very regularly.

Because I think the most interesting part of these two films, while I do think they both have merit in isolation, the most interesting part of this is the almost experimental approach that Clint Eastwood took to this pair of kind of, uh, partner films.

Um, and this one, to your point, Jesse, not as revered as the other one that we're gonna talk about, but I think this is actually quite a good film.

I have seen Flags of Our Fathers previously.

Um, I'd, I'd seen it a couple years ago, uh, uh, uh, during my now famous, um, initial run of watching Clint movies.

Because I knew I needed to see Letters from Iwo Jima, was really the reason I had watched this one.

Uh, because there, there...

We had, uh, Iñárritu, A.G.I. for Babel, Babel.

We had big Clint Eastwood for Letters From Iwo Jima, uh, one of the two movies that he made this year about World War II.

It's-

Mm-hmm

Do you have an opinion on which one of those is better?

I think I would tend to lean the one that was kind of from the, um-

... international Japanese perspective than the, uh, American.

Yeah.

And the letters, um, uh, m- I remember this very nice movie by Clint Eastwood, Letters From Iwo Jima.

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He was di- he directed that.

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Letters from Iwo Jima.

This show is also a game.

I'm gonna award some points for jokes, cogent thoughts, and anything else I feel like awarding.

Is tails involved? No, that's too much this early.

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We are here to talk about Letters from Iwo Jima.

Greg-

And I feel like that is different to me from, you know, from Gran Torino.

And also even like the way he does like Letters from Iwo Jima and Flags of My Fathers, which are pretty, you know, they're classic Hollywood war films.

And, you know, they have various things they're doing that's different, but they're within that space.

Whereas then, yeah, I feel like when you go back before that and you think like, okay, Million Dollar Baby, Mystic River, you know, blood work space cowboys like these are just these are just straightforwardly fiction films, right? Is million million dollar babies not about a real boxer? Is that right?

Also, his interests are not that aligned with mine, typically.

I think the other one that I dig that feels like it's so outside of his interest is probably Letters from Iwo Jima.

Yeah.

But...

Children of Men.

Letters from Iwo Jima.

Trash.

Pan's Labyrinth.