Flagging a Dead Horse

Advantages: A solid ensemble of actors.
Disadvantages: A lack of emotional depth and sometimes clumsy direction.

...During the later stages of World War Two, American interest in the conflict was waning. This was also true of military morale and financial contributions to the war effort. The US government was desperate for a symbol to rally behind. They got in the form of now iconic image "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima", which depicts five Marines and one Navy Corpsman raising the Stars and Stripes on Mount Suribachi. Pulling the three surviving flag-raisers out of combat, they bring them home to front the government's fundraising War Bond Tour. But the men are uncomfortable with their new-found celebrity, considering the real heroes to be those who died on Iwo Jima. I consider Clint Eastwood a reliable, workmanlike director rather than an innovative one. Stylistically this film takes a slightly different tack to his normally talky movies. Visually...

afy9mab 16.09.2007 · Read review
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Green Flag. Just call them The Professionals!

Advantages: Good service
Disadvantages: None

...I do not use Green Flag. (I do not drive) But my boss does, and he is full of stories about how very good Green Flag are. I will let you in to a secret. Most of the recovery vehicles that come out to you when you break down and you call your favourite motoring organisation are not employed by the motoring organisation that you are a member of! It's true! What happens is that, unless there happens to be a patrol officer who is with your organisation really fairly close to you, they will call a local recovery operator to deal with your vehicle and to tow it to a garage or, if necessary, take it on to you destination. This is exactly what Green Flag does. But you need not worry as every operator they use has to go through an extremely rigorous programme of selection and subsequent re-checking to ensure they are good enough to...

Martinscholes 16.01.2006 · Read review
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Six Flags Baby

Advantages: read opp
Disadvantages: read opp

...Well this will be my last official review of any experiences I have had in North America, until I visit Miami in a month's time. Now this next review focuses more on a specific attraction site, or theme park that I went to whilst visiting Chicago, now im writing about it because most people are think that the big theme parks are all in Florida, however my review will suggest other wise. My review is on my experience of visiting "Six Flags Great America" theme park in Chicago. Now most of you who have read my reviews have known that is spent some time in different American States, I went to Chicago twice, once at the start and once at the end, namely because I had family located there. So my last visit in Chicago, which lasted four days, included a visit to one of the most magnificent theme parks I have seen, yet never heard of before...

jaygami1986 28.02.2008 · Read review
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Review of Six Flags Hurricane Harbor, Chicago

Green Flag vs RAC

Advantages: GF very quick
Disadvantages: none really

...Having used the RAC and Green Flag over recent years, I have no hesitation in recommending Green Flag. Also as an ex employee of Green Flag, I know the company quite well. Both companies offer various rates of cover from about £40 up to about £130 from basic breakdown cover to services such as European / caravan cover. Also they offer other services but I am going to talk about the car breakdown service I have recieved from the 2 companies. My old Peugout(sp) was on its last legs and so breakdown cover was a necessity. Whilst with the RAC, I needed 3 breakdown calls, which meant my no claims bonus which they offer ( to deter flat tyre / flat battery / other waste of time calls) went out of the window. The guy came after about an hour (which would have netted me a tenner with Green Flag) and had a look, decided my battery was flat...

sjl02 28.03.2001 · Read review
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Green Flagging maybe

Advantages: Rapid Response garantee
Disadvantages: Had to wait for ages

...Ok, I'll admit that up until about a week ago I always thought having breakdown cover was the equivalent of spending £90 odd a year for someone to come out and change a tyre for you, or bring you some petrol. A waste of money in other words. However, a week ago we were going to go to Southampton for the weekend to visit the in-laws. As we had bought a new car and not really given it a good blast down the motorway, we joined Green Flag through Churchill Insurance. Thank god we did! The oil pump went on our car, and as we were nearly there we carried on going, oblivious to the trouble and damage we were causing. To be honest, we thought we were out of water or oil or something else and that was why it was overheating. Anyway, we were wrong. As it happens, we got to the in-laws just as the engine started to make horrible...

