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Offline MrBill

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« Reply #30 on: January 21, 2002, 07:32:03 PM »
Well leaving W.W.II ...

Korean Conflict

The Bridges at To-Ko-Ri
Pork Chop Hill

Vietnam
Charlie Mo-Pic 13 (this one still gives me the creeps ... gritty in the extreme)
Go Tell the Spartans
The Green Berets

others
The Horse Soldiers
Soldier Blue
The Blue Max

And my all time Favorite

Dr Strangelove

and back to W.W.II
In Harms Way
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Offline midnight Target

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« Reply #31 on: January 21, 2002, 07:52:32 PM »
This was a WW1 film, but nothing has creeped me out as much as "Johnny Get Your Gun".

About a young man who has his face, arms and legs blown off in a trench. Dream sequences and stuff abound, but the message is chilling and heartbreaking.
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« Reply #32 on: January 21, 2002, 08:34:51 PM »
MrBill!!!  You bugger!!

I want to type that!!

IN HARM'S WAY!!!!!
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« Reply #33 on: January 21, 2002, 08:59:22 PM »
bridge at tokori is awesome. that sucks when the guy gets shot in the trench at the end.
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« Reply #34 on: January 22, 2002, 01:18:50 AM »
Das boot????  Someone please....   I most embarrasingly admit I've never heard of it.
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« Reply #35 on: January 22, 2002, 01:40:23 AM »
This is director Wolfgang Peterson's ultimate version of one of the most critically acclaimed war movies of all time. stars Herbert Gronemeyer, Jurgen Prochnow, Klaus Wennemann.  See the directors cut, it sells for about $15.  About a u-boat and her crew, great flick!
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« Reply #36 on: January 22, 2002, 02:15:21 AM »
Since this has degenerated away from WW2 anyway, I would like to recommend a war movie.  I like a good shoot um up as much as the next guy.  But it is hard to take these flicks seriously most of the time. There are moments in various movies that look quite realistic. For example, the Fire fight in Forrest Gump looked all to familiar.  But, for the most part, its like trying to described the taste of a passion fruit, to someone who has never even seen one.  You could show them a million movies of someone eating passion fruit, and they still would have no idea how one tastes. An experience, is an experience.

  The best one I have ever seen was called Saviour.  The set up is for the usual Hollywood revenge movie.  If you ignore it, the rest of the movie is very good.  It shows the emotional disconnect that a lot of soldiers experience.  And then the protagonists struggle to gain his humanity back. It is not a shoot um up but, it is the most accurate depiction of what its like to be a solider i have seen in a movie.
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« Reply #37 on: January 22, 2002, 02:20:13 PM »
My picks:

10. Final Countdown

Ok , just sorta WW2, but ya gotta wonder what a tomcat would do against a zeke :)

9. Thin Red Line

it was pretty good

8.  The Longest Day

very revisionist & took a lot of liberties, but that was a LOTTA war movie

7. Midway

Extremely poor movie-making, but my favorite battle, and pretty faithful to the actual events

6. Patton

A shiny new penny to the guy that can tell me: Who served under Patton & also played him as a character?

5. King Rat

Excellent film. I highly recommend it.

4. The Great Escape

Steve whoops butt

3. Bridge Over the River Kwai

Good Film-making exemplified

2. A Bridge Too Far

Over-simplified, sure. But Attenborough actually got that many freaking planes in the air at one time. Worth seeing for the mass 'chute drop alone.

1. Saving Private Ryan

No other film brings the sudden horror of combat to your screen like this. Nuff said

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Offline midnight Target

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« Reply #38 on: January 22, 2002, 02:23:28 PM »
kidcol....was that Karl Malden?
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« Reply #39 on: January 22, 2002, 02:31:37 PM »
Das boot is worth all 4 freaking hours !
Midway
Tora Tora Tora
Private Ryan
Band of brothers (may not be a real movie but it rocked)
BOB

when are they going to put the BOB on dvd..bastards !
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« Reply #40 on: January 22, 2002, 02:32:39 PM »
Ditto - Charlie Mopic, MrBill. I've seen that one probably 6 or 7 times. Rent it if you can find it.

A real Vietnam sleeper that surprized the living sh*t out of me.

Shot in unusual 3rd person perspective. Really compelling.

I'm going to check out the other suggestions...
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« Reply #41 on: January 22, 2002, 04:06:47 PM »
Tora Tora Tora
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« Reply #42 on: January 22, 2002, 04:17:59 PM »
Midway awfully good.  I'm with someone else who posted, what is Das Boot?  I've never heard of it?  I actually enjoyed U-571 so does this mean I will love Das Boot? :D

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« Reply #43 on: January 22, 2002, 04:20:03 PM »
Das Boot is much grittier and more realistic than U-571. At least in terms of atmosphere if not special effects. Although the effects in Boot are not bad either.
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« Reply #44 on: January 22, 2002, 04:33:59 PM »
Das Boot
Catch-22
A Midnight Clear

Just saw one over the weekend that was so-so but kind of interesting..."The Eagle has Landed."
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