I read the Hillenbrand bio and am looking forward to seeing the movie. A number of members of my family spent time in Japanese concentration camps. A great uncle (by marriage) died doing slave labor on the Railway of Death. An awful lot of second-tier Japanese war criminals like Zamperini's abuser sure got a free pass thanks to the Cold War.

My friend heartily recommends the book.  It's on my list.  An unbelievable story.

Did anybody catch that screenplay written by Joel and Ethan Cohen and directed by Angelina Jolie??!!
Stupefied here.

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It is a shame that movies are becoming so reliant on CGI.  I can understand it in some fantasyland futuristic plot, but when it comes to reenacting historical events, it really bothers me.  I'd rather see a model battleship or submarine in a wave tank with someone pouring buckets of water over it than some of the over-the-top CGI stuff.  I'm sure it would cost a damn fortune to go out and round up a squadron of real warplanes, if you even could muster an entire squadron of the same plane at this point - like some Zeros or Corsairs.  Perhaps CGI will one day arrive at the point where you really can't tell it's fake.