Greatest WWII Movie--EVER!

[John 3rd]

In honor of Mr. Roper, my sons and I just got done watching the BEST EVER World War Two film---Kelly's Heroes. Dan is a huge fan of it and probably feels bad that we didn't let him know of the film event prior to watching it.

Who LOVES it?

Who DOES NOT?

Woof-Woof!

[:D]

[Canoerebel]

Oh, man. Arg. What a movie! Who doesn't relish a rollicking WWII movie with a groovie, pot-smoking '60s feel to it? "I'll see your M*A*S*H and raise you one!"

Thank goodness Hollywood never injected a granola-eating, animal-hugging character into an 1870s Great Plains epic <cough, cough: Dances With Wolves> nor a debauched, Las Vegas-striptease aura to a southern highlands Civil War flik <hack, hack: Cold Mountain>.

John III: troll.

[JohnDillworth]

Well I love that movie too! Would have invited Dan over because he doesn't have a TV. Not sure he would be at home in my neck of the woods but we have some pretty long hiking trails so he should be OK [:D]

[mind_messing]

Always with the negative waves?

[John 3rd]

Troll? TROLL??!!

TROLL!

Sweet, Innocent, and PURE that is me. Just like ALL JFB!



I accept this compliment and raise you a "logistics?? We've got logistics comin' out of our a**es!!"

[Anachro]

I've never seen it. That said, it certainly can't be worse than The Thin Red Line or Dunkirk, both which I watched lost year and thoroughly hated. As for my favorite WW2 movie...hmm...The Bridge on the River Kwai? Tora tora tora? Letters from Iwo Jima?

Not movies, but I enjoyed Band of Brothers and The Pacific HBO mini-series. Of the two, I actually thought The Pacific better in some ways.

[Anachro]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

Oh, man. Arg. What a movie! Who doesn't relish a rollicking WWII movie with a groovie, pot-smoking '60s feel to it? "I'll see your M*A*S*H and raise you one!"

Thank goodness Hollywood never injected a granola-eating, animal-hugging character into an 1870s Great Plains epic <cough, cough: Dances With Wolves> nor a debauched, Las Vegas-striptease aura to a southern highlands Civil War flik <hack, hack: Cold Mountain>.

John III: troll.

I don't remember much of Dances With Wolves, but I do remember seeing Cold Mountain in theaters and enjoying it for the most part. A few years back, probably over a decade now, I had a chance to visit a number of historical Civil War sites throughout the South and the border states. Part of this included seeing the site of The Battle of the Crater during the siege of Petersburg, which is shown briefly in the movie.

[durnedwolf]

ORIGINAL: Anachro

I've never seen it. That said, it certainly can't be worse than The Thin Red Line or Dunkirk, both which I watched lost year and thoroughly hated. As for my favorite WW2 movie...hmm...The Bridge on the River Kwai? Tora tora tora? Letters from Iwo Jima?

Not movies, but I enjoyed Band of Brothers and The Pacific HBO mini-series. Of the two, I actually thought The Pacific better in some ways.

Here's a taste. [;)]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpQgy9DRshw&list=PLTDLqGVmjX5gnQQdEKvOAEEvCh8gUb7Wf

[Mikawa]

Best ever

No negative vibes!

[Anachro]

ORIGINAL: durnedwolf
Here's a taste. [;)]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpQgy9DRshw&list=PLTDLqGVmjX5gnQQdEKvOAEEvCh8gUb7Wf

I really need to see this now. Looks like quite a good family movie! Next time I'm back home for a vacation, I'll watch it with the old man. [:)]

[Canoerebel]

Kellys Heroes is actually worse than The Thin Red Line. That it manages to achieve that level of incompetence is a testament to Hollywood's knack for distorting history in ways that can make history lovers weep into their breakfast cereal. TMTSNBN: kaff, kaff.

[CaptBeefheart]

CR: Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves? Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here? Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?

"Kelly's Heroes" is a bank heist flick loosely, and I mean "loosely," set in WW2. Since it's not meant to depict any certain battle, it beats a lot of what passes for "accurate" war flicks.

Cheers,
CB

[Rising-Sun]

Well there are some are my favorite, like In Harm's Way, Letters from Iwo Jima, Flags of our fathers, Yamato, Das Boot and Fury. And of course the funny Kelly's Heroes too.

[HansBolter]

Greatest movie ever made, war movie or otherwise.

Maybe he's a Republican!

[LeeChard]

+1 for Kelly's Heroes. I was a high school senior in 1970 and I loved that movie(I was probably in the proper state of mind
when I saw it) [8D][:D]

[Reg]

Worth watching just for the theme song.... [:D][:D][:D]

Unlike TMTSNBN this film has no pretensions of being a WWII movie!!

It's a 70's heist/comedy movie with more than a touch of 60's social commentary filmed in a surprisingly authentic WWII setting, pure and simple.

A lot of fun and should be treated as such....[:'(]

[Para87]

Easily my favorite movie of all time. Pretty sure I could recite the dialogue backwards which is kinda sad I guess[:-]

First saw it aged about 8 when my sister's friend, not much of a friend either, inexplicably recorded it off TV and gave me the VHS tape. Needless to say that tape was soon wrecked.


I'll be humming 'Burning Bridges' for the rest of the day....

[Trugrit]

It is a great movie. I love it.

Trivia:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065938/trivia

[AndyDuke]

How come the Battle of Britain hasn't had a mention - best flying sequences in any film because all most all of the flying is real!!

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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

Kellys Heroes is actually worse than The Thin Red Line. That it manages to achieve that level of incompetence is a testament to Hollywood's knack for distorting history in ways that can make history lovers weep into their breakfast cereal. TMTSNBN: kaff, kaff.

A lot of movies are worse than The Thin Red Line, because it's that good!! A little philosophy to go with your disemboweling machine gun fire, Mr Roper? [:D]

The Thin Red Line is one of my Top Ten of all time. Beautifully shot, well acted by an all star cast, a complex and challenging script that makes us consider those who were just no prepared to go charging up a hill with a gun, no matter how compelling the reasons.

There is a reason all of those star actors took bit parts to be in a Terrence Malick film about the WW2 Pacific. It wasn't money.