If anyone ever needed an excuse...

[JudgeDredd]

...to pick up their telly and hurl it out the building...tonight is the night in the UK...Windtalkers is on Channel 5 at 9pm!! DO NOT (for your own sanity) tune in!!!

[berto]

Yeah, that movie was a real stinker.

[Terminus]

Whatever do you mean, JD? Windtalkers is an EXCELLENT film!

[sabre1]

Oh Yeah, it was my all time FAV movie...

[Toby42]

I "Donated" my copy to the Public Library!!!

[jackx]

I think I still have my copy somewhere... mildly entertaining action flick with a couple good HKBO-style shootouts, weighted down by a lot of wannabe-warmovie failure, IMHO.

Before I clicked on this, I thought you were going to be referring to the Eurovision Song Contest btw...

[Bamilus]

ORIGINAL: Treale

I "Donated" my copy to the Public Library!!!

Hahahaha [:D]

[ezzler]

[/align] [/align] [/align] 5.8/10 at IMD.

Seems very generous.

[ilovestrategy]

I liked it. Wasn't anywhere close to being authentic but I liked it. Have the dvd too. One war movie I never could watch as a kid and still can't is Battle of the Bulge. I can't stand that movie. 

[milkweg]

I have Windtalkers on DVD but only because it came in a war film bundle pack that had Tora! Tora! Tora!, Patton, The Thin Red Line, and Platoon. Don't anyone dis The Thin Red Line, I am a fan of all of Terrence Malick's movies and it was refreshing to see a war movie from the perspective he chose.

[Karri]

Windtalkers makes me want to stick needles into my eyes.

[sterckxe]

ORIGINAL: JudgeDredd
...to pick up their telly and hurl it out the building...tonight is the night in the UK...Windtalkers is on Channel 5 at 9pm!! DO NOT (for your own sanity) tune in!!!

This might come as a surprise for some but there's an ON/OFF button on most tv's [;)]

Last year, while in the US, I managed to pick up an autographed edition of the book which details the real story from first hand accounts and Marine archives

http://www.amazon.com/Navajo-Weapon-Tal ... 1887896325

Interesting read, but not really movie material if you keep strictly to what *really* happened, hence this Hollywood version.

Greetz,

Eddy Sterckx

[SlickWilhelm]

For a whole night's worth of self-loathing, might I suggest "Windtalkers" first, followed by "Pearl Harbor(or "Pearl Harbour" for JD)".

After watching those, you may want to

[Arctic Blast]

ORIGINAL: Slick Wilhelm

For a whole night's worth of self-loathing, might I suggest "Windtalkers" first, followed by "Pearl Harbor(or "Pearl Harbour" for JD)".

After watching those, you may want to

Pearl Harbor makes for great entertainment if you're with a group of buddies, all mocking it relentlessly. [:D]

[ilovestrategy]

ORIGINAL: Slick Wilhelm

For a whole night's worth of self-loathing, might I suggest "Windtalkers" first, followed by "Pearl Harbor(or "Pearl Harbour" for JD)".

After watching those, you may want to

I hear ya. Pearl Harbor was too much for me. Ugh

[D.Ilse]

As for Nick Cage's War movies, I liked and own Capt. Corelli's Mandolin.

yea it's a love story, but it does have Ju 87s in it, as well as the only Jagdpanzer 38(t) to serve in the Aegen. lol.

[SlickWilhelm]

ORIGINAL: Arctic Blast

Pearl Harbor makes for great entertainment if you're with a group of buddies, all mocking it relentlessly. [:D]

Indeed! Pearl Harbor would've been a great candidate for "Mystery Science Theater 3000". [:D]

[jardail]

ORIGINAL: Slick Wilhelm

ORIGINAL: Arctic Blast

Pearl Harbor makes for great entertainment if you're with a group of buddies, all mocking it relentlessly. [:D]

Indeed! Pearl Harbor would've been a great candidate for "Mystery Science Theater 3000". [:D]

What do you mean would've? It still IS

[t001001001]

Cage is alright. I think he's related to some bigwig so the movies he gets are usually quite good. But this one stunk. Flat out stupid. 2 thumbs way down.

When he was on the radio giving coded messages of where to srike w/ artillery, who cares? What does it matter at that point? Strategic gains revealed at a tactical level? Even missus salad rolled her eyes and nodded off.