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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Having seen the movie on the weekend, I'm not sure why a school class would go see it. There isn't all that much historical about it, aside from the text opening and closing.
I liked it overall, though it had probably the sharpest lines between being a war movie and a romance movie I've ever seen. Gross basically cut an entirely different movie into the middle of his war film. Some really witty dialogue at times, but a lot of places where better writing would have helped.
Gotta say though, Gross really upstaged hollywood when it comes to the quality of the battle scenes. He did more with a $25 million budget than most hollywood war movies do with $150 million.
It was strange watching a movie mostly set in Calgary, where Calgary is Calgary and not Denver. 
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Well for grade 10 Canadian history, I suppose they thought it was relevant, but their reasons for showing kids movies in high school classes, I find suspect at times for sure. Actually my older son found that class interesting, which was amazing for him, the Canadian military history in WWI and WWII is pretty cool, plus of course his Grandpa, my Dad, is a veteran of WWII who was captured at Dieppe.