Okinawa

My Father, LCDR Frank Bernard Quady, USN, was killed aboard the USS Bunker Hill by a double kamikaze attack. For my Father, I say this movie was so bad I quit about half an hour into it.

The guy who played the sailor with the cap pulled down ridiculously was absolutely disgusting. No sailor would wear his cap on like that except possibly at home cleaning out the gutters.

Note: This guy was the "star" of the film – the part that I watched. I couldn't force myself to watch any more.

I grew up in the '50s in Coronado, CA and this movie never played there, as far as I know. I never heard of this flick.

I'll have to rent it sometime and watch only the official U.S. Navy footage, fast forwarding past the stupid sailor, whoever he is or was.

I didn't see any U.S. Naval personnel listed as advisers. They surely would have nixed it.

One more thing about the stupid sailor. He was a disgrace to all sailors. Sailors are the heart of the Navy.

Tonight I tried watching "Okinawa" and wow was I disappointed. While the film should have been an inspiring epic with a cast of thousands, it's a crappy, cheap little film with a cast of dozens! In other words, although the invasion of Okinawa took thousands and thousands of soldiers, the filmmakers thought they'd cleverly avoid this expense. So, they used LOTS of stock footage of the invasion and has a group of bad actors (or at least actors with really bad dialog) ham it up and pretend that a war is on....though they really do NOTHING! Scene after scene literally consist of folks talking about the war and describing what's happening!! They really do very little and the film looks almost like what a war film by Ed Wood would look like! Just terrible in every way and not worth your time or effort.

This film doesn't do justice to the Battle for Okinawa. I highly recommend "Battle of Okinawa in Color".

The two stars are for the men who fought in Okinawa; i served there in the 412th Transportation Co in 1968. I have seen every film ever made about WW 2, which is in the hundreds, and this one, by far, is the worst of all of them.

The film is merely a collection of stock footage, and not one scene is filmed on the island itself. The "action" in the film comes in the last five minutes of an hour quickie made by some sleazy Hollywood exec who figured he could squeeze out a few bucks from the name of the battle. Hopefully, he is roasting somewhere right now.

There is no acting or directing in this "film"; it is mostly stock footage. The poor guy who did most of the work in this movie was the editor. Pathetic.

I was in the navy during the vietnam war. I was deployed to vietnam twice and served on several different navy ships. The characters in this movie would have fit right in with the rest of us.