I love this movie.
We're the good guys, the Reds are the bad guys. Let's get them!
It's refreshing to watch. Modern movies tend to be about 'moral equivalence' and other BS. I prefer the old Cold War stories.
Kill the Commie bastards! Woo hoo!
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"Trees cause more pollution than automobiles." Ronald Reagan
But we are the good guys!
Great film. Sam Fuller at his best and Bella Darvi is a real looker!
This is not Fuller at his best. It's got Zanuck written all over it.
HAHW has none of the moral complexity and characterization of his earlier war films like The Steel Helmet or Fixed Bayonets.
Still, there are enough Fullerisms in it to make this movie a watchable yet studio-bound actioner.
Go, ZX! Nice to know I'm not alone in despising this modern tolerance and moral equivalency crapola. Yes, I wish we had films like this today.
Ah, the icky 50s!
This moral certainty you're so fond of -- keep in mind that it's the same moral certainty that the Nazis had, and the Hutus; oh, and of course, the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, and ISIS. They're all "the good guys" too, by their own standards. It's so typically human to take the easy way out, and moral certainty is the easiest thing in the world. Moral equivalence (which you so eloquently refer to as BS) is, in reality, nothing more than the attempt to see both sides of an issue, and to avoid the types of bloodshed that have occurred when individuals and nations refuse to make any effort to see one another's perspectives, insisting instead on dogmatic arrogance and unchecked jingoism. But by all means, let's have more war, more violence, more death.
shareWho built the Berlin Wall and why? No need for moral equivalence there.
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