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Offline Ack-Ack

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El Alamein
« on: September 12, 2008, 04:11:01 PM »
Has anyone seen this 2003 Italian war movie?  I ordered it a few weeks ago and just got it yesterday.  I actually made a mistake and thought when it was the 1960's movie of the same name.  Boy, was I in for a very pleasant surprise.  It's a fantastic movie, tells the story of an Italian unit on the southern front lines in North Africa.  The acting is superb and the combat scenes are probably some of the best I've seen (no CGI or other high-tech special effects), especially the tank battles. 

If you're looking for an excellent war movie, pick up El Alamein and you will not be disappointed.


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Re: El Alamein
« Reply #1 on: September 12, 2008, 04:22:58 PM »
Is that the movie where they dug the fox holes and the German tanks rolled over top of them, of course with out seeing them?  :lol

 I remember some old war movie when I was a kid based in Africa.. Was a group of soldiers tracking a small group of German tanks but for the life of me I can't think of the movie's name.
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Re: El Alamein
« Reply #2 on: September 12, 2008, 04:31:21 PM »
Quote from: crockett on September 12, 2008, 04:22:58 PM
Is that the movie where they dug the fox holes and the German tanks rolled over top of them, of course with out seeing them?  :lol


I think that's the Big Red One you're talking about.


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Re: El Alamein
« Reply #3 on: September 12, 2008, 04:37:55 PM »
Yep :aok
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Re: El Alamein
« Reply #4 on: September 12, 2008, 04:53:25 PM »
Quote from: Ack-Ack on September 12, 2008, 04:31:21 PM
I think that's the Big Red One you're talking about.


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humm maybe that part was in that movie, but I do remember a old war film where it was a small group of soldiers on foot if I remember correctly trying to take out a German tank or two. The movie was based on the African campaign, but was likely a mid 80's movie and not from the 60's.
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Re: El Alamein
« Reply #5 on: September 12, 2008, 05:02:56 PM »
Good movie Ack-Ack but not great as it leans too much toward some form of Italian nationalist ideal rather then historical fact. I loved the feel of the movie in showing the soldiers in the trenches but the battle scenes were pretty poor and they didnt show much variety in scenarios the way movies like 'Pvt Ryan' did for instance (Normandy/post-invasion/Captives/battle) but it was a good effort.

EDIT: I thought it was a 2005 movie?
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Re: El Alamein
« Reply #6 on: September 12, 2008, 05:47:32 PM »
Quote from: crockett on September 12, 2008, 04:53:25 PM
humm maybe that part was in that movie, but I do remember a old war film where it was a small group of soldiers on foot if I remember correctly trying to take out a German tank or two. The movie was based on the African campaign, but was likely a mid 80's movie and not from the 60's.

Big Red One.  The original El Alamein was from the '60s and Big Red One from the 70's.  The film that I originally posted about, while sharing the same name from the one in the '60s is a different story.

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Re: El Alamein
« Reply #7 on: September 12, 2008, 05:51:45 PM »
Had Bogart in it... Sahara, circa 1943
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Re: El Alamein
« Reply #8 on: September 12, 2008, 05:55:27 PM »
Quote from: Chalenge on September 12, 2008, 05:02:56 PM
Good movie Ack-Ack but not great as it leans too much toward some form of Italian nationalist ideal rather then historical fact. I loved the feel of the movie in showing the soldiers in the trenches but the battle scenes were pretty poor and they didnt show much variety in scenarios the way movies like 'Pvt Ryan' did for instance (Normandy/post-invasion/Captives/battle) but it was a good effort.

EDIT: I thought it was a 2005 movie?

My DVD says 2003, listing some movie festivals from that same year as well. 

I liked the battle scenes because they didn't have that 'Saving Private Ryan' CGI look to them.

Another movie I just received was Sky Fighers, a French 'Top Gun' type movie but with a plot and some great flying sequences.


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Re: El Alamein
« Reply #9 on: September 12, 2008, 05:57:55 PM »
Quote from: Hangtime on September 12, 2008, 05:51:45 PM
Had Bogart in it... Sahara, circa 1943

One of my favorite movies of all time.  The remake with James Belushi was terrible, especially how they changed the LW pilot from a die hard Nazi in the original to a sympethetic person caught on the wrong side of the war and turned the Frenchman into a blood thirsty killer just out for blood and revenge.


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Re: El Alamein
« Reply #10 on: September 12, 2008, 07:44:18 PM »
Quote from: Hangtime on September 12, 2008, 05:51:45 PM
Had Bogart in it... Sahara, circa 1943

That one was on just a few days ago.  One of my favorites.  Love the scenes with the tank all dug in with camo sheets on it.  It put out quite a bit of firepower.



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Re: El Alamein
« Reply #11 on: September 12, 2008, 08:00:29 PM »
When Belushi did the "three swallows" famous Bogart line, I couldn't stand it anymore and had to turn it off.

Was it three or two? lol can't remember...
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Re: El Alamein
« Reply #12 on: September 12, 2008, 08:16:42 PM »
I expected at any time to see Belushi in the gorilla suit he wore in Trading Places instead of his fatigues.


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Re: El Alamein
« Reply #13 on: September 12, 2008, 08:19:33 PM »
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Re: El Alamein
« Reply #14 on: September 12, 2008, 11:00:29 PM »
Sky Fighters was hell funny and surprisingly a goodf afternoon waster - if a tad stupid

...Sahara (the Bogey version) was an excellent film.

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