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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: pembquist on April 09, 2013, 01:32:05 AM
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[url]http://youtu.be/uQsGHslcZzo[/url
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Came across this and what's weird is I remembered it being black and white which is wrong. Makes you wonder about eyewitness testimony.
Acting is not superb, writing is a little cliche'd but once you let yourself go it's pretty much got you. Probably not for younger viewers as there is no cg or overwhelming jump cuts, slo mo, massive explosions or gore fetish. Nore is there a tedious over wrought sound track. Remember too that this was made years before the "Blair Witch Project" and found footage was not hackneyed like today.
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Try "Die Bruecke", old German B&W post-war film. IIRC it's on youtube in its entirety, with subtitles.
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Check out "The Steel Helmet".
Directed by Sam Fuller (The Big Red One)
Its about Korea. Filmed in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, near the observatory. Stars Gene Evans.
There is an amusing anecdote about how Gene got the lead part of Sargeant Zack.
LtngRydr
P.S. I found a copy of "The Big Red One - The Reconstruction" that was put together by his friends from deleted footage. They added over 40 minutes back into the movie trying to fulfill his vision. Sam Fuller does a cameo in it,as a combat cameraman, using the same camera he used in WW2.
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Hell is for Heros..
Hollywood film, but low budget.. With lots of Unknown Superstars in it!
Early Steve McQueen as Reese! Outstanding!
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Thanks for the recommendations. Up until a couple years ago I had this memory of a Korean War picture that I saw the first 15 minutes of on TV as a kid in the 70's. Lone survivor of a massacre crawling past his dead comrades with his hands tied behind his back, little kid, guys posing as priests or something being the enemy. Took me until a couple years ago to see the whole picture and put a name to it. Steel Helmet. "Griffith Park, 10 days" now that was a movie director. :salute Sam Fuller
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Check out "Attack!" (1956)
Jack Palance, Lee Marvin, Eddie Albert, and a bunch of others you've seen before. It's a great story, and Eddie Albert's performance is amazing. And well, Jack Palance is JACK PALANCE!
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Yes Jack Palance :old:
Awesome :old:
Even he would defeat my Typhoon in a 109 with no wings and guns :old:
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(http://www.moviemem.com/images/pictures/store/DECISIONBEFOREDAWN.jpg)
Decision Before Dawn (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043459/)- 1951- German POW's sent back behind the lines as Allied spies. Received 2 Oscar nominations.
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Check out "Attack!" (1956)
Jack Palance, Lee Marvin, Eddie Albert, and a bunch of others you've seen before. It's a great story, and Eddie Albert's performance is amazing. And well, Jack Palance is JACK PALANCE!
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Is that the one where Eddie Albert is a drunk, cowardly officer and Jack Palance is sent on a mission involving some tank and he gets run over and then comes back to confront Eddie Albert?
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Ack I believe you are correct.
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Yup, that's the one.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxS3CL-IewY
The Beast of War (1988)
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Also, "The Misfit Brigade" from 1987. Excellent low budget war film, based on Sven Hassel's "Wheels of Terror".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvvoMn9qMO0
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Also check out "a Walk in the Sun"
It's about the Salerno landing and taking a farmhouse.
They use a P51 for a 109 in the beginning. And you get to see a low flight of 4 - P38s as well :x
LtngRydr :old:
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Does "Plan 9 From Outer Space" count?
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Actually, some of the best war acting, wasn't on the big screen..
Vic Morrow, as Sgt Saunders.. COMBAT, FTW :aok
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Army of Darkness.
(http://www.mkblog.mk-magazine.com/news_7-08/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Army-of-Darkness-king-arthur-793680_425_489.jpg)
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Not sure how "low budget" it is, but I'm a big fan of "The Boys of Company C"
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Try "Die Bruecke", old German B&W post-war film. IIRC it's on youtube in its entirety, with subtitles.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxS3CL-IewY
The Beast of War (1988)
That movie was released in the US as "The Beast".
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A Midnight Clear.....
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What was the name of the army movie where a tank runs over Jack Palances' arm?
Btw.....Kelly's Heroes only cost 4 million to make and was filmed in Yugoslavia.
Darn good movie, but only grossed 5.2 million in the US.
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What was the name of the army movie where a tank runs over Jack Palances' arm?
Btw.....Kelly's Heroes only cost 4 million to make and was filmed in Yugoslavia.
Darn good movie, but only grossed 5.2 million in the US.
The Movie name was "Attack"..
Sometimes the box office means nothing.. Kelly's Heroes is a classic for all time, that means more than money!
I trust you agree!
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Btw.....Kelly's Heroes only cost 4 million to make and was filmed in Yugoslavia.
Darn good movie, but only grossed 5.2 million in the US.
Box office does not equal greatness.
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Thanks RngFndr. Gory scene that was. Will never forget.
Yep Kelly's is a classic.
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That movie was released in the US as "The Beast".
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Ya I was wondering about that,I've seen it a couple of times and always thought the title was "the Beast". I've recommended it to a couple of friends as it's a great character study.
Of course the use of hydraulic fluid in the movie is a bit much..... :devil
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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??????
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"Platoon Leader" was low budget I think.
Good movie based on the book.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzDxRMim7xw
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Well, sir, the roadwheel's cracked. Kaminski drank our brakes. We're low on petrol. The battery's low. We're losing oil. If the engine heats up it's gonna seize. The terrain, obviously against us. We have no rations. The Mujas behind us don't seem to run on rations, petrol, or anything we know of. And they have an RPG. Their aim is getting better. Sir.
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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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The Siege of Firebase Gloria wasn't a bad low budget war movie.
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The one with R. Lee Ermey? Yeah, was rather good.
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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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Dont think id label it as "Best" low budget but:
(http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac82/mbailey166066/d054eb5bfe57b66ca98e5dafd8f59bb7_zpsa976402f.jpg) (http://s888.photobucket.com/user/mbailey166066/media/d054eb5bfe57b66ca98e5dafd8f59bb7_zpsa976402f.jpg.html)
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Last Man Standing
(http://i343.photobucket.com/albums/o460/caldera_08/Last_man_standing_ver2.jpg) (http://s343.photobucket.com/user/caldera_08/media/Last_man_standing_ver2.jpg.html)
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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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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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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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..