OT: A down and dirty top 10 or To help and purge the forum

[anarchyintheuk]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

[biting but good-natured sarcasm on] Well, that explains it. So Kelly's Heroes was a Pacific Theater movie? I dadgum well knew that it didn't portray anything in Europe. [biting but good-natured sarcasm off]

Kelly's Heroes is not a WWII movie. It's a Vietnam movie. And a terrible one at that. I realize there's a solid subset of decent AE Matrix Forums folks that like this movie, but you guys just have scales over your eyes. One day those scales will fall from your eyes and you will be mortified that you had any good thought about this movie.

If I had to choose WWII Pacific-Theater movies, my list wood begin strong and quickly taper off, in this order: Mr. Roberts, Tora Tora Tora, Bridge over the River Kwai, the two modern Iwo Jima Movies, Midway (they really tried to do this one right), and that would be about it.

If anybody dares to list Thin Red Line or Windtalkers....

Gigantic +1. Always hated that film.

I liked Thin Red Line except for some really poor casting choices and a couple of guys that acted w/ all the intenstiy of someone needing a mortgage payment.

There's really no excuse for Nick Cage or Windtalkers. Personally, I thought it was worse than TMTMNBN. Kate Beckinsale can make up for a lot.

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: AZ Gung Ho

I agree on They Were Expendable.

If we're going for ETO movies as well you have to have the Battle of Britain in there - great film.

I would probably put Sands of Iwo Jima in there too.

Well, if we are adding ETO movies, this opens a whole slew of stuff, everything from The Longest Day to A Bridge to Far to Band of Brothers (miniseries).

The ORIGINAL Thin Red Line (1964) was pretty good, iirc, but it's been a LONG time since i have seen it.

I'd add Letters from Iwo Jima and the Japanese movie about Midway (which i think appeared in the US as I Bombed Pearl Harbor should also be on the list... it has been a long time since i've seen the latter, and i can not find it for sale on DVD in English (or even subtitled). Flags of Our Fathers should also make the list.

It seems to me that the ETO movies are much better than the PTO genre (in general).

[mike scholl 1]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

Sorry, Mike, but thou hast scales over thine eyes.

My dad is an 86-year-old US Army veteran who served in Europe during World War II. He's still in great shape, physically and mentally, and if you dare - DARE - ask him what he thinks of Kelly's Heroes, you're going to get an earfull of expletives that will make your grandma cringe. And my father doesn't curse.

Well, my Dad (unfortunately no longer with us) served in Europe too..., and he liked the movie. Said he'd met the Don Rickles character in person (the Sgt. who could get you ANYTHING---for a price).

[sprior]

Empire of the Sun

The Long and the Short and the Tall

Too Late the Hero

[Misconduct]

ORIGINAL: anarchyintheuk

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

[biting but good-natured sarcasm on] Well, that explains it. So Kelly's Heroes was a Pacific Theater movie? I dadgum well knew that it didn't portray anything in Europe. [biting but good-natured sarcasm off]

Kelly's Heroes is not a WWII movie. It's a Vietnam movie. And a terrible one at that. I realize there's a solid subset of decent AE Matrix Forums folks that like this movie, but you guys just have scales over your eyes. One day those scales will fall from your eyes and you will be mortified that you had any good thought about this movie.

If I had to choose WWII Pacific-Theater movies, my list wood begin strong and quickly taper off, in this order: Mr. Roberts, Tora Tora Tora, Bridge over the River Kwai, the two modern Iwo Jima Movies, Midway (they really tried to do this one right), and that would be about it.

If anybody dares to list Thin Red Line or Windtalkers....

Gigantic +1. Always hated that film.

I liked Thin Red Line except for some really poor casting choices and a couple of guys that acted w/ all the intenstiy of someone needing a mortgage payment.

There's really no excuse for Nick Cage or Windtalkers. Personally, I thought it was worse than TMTMNBN. Kate Beckinsale can make up for a lot.

Windtalkers should be banned with the other film about Pearl Harbor...

[lolz]

nice list,i'd add tora tora tora! to that.

