BOB was amazing. I can't wait for the dvd. I plan on sitting my father ( 4 bronze stars from Luzon, Leyte Guly, Manila where he was wounded and Corregidor , Japan victory medal, and others) down in front of my 60 inch big screen as I did for Saving Private Ryan. He was in the 564th Engineer Special Brigade and landed on more beaches than he can remember, and he says the beginning scene of SPR was relatively realistic, only that there weren't enough Landing craft destroyed by mortar, howitzer or tank rounds...oh and let's not forget the submerged mines.
My question is this: When are Spielberg and Hanks gonna realize there was a Pacific theatre during the big one? My father and many others shed blood from New Guinea northward to Okinawa and the only recent film was that piece of crap A thin line or something. It's time the men who fought in the heat and malaria-ridden jungles of the South Pacific get the Spielberg war treatment. If anyone wants a comparison of German genocide vs. Japanese, ask China.
Cheers