http://blog.spout.com/2008/05/08/battle-for-haditha-is-the-best-war-film-in-years/ Daily coverage of what is truly interesting in the film world Sat, 19 Jul 2008 07:15:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://blog.spout.com/2008/05/08/battle-for-haditha-is-the-best-war-film-in-years/#comment-104359 chrismorrell Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:12:49 +0000 http://blog.spout.com/?p=2849#comment-104359 It's tremendous isnt it?..absolutely gut-wrenching and un-flinching... I saw it as a download from channel four a couple of months ago...i found myself recalling the scene in "Apocalypse Now" when Lawrence Fishburne shoots the family on the boat...This depicted real events,of course,and those involved have been charged with murder,have they not?..i found it incredibly moving, frustrating.and anger-making. You will not be suprised to hear that i cursed the Bush Regime to Hell while watching,for putting those guys out there,and that grinning pious arse Blair for enabling it all politically..as i write this i am cursing what i am hearing on the radio,as i hear a report of British forces using an un-manned aircraft to fire missiles in Afghanistan..damn cowardly or what?..What are we supposed to be doing "out there"? A while back i heard the range of opinions from the U.S forces ,ranging from the extreme "we're God's own Christian army" showing these camel jockeys a lesson..to "what the hell are we doing here,we are ruining these peoples lives"..with the pragmatic "We're here ,we cant leave untill we've cleared up this mess",probably the majority,and most responsible opinion. I have currently been reviewing some of Nick's older stuff "Biggie andf Tupac" ,"tracking down Maggie" (Margaret Thatcher)and "Kurt and Courtney"..i think "Battle for Haditha" is possibly his best,especially lined up against some of the more "overwrought" Hollywood responses to "Iraq 2" I have "Ghosts" lined up on my hard-drive,Nick Broomfield's other non-documentry movie...more power to his ellbow... It’s tremendous isnt it?..absolutely gut-wrenching and un-flinching… I saw it as a download from channel four a couple of months ago…i found myself recalling the scene in “Apocalypse Now” when Lawrence Fishburne shoots the family on the boat…This depicted real events,of course,and those involved have been charged with murder,have they not?..i found it incredibly moving, frustrating.and anger-making. You will not be suprised to hear that i cursed the Bush Regime to Hell while watching,for putting those guys out there,and that grinning pious arse Blair for enabling it all politically..as i write this i am cursing what i am hearing on the radio,as i hear a report of British forces using an un-manned aircraft to fire missiles in Afghanistan..damn cowardly or what?..What are we supposed to be doing “out there”? A while back i heard the range of opinions from the U.S forces ,ranging from the extreme “we’re God’s own Christian army” showing these camel jockeys a lesson..to “what the hell are we doing here,we are ruining these peoples lives”..with the pragmatic “We’re here ,we cant leave untill we’ve cleared up this mess”,probably the majority,and most responsible opinion. I have currently been reviewing some of Nick’s older stuff “Biggie andf Tupac” ,”tracking down Maggie” (Margaret Thatcher)and “Kurt and Courtney”..i think “Battle for Haditha” is possibly his best,especially lined up against some of the more “overwrought” Hollywood responses to “Iraq 2″ I have “Ghosts” lined up on my hard-drive,Nick Broomfield’s other non-documentry movie…more power to his ellbow…

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