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Post by Far Rider on Jan 29, 2006 15:41:52 GMT -8
Now, I have seen several movies lately that I have had to force myself to sit through, and I was absorbed in this one from the first frame. To me, the love story, while it didn't add to the movie, didn't detract from it, either. "Private Ryan" is in a class by itself. I wasn't expecting a movie of that caliber, so I wasn't disappointed. I haven't seen "Band Of Brothers". Is John Kerry in it?  |
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Post by 101ABN on Jan 29, 2006 17:10:46 GMT -8
"Now, I have seen several movies lately that I have had to force myself to sit through, and I was absorbed in this one from the first frame."
It wasn't a bad movie all in all, just could have been a little tighter in spots.
A film about the Pilipino resistance would be a film worth making.
Set a few evenings aside for B of B. It's based on Stephen Ambrose's book about Easy Company of the 506th PIR in WWII from the activation of the 101st at Camp Toccoa, GA to the end of the war (We had dinner with some of these guys at the Division reunon in Reno a few years back).
It's a miniseries, about 8 hours long. Each episode is prefaced with interview segments of the actual soldiers involved.
It's worth seeing and will give you a very un-pc perspective on fighting to win.
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Post by tits on Jan 29, 2006 21:21:10 GMT -8
be another Windtalker piece of crap.
There was one POW movies of a few years ago that I caught on the HD channel last year. WOW!
"To End All Wars" Japanese captors during World War II force four Allied POWs to build a railroad through the treacherous Burmese jungle wilderness. Based on a true story and starring Robert Carlyle and Kiefer Sutherland.
Another movie that I found very real considering the BS of administrative details was "No Man's Land" The foreign-language Oscar nominee is a dark tale of a Bosnian and Serb soldier trapped in a trench with another soldier resting on a booby-trapped land mine. I believe that it was French made film, but it was great.
I like foreign films with subtitles, it seems to add something to the reality. The funny thing is that after the film, I have to think to recall that it had subtitles.
I have a few German and Japenese movies about the war. Talk about stark and depressing. Their view of the war from a post war perspective is anything but grand and glorious.
My two favorite were "Stalingrad:Dog do you want to live forever" and "The Westfront" 1930.
The Japanese films, "Back Rain" 1950 (Hiroshima movie) and "The Grand Fleet" ( Toshiro Mifune), but "I Bombed Pearl Harbor", and "Kamakazi Pilot" (Toshiro Mifune) are close second as far as Imperial Japanese Navy epics go.
Toshiro Mifune was actually a IJA pilot during the war. He was pressed into service and flew several aircraft including a Kate in China.
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Post by 101ABN on Jan 29, 2006 22:24:18 GMT -8
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Post by Far Rider on Jan 30, 2006 2:08:55 GMT -8
I have a copy of "To End All Wars".
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Post by MrDoublel on Jan 30, 2006 23:16:11 GMT -8
Well, you know hollywood. They can't just tell the story as is. They think it makes the movie "better".
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