Trying to find a movie.

**Veho Nex** · 03-30-2009, 08:23

Hi question for you movie watchers out there.

There is a movie like this based in WW1 but in color about a (brigade/patrol/group) trapped in the forest I saw a few years back(when I was 7) The movie had a plane flying over head the soldiers keeping the commanders informed until he is killed at the end of the movie. Maybe one of you would know the name?

Its a War flick, and I think it was world war one.

Also its not The lost patrol (1934) I think it might be newer and may be about ww2

If I can remember more details I'll post them but google has lead me to no avail

**Fragony** · 03-30-2009, 09:40

Sounds like The Lost Battalion

**Veho Nex** · 03-30-2009, 14:59

That could be it! Net flix awwwaaaayyyyyy

**Veho Nex** · 03-31-2009, 19:44

Hey guys great job on the last movie.

Now im looking for a new one

It happens to have been made 1998 about a producer who gets government funding to make a far left play. There's more info to this but im asking for a friend and forgot most of what he set for it.

**TinCow** · 03-31-2009, 20:16

Cradle Will Rock. 1999, not 1998, but I'm almost positive that's what you're talking about.

**Pannonian** · 03-31-2009, 21:19

A couple of Vietnam movies.

Film A I think is a 1980s movie, maybe 1970s, set in Vietnam. A cameraman is going out with an American patrol. There are all the archetypes of the genre. The film ends with the remains of the patrol getting to a clearing with waiting helicopters, while under attack, and not all of them get on before the choppers go (but the cameraman does). The film is filmed entirely from the cameraman's POV.

Film B is an odd one. It's split into at least two parts. The first part takes the American POV. I can't remember much of it, but the segment ends with someone being sniped while at base, then everyone gets under cover and calls on the heavies to deal with the sniper. The second part takes the Vietnamese POV. A Vietnamese boy experiences all kinds of stuff, until he picks up a rifle and stakes out the local US base. He shoots someone before his grandad can stop him, then the segment ends with them waiting for the air strike the base has called on them.

**Veho Nex** · 03-31-2009, 22:05

I got to say you guys are good at this.

**TinCow** · 03-31-2009, 22:11

Originally Posted by Pannonian

A couple of Vietnam movies.

Film A I think is a 1980s movie, maybe 1970s, set in Vietnam. A cameraman is going out with an American patrol. There are all the archetypes of the genre. The film ends with the remains of the patrol getting to a clearing with waiting helicopters, while under attack, and not all of them get on before the choppers go (but the cameraman does). The film is filmed entirely from the cameraman's POV.

Film B is an odd one. It's split into at least two parts. The first part takes the American POV. I can't remember much of it, but the segment ends with someone being sniped while at base, then everyone gets under cover and calls on the heavies to deal with the sniper. The second part takes the Vietnamese POV. A Vietnamese boy experiences all kinds of stuff, until he picks up a rifle and stakes out the local US base. He shoots someone before his grandad can stop him, then the segment ends with them waiting for the air strike the base has called on them.

Film A - 84 Charlie MoPic

Film B - Vietnam War Story: The Last Days

**Pannonian** · 04-01-2009, 19:35

Originally Posted by TinCow

Film A - 84 Charlie MoPic

Film B - Vietnam War Story: The Last Days

Cheers.

Is anyone here familiar with Hammer Horror type films? There's one I faintly remember, but whose identity I am utterly at a loss with. This couple go into a house, where they meet the landlord. At some point they are trapped in a pit or something, but for some reason the evil landlord is there with them. They manage to off the landlord, but they then realise that, with the landlord gone, there is no way of escaping, and the film ends with them fruitlessly looking for a way out. For some reason I associate it with Hammer Horror, but it might have been an Alfred Hitchcock Presents kind of short film.

**TinCow** · 04-01-2009, 21:41

Originally Posted by Pannonian

Cheers.

