[Milsurplus] Review: WINDTALKERS

[David Stinson]

I did go see it.
First, on the cussing:  It wasn't that bad.
Only a few times and in places you'd expect it to be.
Most Hollywood junk today is full of potty mouth, 
but this one wasn't- just a mild dose.

Now the important parts ;-).

I could pick apart several technical things in this movie,
but I forgive them.  The story this movie tells is
far more important then a TBY talking directly to an RBC receiver.
The movie does suffer from the Hollywood idea that all radios
talk on the same frequencies. 

But I don't care. 
This isn't about the TBY.
This is about how a man can hurt so bad, feel so much guilt 
and pain that he becomes a machine, and how watching it happen to 
his buddies helps them become human again.

It's about how men in an indescribable hell
find the strength to do what they must
for their families and,
most of all, for their buddies.

Most important-
it's about the indestructible spark of human decency,
compassion and spirit that still glows under the most wretched 
and incomprehensible fear and misery.

If you are the least bit squeamish, you might not want to go.
The combat between the Marines and the Japanese 
in the South Pacific in WWII was beyond brutal,
beyond savage.  Death and Slaughter held 
high carnival on Saipan, and this movie pulls 
no punches and makes no apologies in depicting
the butchery of WWII in the Pacific.  The combat
scenes are sudden, horrific and in-your-face.
This makes Private Ryan look like a baseball game.

Your wife will not like this movie.
Every man who thinks he knows something about war 
should see it.

73 DE Dave AB5S