[scott64]

I would add the recent The Raid from a few years ago. [:)][8D]

[Canoerebel]

This weekend, my wife and daughter brought home from the library Caught in the Draft, a 1941 movie starring Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour. We popped it in, not really expecting much. Four or five times we found ourselves holding our sides with laughter. There were some really funny scenes. One that my daughter got, but that I missed, occurs while Hope's character is in an army hospital. He happens to overhear an orderly talking to a patient being wheeled through the hosptital on a gurney. The patient (who, unbeknowst to Hope, has just learned that his wife had a baby) says, "I hope it's a boy!" Hope looks at this patient, who is laid flat on the gurney and holding his stomach, in a very funny way.

[terje439]

Am I the only one that liked the movie Yamato?
I for one would add that one to the list as well.

Terje

[topeverest]

They all dont have to be Das Boat, Come and See, or Saving Private Ryan

In Harms Way
From here to Eternity
run silent run deep

The Duke had several more that might be on someone's no no list. (FL, OP, SOIJ)

empire of the sun

And one dark horse for kicks...Hell in the pacific

All depends on the mood one might be in...

[Shark7]

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

In this case, one man is the tip of a gigantic iceberg that would rip the hull out of the flimsy craft carrying the handful of bedraggled, befuddled, bemused Kelly's Heroes fans. The movie reeks.

Shall we vote? [:D]

For a movie, it was entertaining. For anything other than pure fictional entertainment, it was not.

Then again, I think most of us are adult enough to realize that the whole plot of the European theatre was not a bank robbery. [;)]

Also, I can fully understand a WWII ETO Vet not liking it.

[YankeeAirRat]

Well I would decide not to watch movies like Tora, Tora, Tora; they were expendable, in harm's way; etc all cause I have seen them so many times that I could almost watch them without sound and quote lines of all the players. That being said, for those you that want "From Here to Eternity"; which version do you want Burt Lancaster/Frankie/Donna Reed or the William Devane/Natalie Wood/Kim Bassinger version? I have seen both and let me tell you what thirty years differences tween two directing and producing styles can do to a good story.

[Bullwinkle58]

ORIGINAL: YankeeAirRat

Well I would decide not to watch movies like Tora, Tora, Tora; they were expendable, in harm's way; etc all cause I have seen them so many times that I could almost watch them without sound and quote lines of all the players. That being said, for those you that want "From Here to Eternity"; which version do you want Burt Lancaster/Frankie/Donna Reed or the William Devane/Natalie Wood/Kim Bassinger version? I have seen both and let me tell you what thirty years differences tween two directing and producing styles can do to a good story.

I'd pay to watch Burt eat a sandwich. (There are only a few actors I'd say that about. Walter Matthau at the height of his powers would be another.) You can't improve on perfection. Go with the original.

[Misconduct]

wow someone had to go and post in the forum topic about *film we don't speak* now its going to be on top for another week.

I hate you all!

[Wikingus]

Letters from Iwo Jima, hands down. The rest I'd have to think about. Haven't seen Tora Tora Tora yet, but it's on my to-do list.

Anyone seen Flying Tigers yet? The basic plot always seemed appealing but I don't know if the movie as such is any good.

[warspite1]

In my opinion Tora Tora Tora is just a quality film [:)]

[Q-Ball]

I can't believe no one mentioned Letters from Iwo Jima. If you haven't seen it yet, DO SO. It's very good, and almost flawless.

It would be my #1

EDIT: OK, two posts behind me, but that took awhile!

[Canoerebel]

ORIGINAL: Q-Ball

I can't believe no one mentioned Letters from Iwo Jima. If you haven't seen it yet, DO SO. It's very good, and almost flawless.

It would be my #1

EDIT: OK, two posts behind me, but that took awhile!

Look again, Brad. I mentioned it in my post, which was near the beginning.

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

ORIGINAL: Q-Ball

I can't believe no one mentioned Letters from Iwo Jima. If you haven't seen it yet, DO SO. It's very good, and almost flawless.

It would be my #1

EDIT: OK, two posts behind me, but that took awhile!

Look again, Brad. I mentioned it in my post, which was near the beginning.

Beat you both on post #22 [:'(]

[JeffroK]

The "Merrill's Marauders" Movie gets a vote.

"30 Seconds over Tokyo" gets a vote.

"Objective Burma" gets a big NO vote.