Hacksaw Ridge (2016)

Been hearing good things about this (and Mel Gibsons acting move Blood Father too).

Out at the start of Nov for the states, but not until 2017 for us brits.

I'm kind of surprised Mel Gibson got work.

Note that the trailer is too: it just mentions "The Director of Braveheart", and his name is nowhere. Frankly, I haven't heard of most of those production companies either.

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They do this a lot with movies. Not just because it is Gibson.

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Right. A lot of people are dumb and don't know names. But it's more likely they will remember a big name movie so they do that.

I will be very impressed if that movie is worse than his other war movie.

I saw this last night, and it was very good. Way to go, Mel Gibson! Anyway, it was gory, but not too bad. It was very reminiscent of the starting scene of Saving Private Ryan in its gore.

I enjoyed telling my wife about how it was after I got home. She's Japanese, so I got to say her people were very savage in this movie.

Awesome movie, was very surprised.

Saw this over the weekend, really enjoyed it. For anyone else, if you enjoyed this, I highly recommend the documentary The Conscientious Objector (2004) - IMDb . The footage at the end was taken from this documentary. It goes in to a lot more depth then the movie did.

Good movie, but a lot of the basic? scenes seem ham-fisted after the initial VV scene in the barracks. I understand they had to tread lightly not to mimick some of FMJ's scenes, but I thought the bulk of "burdens of convictions" arch was poorly done and they did a hack job of setting the scene (culturally and era-wise - especially in comparison to BoB's religious jabs) for why it was so outlandish for a CO to be there when in actuality there were a lot of CO's working for the War Department in a variety of roles (including military service). To me it came off as Hollywood trying to perform a Benediction instead of simply letting history and his actions speak for themselves.

Also don't see the gore comments - I thought SPR and BoB had infinitely higher levels of gore simply from the depth of detail they took with each wound. Or did you mean the amount of shots involving someone getting shot before cutting away to see another? Besides a few legs coming off, the majority of the wounded you couldn't even tell they were injured aside from some blood, bloody clothes /faces - how is that a gory movie? Are you forgetting the entrails, exploding bodies, blood spray, and general chaos of SPR Normandy, Kiroy?

I would definitely recommend the movie for at leaste a single watch, especially if you don't know anything about the story. I wouldn't put it up there with SPR, BHD, or BoB though.

Loved this and agree with those saying its better than Arrival. Probably my favorite of the Oscar screeners that have came out