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Offline Dinger

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« Reply #15 on: September 21, 2003, 01:04:30 AM »
toshiro mifune holden.

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« Reply #16 on: September 21, 2003, 01:16:30 AM »
Thats him...Toshiro Mifune was also in Seven Samurai and Midway...
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« Reply #17 on: September 21, 2003, 01:58:26 AM »
Gallipoli.

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« Reply #18 on: September 21, 2003, 01:59:06 AM »
'Shot through the Heart'. Heavily based on a true story and taking place in a war that a lot of people have tried very hard to 'ignore away'. I don't care much for most 'war movies'. Too much 'inspirational' music and too many 'happy' or 'heroic' endings. A Bridge Too Far is the type that is the exception - they tell the story of what really happened and don't try to 'sugarcoat' things. This movie is in the same class but far more relevant in terms of 'modern relevance'.

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« Reply #19 on: September 21, 2003, 02:03:47 AM »
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An obscure quote from the movie I like:

"Good Italian vine!"


Stalingrad!  

One of my favorites too, very human treatment of a vastly inhuman battle. :)

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« Reply #20 on: September 21, 2003, 06:17:56 AM »
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« Reply #21 on: September 21, 2003, 08:03:20 AM »
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Quotes from the above movies I know:

Heartbreak Ridge:

"It don't mean nothing".

Isn't that from Hamburger Hill?


If you want to see an EXCELLENT WWII film watch "Decision Before Dawn" (1951). I'm surprised this film was never remade.
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Not Ground Combat but
« Reply #22 on: September 21, 2003, 08:53:56 AM »
One of the best war movies I've ever seen is
"Das Boot" Nothing romantic about that.

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« Reply #23 on: September 21, 2003, 08:59:58 AM »
Winter war

Epic 3-4 hour Finnish movie about the winter war (surprise). One of the best warmovies I've ever seen. Probably THE best until SPR arrived.

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« Reply #24 on: September 21, 2003, 09:28:01 AM »
Grun..correct!  :)

rpm...I think you are right man, that was Hamburger Hill.

Heartbreak Ridge quote:

"The Swede will take care of him.  Swede Swede Swede"

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« Reply #26 on: September 21, 2003, 09:52:20 AM »
"Go Tell the Spartans"

It was a vietnam movie that Bert Lancaster did.

Different point of view on the war for the time.


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« Reply #27 on: September 21, 2003, 11:22:27 AM »
Too late the Hero with Michael Caine. Quite a film. Did anyone see it?
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« Reply #28 on: September 21, 2003, 12:30:36 PM »
Curv, my favorite line from Heartbreak Ridge was a drunken Clint in the jail cell: "You can run me, you can beat me, you can shoot me...Just don't BORE me!" :D
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« Reply #29 on: September 21, 2003, 07:35:30 PM »
The Story of G.I. Joe

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