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Offline Ack-Ack

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Re: Best low budget war movie
« Reply #30 on: April 12, 2013, 06:15:01 PM »
Quote from: RngFndr on April 12, 2013, 06:55:16 AM
The Beast? That the one made by HBO back in the early 80's??
Russian T54 in Afghanistan get separated from their unit?

TANK BOY??????

It was a theatrical release in the US.

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Re: Best low budget war movie
« Reply #31 on: April 12, 2013, 06:18:59 PM »
The Siege of Firebase Gloria wasn't a bad low budget war movie. 

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Re: Best low budget war movie
« Reply #32 on: April 12, 2013, 06:41:30 PM »
The one with R. Lee Ermey? Yeah, was rather good.
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Re: Best low budget war movie
« Reply #33 on: April 12, 2013, 07:42:03 PM »
Quote from: GScholz on April 12, 2013, 06:41:30 PM
The one with R. Lee Ermey? Yeah, was rather good.

Yeah and supposedly he was the one that wrote the screen play as well.

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Re: Best low budget war movie
« Reply #34 on: April 12, 2013, 08:00:45 PM »
Dont think id label it as "Best" low budget but:

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Re: Best low budget war movie
« Reply #35 on: April 12, 2013, 08:10:57 PM »
Last Man Standing



Bruce Willis and his two 1911s .vs about 50 mafia goons.  Aside from Bruce's salary, the next biggest budgetary expense was bullets.
Maybe not classified as a "war movie" per se but there was a hell of a lot of gunfire in it, I can tell you that much.
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Re: Best low budget war movie
« Reply #36 on: April 13, 2013, 06:41:39 AM »
Last man standing.. That was an ODD movie.. Bizarre mixture of styles..

Interesting soundtrack, on basically a Ripoff of Fist Full of Dollars..

Didn't think they had widebody 1911's in the prewar dustbowl mob days.. :lol

But, wasn't Fist full of Dollars, a ripoff of a Japanese Samurai film???
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Re: Best low budget war movie
« Reply #37 on: April 13, 2013, 06:46:14 AM »
Quote from: RngFndr on April 13, 2013, 06:41:39 AM
Last man standing.. That was an ODD movie.. Bizarre mixture of styles..

Interesting soundtrack, on basically a Ripoff of Fist Full of Dollars..

Didn't think they had widebody 1911's in the prewar dustbowl mob days.. :lol

But, wasn't Fist full of Dollars, a ripoff of a Japanese Samurai film???

Fist Full of Dollars is an uncredited remake of Kurosawa's Yojimbo while Last Man Standing is a credited remake.

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Re: Best low budget war movie
« Reply #38 on: April 13, 2013, 07:01:39 AM »
Quote from: Ack-Ack on April 13, 2013, 06:46:14 AM
Fist Full of Dollars is an uncredited remake of Kurosawa's Yojimbo while Last Man Standing is a credited remake.

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OK, I knew it was something like that, couldn't remember the details..

On the beast, that was interesting movie too.. Very political in its own time..
The clash of the old Stalinist Russian vs the new young Russian societies,
played out within the tank was very interesting.. And the driver being the drunken
conniving toady, as an example of the dark underside of All Statist societies..
And the Afghan communist, sucked into the whole mess, just gets wasted..
Yep, good acting in that one too.. With a good ending..
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