Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar
Savlov Got It Wrong on 'The Great Raid'
RECEIVED Mon., Aug. 22, 2005
Dear Editor,
After reading Marc Savlov's Aug. 12 review of The Great Raid [Film Listings] I was curious to see if he got it right. He didn't. The best movie of 2005 is undoubtedly The Great Raid. Ebert and Roeper gave it "two thumbs up," and my wife and I couldn't agree more. How many movies have you seen where the audience stays through the credits until the very end? The Great Raid was a memorable, fast-paced, and crowd-pleasing chronology of the true-life events that took place between Jan. 27 and Jan. 31 in 1945 near the end of World War II. The brave Filipino Resistance and American soldiers working together not only gave the 511 POW camp survivors their freedom but also liberated millions of Filipinos from the brutal and murderous Japanese invaders. The Great Raid will make you proud to be an American. Go see it for yourself and see if you don't agree with the direction of our thumbs. Savlov's review, while predictable, gets "two thumbs down.”
After reading Marc Savlov's Aug. 12 review of The Great Raid [Film Listings] I was curious to see if he got it right. He didn't. The best movie of 2005 is undoubtedly The Great Raid. Ebert and Roeper gave it "two thumbs up," and my wife and I couldn't agree more. How many movies have you seen where the audience stays through the credits until the very end? The Great Raid was a memorable, fast-paced, and crowd-pleasing chronology of the true-life events that took place between Jan. 27 and Jan. 31 in 1945 near the end of World War II. The brave Filipino Resistance and American soldiers working together not only gave the 511 POW camp survivors their freedom but also liberated millions of Filipinos from the brutal and murderous Japanese invaders. The Great Raid will make you proud to be an American. Go see it for yourself and see if you don't agree with the direction of our thumbs. Savlov's review, while predictable, gets "two thumbs down.”
Richard Weinstein