Men of Honor (2006, DVD)

Master Chief Sunday: The Navy Diver is not a fighting man, he is a salvage expert. If it is lost underwater, he finds it. If it's sunk, he brings it up. If it's in the way, he moves it. If he's lucky, he will die young, 200 feet beneath the waves, for that is the closest he'll ever get to being a hero. Men Of Honor (2000) Directed by George Tillman Jr. Robert De Niro as Master Chief Leslie W. 'Billy' Sunday Cuba Gooding Jr. as Carl Brashear The Storyline / plot Men Of Honor is a film based on the true story of the life of Carl Brashear. Carl had always been an avid swimmer. He would swim in...

This Memorial Day weekend, I decided to see a movie that would boil the patriotic blood in my veins one that would make me walk a little taller, a little prouder as I thought of all the sacrifices our men and women have made in the name of freedom, duty and honor. And so, I watched a movie that was as full of heroism as an overstuffed turkey. That movie was Men of Honor. The biopic about Carl Brashear, the first black Navy diver, may not have had as big a budget nor as many overpaid stars as its box office counterpart Pearl Harbor, but it certainly waved just as many flags and squeezed just...

Last night I watched the video "Men of Honor," in which Cuba Gooding, Jr gives, what I felt was an outstanding performance . He portrays a master diver in the United States Navy, the first African American to achieve this high-ranking position. His character, Carl Brashear, shows us how many obstacles one can overcome (including racism and a crippling injury), and just how indomitable the human spirit can be. He shows us how one can do all this and achieve his life's dream and in doing so make military history! It is truly a remarkable movie that lifted my spirits! The movie begins with Carl..

Rant Men of Honor should almost certainly have been made by HBO, since every other HBO film treats the subject of how blacks have gotten a raw deal in America. Unfortunately, HBO isn't the only media-purveyor to have discovered the 'safe haven' of films that purport to be anti-racist. I do not mean to suggest that the racial inequities of American history are insignificant, but I will say that it is just as possible to trivialize a subject by talking about it too much as it is to minimize it by refusing to discuss it at all. Take Lady Diana, for instance. She never did me any personal wrong,..