I just bought this DVD and settled in to watch it. I really had trouble sitting through this movie and not fast forwarding through it but since I bought it I actually wasted the full run time watching it.
It is a lot like A Thin Red Line (which I could not sit through either). However this movie was not nearly as self indulgent as Malick's film.
Beach Red was slow moving and riddled with historical inaccuracies. Much of the equipment worn by the actors were very late WWII vintage or Korean war era. Flash-backs to loved ones and girl friends showed women that looked like they stepped out of a 1960's go-go booth. Hair styles, make up, fake eyelashes, room interiors were all 1960's...no thought to historical accuracy. The combat scenes are something straight out of a 1960's Italian Western with blood the color of a nice Vodka sauce.
As I recall in the mid to late 1960's the big thing in film making was to push the edge on violence and blood content, also there was a heavy anti war message and anti-hero bent. As I watched Beach Red, I couldn't help but think that no one would have a problem dating this picture as a product of the 1960's.
This is not Band of Brothers or As Trumpets Fade (two of my Favorite War movies). If you want to see a good Pacific theater war movie, then watch Sands of Iwo Jima, Guadalcanal Diary or Wake Island. All are superior to Beach Red in my humble opinion.
It is a lot like A Thin Red Line (which I could not sit through either). However this movie was not nearly as self indulgent as Malick's film.
Beach Red was slow moving and riddled with historical inaccuracies. Much of the equipment worn by the actors were very late WWII vintage or Korean war era. Flash-backs to loved ones and girl friends showed women that looked like they stepped out of a 1960's go-go booth. Hair styles, make up, fake eyelashes, room interiors were all 1960's...no thought to historical accuracy. The combat scenes are something straight out of a 1960's Italian Western with blood the color of a nice Vodka sauce.
As I recall in the mid to late 1960's the big thing in film making was to push the edge on violence and blood content, also there was a heavy anti war message and anti-hero bent. As I watched Beach Red, I couldn't help but think that no one would have a problem dating this picture as a product of the 1960's.
This is not Band of Brothers or As Trumpets Fade (two of my Favorite War movies). If you want to see a good Pacific theater war movie, then watch Sands of Iwo Jima, Guadalcanal Diary or Wake Island. All are superior to Beach Red in my humble opinion.