Blatantly OT topic - Thin Red Line

[testarossa]

Stalingrad is a great movie. Iron Cross is a good one too.

To the list of the bad ones: U-571.

Althoug may by it was filmed originally as comedy or parody in an effort to outdo Norman Wisdom with his "Mr. Pitkin" flicks.

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

For me the best WWII war movie is "Das Boot".

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0082096/

This is also the very first DVD I bought (director's cut = 210 minutes - still shorter than original TV show which I also saw but it was remastered and has great picture and sound)....


Similarly for me the best WWI war movie is "Aces High"

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0075627/


BTW, I remember watching one Russian WWII move where there was no dialogue at all. I watched it on TV when I was teenager on TV (thus 20+ years ago) and it made lasting impression on me. For the love of God I can't remember the name but I think it could be "Ivanovo detstvo" (My Name is Ivan).

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0056111/


Leo "Apollo11"

[IronDuke_slith]

I realised after watching this movie why Malik makes so few. I was bored %%^&less. The constant celebrity cameos were a distraction, and half the characters they protrayed looked written just to get them in it, not add anything. After SPR, the Battle scenes looked a little plastic to me, alright for pre SPR, lacking post SPR.

To round it all off, it seemed the premise of the movie was that somehow, an American Army unit had been recruited exclusively from Philosophy campuses up and and down America. The idea behind this new unit seemed to be to bore the Japanese to death, perhaps driving them to commit suicide and thus save Allied lives and time flushing them out of their bunkers. Some of the Allied characters were so boring, it was a relief when they got shot.

Although slightly overdone, the only character who looked like they belonged on a WWII battlefield was Nolte's. The movie was almost watchable whenever he was on screen.

Regards,
IronDuke

P.S. Von Murrin, I read that you suggested the movie would have benefitted from a couple of extra hours. I disagree, but then I don't have trouble sleeping [;)].

P.P.S. The movie may not have been shot on location, but I believe those responsible should have been. [;)]

[velkro]

WORST! movie I ever saw...absolute crap...horrible...even Travolta was horrible...

[WhoCares]

ORIGINAL: jnier
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http://www.pacificwrecks.com/people/vis ... /sims.html

The author of the site doesn't think too highly of the movie, because very little of the film was actually shot on Guadalcanal (was mostly shot in OZ according to the website). But IMHO, I think there is a pretty strong similarity between the actual site and the site used in the movie.

How can he blame them for not shooting the film on Guadalcanal? If you check the whole page linked, you will see how much live ammo is still lying around, barbed wire, ...

For me the most overdone part was the shots of the IJA prisoners groaning, crying, and looking depressed. I got that with the first camera pan. Six minute later your'll still watching the camera pan. Why?

Worr, out

Probably to show everyone that war is an ugly business. Boring as hell most of the time, ugly as hell once the serious fighting is going on. In most war movies you just see dead people and on a rare occasion some wounded. Often enough it was the other way around. And usually, they just show a short pan of some dead and wounded and then 10 seconds later nothing of this is seen anymore. Unfortunatly it wasn't always that easy to escape such horrors. And it is a good way to show the blunting of the soldiers, standing around chatting and smoking.
For those looking for a more romantic picture of the war, I suggest to look Pearl Harbor [;)]