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Offline JB88

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« Reply #60 on: November 23, 2007, 02:14:05 AM »
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Yar, I be 12...

My parents, hmm...  They may be hesitant a LITTLE...  :noid  

I've been watching some video's on youtube...  Makes me hate nazi's...  :(  
The D-Day scene...  WOW, just WOW.  That beginning part of it, really set the mood.  

Also, Tac.  I'll  youtube The thin red line.  Same with band-o- brothers

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surround sound.  

nothing that i have ever seen can beat that scene.  ever.
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« Reply #61 on: November 23, 2007, 02:21:14 AM »
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surround sound.  

nothing that i have ever seen can beat that scene.  ever.

You've not seen Band of Brothers???:confused:
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« Reply #62 on: November 23, 2007, 02:57:44 AM »
ya.  it's very good as well.

but the beach landing scene in saving private ryan remains unmatched...imho.
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« Reply #63 on: November 23, 2007, 05:58:20 AM »
Actually, I thought Tom Hanks fit his role in SPR pretty well:  an ex-school teacher who epitomized the average American who served his country in a time of great need...an ordinary man called upon to do extraordinary things.
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« Reply #64 on: November 23, 2007, 02:18:27 PM »
Watching Saving Private Ryan will end your childhood, Oog.

Are you ready to grow up this soon?

Just kidding, but it has a lot of impact of hard reality of what lies in store for young men only 6 years older than you... quite realistically depicted very bad things that happens to young soldiers on a battlefield even though the actor's ages makes it look like it's only about older guys.

It changed me and I will never face a battlefield.

It might not be too bad on a TV screen, though. But at your age I would not recommend seeing it at a movie theater with full volume surround sound.

You can save the movie for another time when you are ready to face your mortality.

If you simply must see a war movie... rent "Master and Commander."

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/master_and_commander/

Best all male casted movie war movie I have ever seen. A guy I used to date read all of the Aubrey-Maturin books by Patrick O'Brian even though he was a Col. in the US Army; he took me to see this movie.

Master and Commander is a historical naval novel by Patrick O'Brian. First published in 1970 it is first in the Aubrey-Maturin series of stories of Captain Jack Aubrey and the naval surgeon Stephen Maturin.

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PS: I had to walk out of "Born on the Fourth of July" crying my eyes out.
Makes me weep to even recall it.
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« Reply #65 on: November 23, 2007, 02:26:09 PM »
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Actually, I thought Tom Hanks fit his role in SPR pretty well:  an ex-school teacher who epitomized the average American who served his country in a time of great need...an ordinary man called upon to do extraordinary things.


I believe Tom Hanks' core "ordinariness" is key to his success as an actor just as it is with Will Smith, in my opinion.

Both are men very similar to those you would see on any street of any town or city in the USA... makes them both very believable in their roles.

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« Reply #66 on: November 23, 2007, 03:03:37 PM »
Actually, I've been trying to find a band of brothers DVD with all the episodes on it... instead of just buying one episode at a time.  I'll check eBay.
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« Reply #67 on: November 23, 2007, 03:20:42 PM »
Tigeress,

IMO they changed too much of the story. The ship Aubrey was pursuing was American in the books. In fact, the hull design made her a sister-ship to the USS Constitution  (most anyone familiar with these ships can tell by the description of the ship's hull they used in the movies). No nation other than the United States was building frigates like that, so making her French but keeping the same design was pretty laughable. :p

Sorry, I'm of a mind that unless you have to adjust the story to make it practical to film, LEAVE THE DETAILS ALONE. Bending over for post-9/11 Americans Can't be Bad Guys politics does NOT count.
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« Reply #68 on: November 23, 2007, 03:25:42 PM »
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Tigeress,

IMO they changed too much of the story. The ship Aubrey was pursuing was American in the books. In fact, the hull design made her a sister-ship to the USS Constitution  (most anyone familiar with these ships can tell by the description of the ship's hull they used in the movies). No nation other than the United States was building frigates like that, so making her French but keeping the same design was pretty laughable. :p

Sorry, I'm of a mind that unless you have to adjust the story to make it practical to film, LEAVE THE DETAILS ALONE. Bending over for post-9/11 Americans Can't be Bad Guys politics does NOT count.


No Movie ever did justice to the Book, IMHO. lol

To fully enjoy the movie, read the book afterwards!

I loved the movie! I would marry Capt Jack Aubrey! wooo HOOO!

I didn't read the book but as I recall the movie, the ship being pursued  was an American built ship, not French built, with a supposedly cutting edge hull design... built in Boston according to memory. I don't now recall how it got into the hands of the French but it was named Acheron.

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« Reply #69 on: November 23, 2007, 03:37:29 PM »
One of the few mistakes that is commonly cited in "Saving Private Ryan" is the fact the the guys in the squad talk so much when they traverse the country side.  

Of course the sniper that recites the bible verses comes across extremely corny.

'Saving Private Ryan' is a great movie.  But I agree, 'Band of Brothers' is a bit better.
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« Reply #70 on: November 23, 2007, 04:52:36 PM »
Sold, I believe, which the USN WASN'T doing (the construction of the Constitution-class frigates was the equivalent of top secret at the time. The British only found out how they were built after capturing one that ran aground during the War of 1812. Not only that, the US needed every ship they could get their hands on! They couldn't afford to sell one).
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« Reply #71 on: November 23, 2007, 05:19:39 PM »
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Sold, I believe, which the USN WASN'T doing (the construction of the Constitution-class frigates was the equivalent of top secret at the time. The British only found out how they were built after capturing one that ran aground during the War of 1812. Not only that, the US needed every ship they could get their hands on! They couldn't afford to sell one).


yes, that was it... sold to France. It didn't seem like a stretch to me cause as I recall my American History, France was a US ally during the Revolutionary war against the British.

I'm not a purist in the sense of faithful following of history in movies and viewed the story Master and Commander as a work of fiction.

Loved the music also and still have several .mp3s from the movie.

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« Reply #72 on: November 23, 2007, 05:23:26 PM »
Saving Private Ryan is 20 minutes of docu-drama and 2 hours of over-sentimental crap.
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« Reply #73 on: November 23, 2007, 05:30:38 PM »
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The one greatest war film ever made.  I remember reading quotes from WWII vets that were amazed at the sound recreation in many of the scenes.  They said they literally started trembling as if they were back in that moment!  Graphic scenes though, if you parents give you the OK, then I'd recommend it!


When i saw it n opening day i wound up sitting next to an old vet.  We got to talking and he told me he had been on Omaha (if i remember correctly) beach.  Before the movie he was chatty and enthusiastic, after the movie he just sat there, somber and as far as i know he sat there a long time, i never saw him leave the theater
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