Biffa 20.05.2001 · Read review
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Review of Green Flag

Green Flag UPDATE

Advantages: easy to arrange hire car
Disadvantages: if they agree to let you have one

...###### UPDATE 11/10/02 ###### The next installment: Green Flag took the van away to a garage (yesterday afternoon) for an estimate on repair costs. They explained that it was too late to have a thorough look at it so they would do it in the morning. (If they hadn't messed about so long it wouldn't have been too late). Pete is now stuck in the house (which is in the middle of nowhere!) with no food or drink (ok, there's apples on the tree in the garden and water in the tap!). He has a dead mobile phone battery, no way of charging up his phone (as he was using the vans cigarette lighter), and we have no land line in the house, so he can't even phone for a taxi. GF know all this but won't let him have a hire car until they know if he's going to get the car repaired! So, this morning we find out that the garage need to take out...

teaseme_not 10.10.2002 (11.10.2002) · Read review
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Review of Green Flag

Green Flag - European Cover

Advantages: None
Disadvantages: Extremely poor service

...Having use Green Flag recently in France I would strongly suggest that if you need European Cover please look elsewhere. They were an nightmare. I was left 3 hours in the heat after calling the second time I was told it was going to be another 1.5 hrs!!. I eventually had to limp to where I was staying with dodgy wheel bearings as they didnt turn up. When I eventually got back the car was picked up 1.5 hours later. They then left me without a car for over 24hours. I was staying in a little hamlet in France with no shops therefre I couldnt get any food for the family. The car I got was smaller than mine and therefore with five passengers it was too small. By theway Green Flag state that they are only there to assist passengers and are not responsibile for luggage. I wouldnt mind but we only had holdalls and in a small Clio they...

ellieiow 05.09.2008 · Read review
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A thumbs up for Green Flag

Advantages: Quick service, free number if calling from landline phone
Disadvantages: charged if call from a mobile phone!

...My husband has been a member of Green Flag for about 4 years now. Until then he always used the AA but got basic Green Flag free with his motor insurance, he then pays an additional £36 per year to upgrade to full membership. In the last year we have had to call them out 5 times. Each time the call was answered quickly and politely. Our details were found easily, even when I didn't have the policy number or anything as I had got a call from my husband asking me to ring them from home to avoid the call charges. Each time they have come out they have been there within half an hour, and as little as 5 minutes. They use the services of garages local to where you are when you breakdown which I suppose helps a lot because the driver will have local knowledge of the area and so can find you quicker! 4 out fo the 5 times they have...

tarara 10.04.2003 · Read review
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Review of Green Flag

Good service from Green flag

Advantages: Good response time.Helpful staff
Disadvantages: None

...Ive been member of the TSB motoring club now for 5 years, and this was the first time I had to use them on Saturday.Normally I have a car which I well service myself up to a high standard.If I breakdown I can normally get myself going again. But on Saturday some little toerag decided to pinch my sporty looking 1600 Fiesta.After the police where informed a think the driver panicked when he saw a police car and decided to drive of across a field, but because of metal barriers the car didnot want to go, so it fell to bits in a bad way. The police where going to arrange recovery but warned me if I didnot claim on my insurance they would charge me for picking up the vehicle.I rang Green flag and they asked the right details about what had happened.I think because they asked was the vehicle free wheeling.They sent the right kind...

bazza1603 06.02.2001 · Read review
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very nice green flag

Advantages: good way to waste money
Disadvantages: very rude, cover is useless,

...I took out full cover for a hoilday in Tenby. When my car started overheating and i needed a tow home. I phoned up Green flag and they said I had no cover. I gave them my reference number then they said i was only cover for a local tow and i will be charged. So i quoted my cover terms and conditions. They then confirmed i had full cover. Then the garage phoned to tell me my car could be pick up today (friday) but would not be repaired till thursday. I said I wanted a tow home where the lady on the phone for the garage told me very rudely that i would be charged for a tow home. Phoned green flag again to confirm I had full cover and that a tow home is covered in the full cover as stated im section two of the terms and condition all confirmed the tow home is cover and i will not be charged. Well i bet you can tell where this is going...

jonip20 31.05.2008 · Read review
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