I realized that I never really gave a review or thoughts on Restrepo; your life must be hanging in perpetual imbalance, for which I apologize. The recent TV premiere of Restrepo gave me another chance to watch the film and muster some thoughts, as well as remind me to spout my opinion here.
Photo courtesy of the Restrepo Facebook page: facebook.com/restrepothemovie
Restrepo, the award-winning documentary co-made by the author of War, is making its premiere on the National Geographic Channel next month. Mark your calendars, set your smartphone’s reminder app, set your DVR now for Monday November 29th at 9pm EST on the National Geographic Channel. Of course, if you’re reading this after that date, you’ll need to dig through the TV listings to find it.
The “movie version” of the book War has been making its way across the country in smaller Indie film theaters for the past many months. Not only has it generated a cult-like following of fans in less than a year, it leaves many unsuspecting folks wide-eyed and full of a perspective they’ve likely never thought of: the soldier’s daily life on the front line in the thick of it. All walks of life–pro-war, anti-war, service men and woman, military family members, Americans, non-Americans–have been checking this unbiased documentary out and pretty much all agree that it’s incredible in many ways. From raw footage recorded while on patrol with the subject platoon to deep thoughts with the soldiers (yes, they’re more than capable of that!), you’ll probably see and learn things previously unknown to you.
Enough build-up! Make time to watch this. If you have cable or satellite TV that gets the NatGeo channel, do yourself (and these guys who’ve sacrificed much to protect your butt–American or not) a huge favor and watch it at least once. It couldn’t get any easier. You don’t have to go to an old crummy theater that only hippies frequent. Fair warning though, I’m not sure if NatGeo is going to bleep out the bad words (which the film is chaulk-full of). If they don’t, it may not be a good idea to let little kids watch it. If they do, by all means let ‘em watch as there is little to no blood and guts. It’ll be one of the best history lessons they’ll ever get!
I’ll get my review (that i know you’re so dying to read, right) posted after the TV premiere. I saw the film only once int eh theater and I’d like to soak it in another time before putting thoughts together.
UPDATE: I just found out that the documentary premiere will air unedited and with limited commercial interruption. Keep this in mind for the little ones; it might be a bit rough for their ears.
On a whim the other day, I pulled up www.metallica.com just to see what’s going on at my old stomping grounds. I noticed a post in the discussion forum about James being in a new documentary called “Absent.” After following some links and digging around, I found the following trailer:
Big deal, right? James is just in another movie and Steve is getting excited because it’s something about Metallica–right?
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