Peleliu: Rakuen no Guernica

This one sounds more interesting than most of the World War II movies out there from the summary but it really isn't. The characters sound and act more like contemporary depressive herbivores than they do like people actually born a century ago and have designs that are more on the silly side - could potentially have been used for an aesthetic purpose but again, it's not. It does capture the accurate feeling that war has a lot more waiting around and looking for food than exciting combat, but only a more literal (boring) level - the emotion isn't there. The only parts worth mentioning are the descriptions of the environment in Palau - kind of cool but only present briefly (90% of the movie could be anywhere and it would make no difference) and the part where they debate whether news about the end of the war is real or not. That part was seriously held back by the rest of the movie being mid though. Overall just too by the numbers to be worth spending the two hours on