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  • taniwharugbyT Offline
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    @jegga spoiler alert 😉

    Not sure I am on the hunt for depressing ones...

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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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    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

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    @mn5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:

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    @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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    @jegga

    I've watched Escape From Sobibor a few times now. Add Triumph of the Spirit to that list.

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    The Great escape was excellent. That was the one with Steve McQueen, was that the one that they dropped handfuls of dirt out of their trousers?

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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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    Speaking of Lee Marvin, the dirty dozen was great. Like inglorious bastards before inglorious bastards

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    @bovidae said in Re: Movie review thread...:

    @jegga

    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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    Schindler's list. I could only watch it once, it was too intense. Black and white was a brilliant move, captured the brutality of the holocaust

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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.

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    @nepia I concur about Platoon, I also enjoyed apocalypse now

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    The Great Raid is a decent war film , in real life there was a guy in the toilet who was deaf and missed the whole thing. Came out to find the camp empty, fortunately they sent people back for him .

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    Watched APocolypse Now and Full Metal Jacket recently

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    @taniwharugby said in Re: Movie review thread...:

    Watched APocolypse Now and Full Metal Jacket recently

    I forgot about full metal jacket.

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    @nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:

    @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.

    Midnight Clear is pretty good, I didn’t know about Saints and Soldiers being a Mormon film but it was a decent film considering it’s budget. Did the church put up some money for it?

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    Avenge Me!: American Catharsis in 1980s Soviet Invasion Fantasies

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    Loved Platoon but was never a big fan of Apocalypse Now. I watched the Redux version a few years back and my opinion didn't change.

    Anyone remember the TV series Tour Of Duty? That was a very good show set in the Vietnam War.

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