Oh my gawdedited link.please click this looks reall interesting
Oh my gawdedited link.please click this looks reall interesting
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My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
Damn wheres the trailer?
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Click on the "trailer" tab and then double click on the picture below with the "play" button superimposed on it.
It does look interesting.
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Saving Private Ryan is one of the greatest war films ever? Since when?
Wow. I hope this is what it seems. The grim realities of being a grunt in the Suck.
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I've always considered "We Were Soldiers" to be a better movie.Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro
It looks intersting SFTS.
Wine is a bit different, as I am sure even kids will like it.
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~Texas proverb
Since it came out pretty much.Saving Private Ryan is one of the greatest war films ever? Since when?
I've always considered "We Were Soldiers" to be a better movie.![]()
Good though like most of Gibsons movies in that genre. But not better than Saving Private Ryan.
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What about Gallipoli? Or the Thin Red Line? Or Glory?
I don't know, Saving private ryan just seemed like a shoot em up to me.
Good morning vietnam, mash, the great escape, the bridge over the river kwai, the longest day, the african queen, lawrence of arabia...
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Don't forget Breaker Morant and Laurence of Arabia.
That looks pretty impressive. I will see it one way or the other.
SPR was a cultural phenomenon. It led to a huge surge in interest in WW2 that spawned crap like Thin Red Line.![]()
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I'll second Sasaki's vote for The Thin Red Line. Never seen a war film that made me feel more like I was there, or gave me more sympathy for the fear and horror the soldiers experience in the line of duty.
Ajax
edit: The action in Saving Private Ryan was very nice, especially the opening scene, but I felt the movie superimposed some modern ideas about the reasons for fighting over the story, the anachronism triggering my context pet peeve that survives so few history flicks intact.
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Pfft, whatever. No where near SPR.Or the Thin Red Line
OT, this looks interesting.
CR
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For your information 'A Bridge too Far' is the best war movie of all time. After all it's got Hannibal Lectur in it as well.
Ohh and it's got my best mates brother in it as he was in 2 Para at the time. (They used the Parachute Regiment as extras)
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Saving private Ryan isn´t even the greates war movie of the last 10 years......that one goes to Black Hawk Down...easy.Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro
Saving Private Ryan has maybe the most intense opening 10 minutes ever put on film though.
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"Saving Private Ryan" was good, as was "Thin Red Line".
"Gallipoli" was a load of crap, all it did was demonise certain people, why not a movie from the Turks perspective?
"Laurence of Arabia" and "The Great Escape" are some of my all time favourites.
The series "Over There" was not bad if you saw that, a bit to drama-ish, but good none-the-less.
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I thought the Korean move "Brotherhood" was a pretty horrific and grim picture of war. Blood, executions, explosions, childhood friends shooting each other, more blood, civilians being executed by vigilantes. All grim.
Oh yeah that's the one with that last words of the dying kidOriginally Posted by BigTex
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'I......am.......proud....to...have....gasp...grggggggggg.......served.....my......country....gggggg ggggggggggggg'![]()
I never knew war could be so hilarious.
well if you guys want a movie without patriotism watch 'when trumpets fade'. It has a coward as main character and when he finaly does something more then hide and run he get's killed.
Originally Posted by Drone
Originally Posted by TinCow
That is a good movie, but I wouldn't kill the main character a coward, he is just sick of it. 'shit flows down'Originally Posted by Peasant Phill
That movie has some serious gore in it by the way, even worse then Saving Private Ryan, squirming limbless dying people![]()
The only good part about saving private ryan was the D-Day scene - after that it all go's down hill esspecially the last battle against Waffen-SS Tigers... the Tiger Tanks wernt even close to Normandy...
Yes, Black Hawk Down is the only movie mentioned here that I have on DVD.Originally Posted by Ronin
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It kinda suffered from Disneyfication, opening scene was great. You guys should check out El Alemein, an Italian movie. Nothing really happens, maybe that is why it's so good.Originally Posted by Sir Moody
I liked "Band of Brothers"...
May I add two classic war movies: "Apocalypse now" and "Platoon".
Oh, and "The Deer Hunter" (all three Vietnam, not WWII though).
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Ja mata, TosaInu
Originally Posted by Prince of the Poodles
Thin Red Line was in production before SPR.
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Last episode rocks, remember that gun captain Winters stole? My father collected old weaponry, he was offered to buy that very gun from the guy that got it from that Winters fellow. Price was a bit too steep, despite the obvious coolness of having a gun that has belonged to both Naps and AdolfOriginally Posted by AndresTheCunning
[QUOTE=Ronin]Saving private Ryan isn´t even the greates war movie of the last 10 years......that one goes to Black Hawk Down...easy.[QUOTE]
Sanity at last. Although it can't really class as a film "Band of Brothers" for me.
How did this turn into a best war movies thread? This is a documentary shot with a home video camera not some hollywood production.
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Okay, grumpy. How about Gunner Palace?
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