Movie review thread...
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@bovidae said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mn5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
I make a point of watching it every Anzac Day.
You need to watch Gallipoli for some local flavour.
Private Ryan is an epic movie. Personally, it was good to visit some of the real locations of the movie (e.g. Utah beach and the Normandy cemetery at Omaha where the movie starts and ends).
I like some of the earlier war movies like The Big Red One, Where Eagles Dare and the first anti-war movie from 1930 - All Quiet On The Western Front. The TV remake with John-Boy isn't as good.
Where Eagles Dare. Classic Clint. Good flick overall but quite a bit of 60s cheesiness. Another couple of that ilk are Von Ryan's Express and the Battle of Britain.
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@nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mn5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Which war movie was the one they were all stuck in a tank? Living proof that Shia le Boof is THE biggest dickhead in cinema history given he was able to ruin that one for me.
Inglorious Basterds is well up there on my list ( 2nd favourite Tarantino movie ever ) but it's possibly a bit silly to be a genuine war flick.
Fury. I thought it was ok, Shia LeBouf doesn't annoy me though.
Agree, that’s the only movie I’ve thought he was good in . It’s almost a toned down version of what Audie Murphy did.
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@bovidae I got a copy of The Big Red One recently, have yet to watch though.
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@taniwharugby said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@bovidae I got a copy of The Big Red One recently, have yet to watch though.
There’s two versions, they cut the kid sniper out of one of them and the little girl being killed.
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@taniwharugby said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@bovidae I got a copy of The Big Red One recently, have yet to watch though.
I went to Normandy on a ww2 tour and saw where the big red 1 stormed the beach. They sent weaker troops in to draw fire while the 1 outflanked the defences and destroyed them
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@mn5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mn5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Which war movie was the one they were all stuck in a tank? Living proof that Shia le Boof is THE biggest dickhead in cinema history given he was able to ruin that one for me.
Inglorious Basterds is well up there on my list ( 2nd favourite Tarantino movie ever ) but it's possibly a bit silly to be a genuine war flick.
Fury. I thought it was ok, Shia LeBouf doesn't annoy me though.
He is nothing but an absolute talentless cock to me. You also don't like Leigh Hart though so I'm always cautious of your opinion Neps
I can't help the fact I was born with a sense of humour.
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@canefan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
I was only young but I absolutely loved Guns of the Navarone
I used to watch that with the old man at least once a year on video.
The Big Red One is great. The director and star (Sam Fuller and Lee Marvin) actually fought in the war (Fuller actually in the 1st Division, Marvin in the Pacific I think) so it was pretty realistic, although Speilberg certainly showed you don't need to have been there to make a realistic seeming war film.
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@canefan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
It wasn't at the awesome level but I did enjoy Enemy at the Gate. The whole cat and mouse sniper thing and the Russian angle was a bit different
Me too. I've been meaning to watch that again. The 2013 release of Stalingrad was an interesting movie from a Russian perspective.
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my watchlist getting lots added to it while trying to locate some
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@bovidae said in Re: Movie review thread...:
I've watched Escape From Sobibor a few times now. Add Triumph of the Spirit to that list.
Will look that up, Escape from Sobibor has some scenes that are very hard to watch . Fantastic film
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@canefan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Speaking of Lee Marvin, the dirty dozen was great. Like inglorious bastards before inglorious bastards
The Inglorious Basterds part of Inglorious Basterds. I remember when it was first advertised as being made it was assumed it was a Dirty Dozen style movie - but I'm glad it was what it was.
Platoon is by far my favourite Vietnam film. A Midnight Clear was another decent WW2 movie. Did anyone watch that Mormon WW2 movie? Saints and Soldiers I think it was called.
I also remember a film on video called The Lost Command about the French at Dien Ben Phu. If I watched that now I don't think I'd be supporting the French characters.
Escape from Sobibor (TV Movie 1987) ⭐ 7.4 | Drama, History, War
