The Longest Day Movie

[stuman]

Longest Day is a good flick. That other movie sucks; when my wife and daughter watched not too long ago they very patiently let me point out the historical innaccuracies until I just got tired of talking.

Tora Tora Tora is a good movie I think. I like the cast of In Harms Way, but the movie isn't great.

[Canoerebel]

Cornelius Ryan was an excellent historian and writer - he died too young. Both The Longest Day and a Bridge Too Far are excellent examples of readable history.

Tora! Tora! Tora! is also a fine movie.

Ben Affleck is a terrible actor, but I just realized at least he wasn't a two-front schmuck. That distinction belongs to Nicholas Cage, an otherwise fine actor who had the misfortune of taking rolls in Windtalkers and Captain Corelli's Mandolin.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Torplexed
John Wayne as Genghis Khan? Perhaps history's worst piece of casting unless you count Denise Richards as a Bond Girl that's supposed to be a rocket scientist or Ben Affleck in anything.

[:D] I'm glad that I wasn't the only one that thought that Denise Richards screamed 'stupid brunette' totally miscast as a brainiac. She wasn't much better in Starship Troopers.

[anarchyintheuk]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Torplexed
John Wayne as Genghis Khan? Perhaps history's worst piece of casting unless you count Denise Richards as a Bond Girl that's supposed to be a rocket scientist or Ben Affleck in anything.

[:D] I'm glad that I wasn't the only one that thought that Denise Richards screamed 'stupid brunette' totally miscast as a brainiac. She wasn't much better in Starship Troopers.

Agreed. She had way too much clothing on in ST.

[Rob Brennan UK]

They'll be casting Jorden or Peter Andre next [:@].. they would make Denise Richards look plausable at least [;)]

Should have been Myleene Klass .. georgeous and intelligent ! .. humm might change my sig pic.

Anyhoo back OT .. Thin Red Line .. 2nd worst war movie ever made .. you know the worst one [:D]

[Grollub]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Torplexed
John Wayne as Genghis Khan? Perhaps history's worst piece of casting unless you count Denise Richards as a Bond Girl that's supposed to be a rocket scientist or Ben Affleck in anything.

[:D] I'm glad that I wasn't the only one that thought that Denise Richards screamed 'stupid brunette' totally miscast as a brainiac. She wasn't much better in Starship Troopers.

Agreed. But ST at least had a decent shower scene [:'(]

[JWE]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel
Ben Affleck is a terrible actor, but I just realized at least he wasn't a two-front schmuck. That distinction belongs to Nicholas Cage, an otherwise fine actor who had the misfortune of taking rolls in Windtalkers and Captain Corelli's Mandolin.

Hey, hey, hey! I liked Captain Corelli's Mandolin. Yeah, he was stiff, but that was a damn good movie. Where else do you see anything decent about Italians or Greeks.

[Canoerebel]

ORIGINAL: JWE

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel
Ben Affleck is a terrible actor, but I just realized at least he wasn't a two-front schmuck. That distinction belongs to Nicholas Cage, an otherwise fine actor who had the misfortune of taking rolls in Windtalkers and Captain Corelli's Mandolin.

Hey, hey, hey! I liked Captain Corelli's Mandolin. Yeah, he was stiff, but that was a damn good movie. Where else do you see anything decent about Italians or Greeks.

I dunno...The Guns of Navarone?

[Footslogger]

I think one of the forgotten movies is,"The Sand Pebbles"...

[rmielech]

ORIGINAL: Torplexed

The Longest Day was Sean Connery's last film before stepping into the role of James Bond. [;)]

BTW was this the only war film that John Wayne did where he was portrayed fighting in the European Theater? I seem to recall all his other war films were in the Pacific or Asia.

No. He also did Reunion in France in 1942 with Joan Crawford, I think. Never saw it, but apparently he's a downed flier in France trying to evade capture. Probably not much war footage. It's on TCM from time to time.

[henri51]

ORIGINAL: scott1964

Longest Days beats that other movie hands down. [:'(]

I watched it again yesterday from the DVD, and again I had forgotten that it is in black and white...

Henri

[olivier_slith]

The only good stuff in PH are the 10 min of special effects around the attack. Longest Day is riveting for 3 hours. The only better thing than this movie (LD) is the Avalon Hill game of the same title.

[kaleun]

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy


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ORIGINAL: Torplexed
John Wayne as Genghis Khan? Perhaps history's worst piece of casting unless you count Denise Richards as a Bond Girl that's supposed to be a rocket scientist or Ben Affleck in anything.
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I'm glad that I wasn't the only one that thought that Denise Richards screamed 'stupid brunette' totally miscast as a brainiac. She wasn't much better in Starship Troopers.
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Agreed. She had way too much clothing on in ST.

Of course, as eye candy.....(Hides from wife)

[Mike Scholl]

ORIGINAL: dhennin

The only good stuff in PH are the 10 min of special effects around the attack.

Even the "special effects" in PH are far to "Hollywoodized" to be considered good. It basically stinks on ice. [8|]

[Fishbed]

Actually the only shot worth of anything to me in PH was the sight of torpedoes running among floating sailors. That was impressive.

But well everything else... Just go get lost. How hard was it to make goddam CGI for the carriers just for them to look like something else than CVNs? I hate that.

[morganbj]

ORIGINAL: Mike Scholl

ORIGINAL: dhennin

The only good stuff in PH are the 10 min of special effects around the attack.

Even the "special effects" in PH are far to "Hollywoodized" to be considered good. It basically stinks on ice. [8|]

No, it just stinks. [8|]