Is anyone here familiar with Hammer Horror type films? There's one I faintly remember, but whose identity I am utterly at a loss with. This couple go into a house, where they meet the landlord. At some point they are trapped in a pit or something, but for some reason the evil landlord is there with them. They manage to off the landlord, but they then realise that, with the landlord gone, there is no way of escaping, and the film ends with them fruitlessly looking for a way out. For some reason I associate it with Hammer Horror, but it might have been an Alfred Hitchcock Presents kind of short film.

Ok, that's stumped me. Do you remember if it was in black and white? If so, based on the ending, it sounds like something from original Twilight Zone or Outer Limits television shows (or Hitchcock, as you suggest). If it was in color, I would guess the new versions of the Twilight Zone or Outer Limits, with Tales from the Crypt and The Ray Bradbury Theater as other options.

The reasoning for this is that the ending you describe is a non-Hollywood (read: unhappy) ending. While they have been used from time to time, they are rare today and even rarer in older films. However, this kind of ending is very typical of horror genre short stories, and thus became common in television shows and movies which were themselves simply anthologies of those short stories. The above listed programs are the most prominent ones I can think of that fit the bill.

**Veho Nex** · 04-02-2009, 04:48

I must say, looking at this is insane, you guys are really really good. as to pannonians request alas I know not.

**Ramses II CP** · 04-03-2009, 13:02

Originally Posted by Pannonian

Cheers.

Is anyone here familiar with Hammer Horror type films? There's one I faintly remember, but whose identity I am utterly at a loss with. This couple go into a house, where they meet the landlord. At some point they are trapped in a pit or something, but for some reason the evil landlord is there with them. They manage to off the landlord, but they then realise that, with the landlord gone, there is no way of escaping, and the film ends with them fruitlessly looking for a way out. For some reason I associate it with Hammer Horror, but it might have been an Alfred Hitchcock Presents kind of short film.

Hmm, I'm pretty sure this is not an original B&W Twilight Zone episode. I've seen all the old ones and there was a marathon on Sci Fi last year that I caught about 75% of them again. Actually you can watch them all online (legally); I've lost that link but it shouldn't be hard to check.

It could be an Outer Limits plotline.

**Veho Nex** · 04-05-2009, 21:32

Ok so I got lost battalion in the mail yesterday and watched it last night. It was exactly the movie I was thinking of. Thanks!

**quadalpha** · 03-31-2009, 22:35

Originally Posted by Veho Nex

(when I was 7)

You know it doesn't help us if you don't say how old you are now!

**Veho Nex** · 03-31-2009, 23:39

Originally Posted by quadalpha

You know it doesn't help us if you don't say how old you are now!

Well it was 2001 so that would put me 11 but it seemed like when i used to live at my old house out in the sticks. Sorry I was a bit off on the original times.

**miotas** · 04-01-2009, 18:12

anyone know this one? a movie about a small country that declares war on america because they were hoping to loose but america surrendered because they thought the small country must have a superweapon?

**drone** · 04-01-2009, 18:21

The Mouse That Roared.

**miotas** · 04-01-2009, 18:43

cheers

**Veho Nex** · 08-20-2009, 18:57

Go thread necromancy! I command thee rise!

So here's another brain buster for our fantastic movie goers.

I'm looking for a movie that starts off with two older brothers giving their younger brother a hard time, IE throwing firecrackers into a pool while he is tied to a chair at the bottom of it. The movie is about going into the wild and filming it, during the movie they meet crocodile man and a group of not so friendly bears. It's name continues to allude me, but I know the beginning song is born to be wild.

**TinCow** · 08-20-2009, 21:57

Originally Posted by Veho Nex

Go thread necromancy! I command thee rise!

So here's another brain buster for our fantastic movie goers.

I'm looking for a movie that starts off with two older brothers giving their younger brother a hard time, IE throwing firecrackers into a pool while he is tied to a chair at the bottom of it. The movie is about going into the wild and filming it, during the movie they meet crocodile man and a group of not so friendly bears. It's name continues to allude me, but I know the beginning song is born to be wild.

Wild America