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re: Band of Brothers
Posted on 2/9/18 at 9:39 pm to pngtiger
Posted on 2/9/18 at 9:39 pm to pngtiger
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Oh, and agree with the others about The Pacific. It is difficult to get through, especially after BoB. I've tried twice to watch the series, and didn't get past episode 7 either time. Almost every episode is so depressing. The only non depressing one I can remember was when Leckie hooks up with the Australian girl.
If you ever want to appreciate what those boys in the pacific went through read Sledge’s memoir With the Old Breed. The Japs were absolutely barbaric and the series does a good job showing the inhumanity, but as crazy as it sounds it still wasn’t brutal enough. The episodes where Sledge has nightmares brings tears to my eyes. I cannot imagine what those guys went through. I know both fronts were hell, but I’d have rather gone to the European front. The Pacific theater was on another level. So much respect for guys like Sledge, who went on to have a great life afterwards.
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Posted on 2/9/18 at 10:04 pm to Frac the world
Only stupid motherfrickers do not like The Thin Red Line.
Go watch Rambo II.
Go watch Rambo II.
Posted on 2/10/18 at 5:58 am to CidCock
If you can find it, watch Germany, Pale Mother. It's a German-language film about a German family putting pieces back together after losing the war. It makes Saving Private Ryan look like a comedy.
Also, one of the reasons I think most people gravitate more towards interest in the European theater is because of how schools have traditionally taught the war. Once you start looking into the Pacific and what the Japanese actually did, (cannibalism, Unit 731, Nanking), it quickly becomes just as fascinating, if not more so.
Also, one of the reasons I think most people gravitate more towards interest in the European theater is because of how schools have traditionally taught the war. Once you start looking into the Pacific and what the Japanese actually did, (cannibalism, Unit 731, Nanking), it quickly becomes just as fascinating, if not more so.
Posted on 2/10/18 at 10:51 am to CidCock
Posted on 2/10/18 at 10:57 am to CidCock
A couple of great, not as well known, WWII movies:
Memphis Belle
U-571
Memphis Belle
U-571
Posted on 2/10/18 at 1:18 pm to CidCock
Das Boot. Get the german language with sub titles.
Battle of the Bulge with Henry Fonda
The Longest Day
Saving Private Ryan
Patton
12 o'clock High
The Enemy Below
Sink the Bismarck
Battle of the Bulge with Henry Fonda
The Longest Day
Saving Private Ryan
Patton
12 o'clock High
The Enemy Below
Sink the Bismarck
Posted on 2/28/18 at 10:01 am to CidCock
Three WWII Best Picture Oscar Winners on Turner Classic tonight.
8:00 PM The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
11:00 PM Patton (1970)
2:00 AM From Here to Eternity (1953)
https://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/movie-tv/tcms-31-days-of-oscar-week-remaining-movies-posted/75184132/
Times are Central.
8:00 PM The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
11:00 PM Patton (1970)
2:00 AM From Here to Eternity (1953)
https://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/movie-tv/tcms-31-days-of-oscar-week-remaining-movies-posted/75184132/
Times are Central.
Posted on 2/28/18 at 10:07 am to chinese58
Patton
"I READ YOUR BOOK!!"
"I READ YOUR BOOK!!"
Posted on 2/28/18 at 11:09 am to CidCock
If you're into occupation/resistance movies as well, Winter in Wartime was a solid watch on Netflix. It's a movie about the Netherlands occupation and resistance.
Posted on 2/28/18 at 11:09 am to The Egg
I still need to finish The Pacific.
Posted on 2/28/18 at 11:13 am to The Egg
quote:I haven't been able to finish The Pacific, and I didn't like Flags of Our Fathers or Letters from Iwo Jima nearly as much as Saving Private Ryan.
i wouldn't go straight into The Pacific just yet.
you'll end up comparing it to BoB, which will dilute the quality of TP
I do like the colorized documentaries on the Pacific, especially the coverage of the fleet, but otherwise I greatly prefer the European campaign.
Posted on 2/28/18 at 11:21 am to Scoob
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I haven't been able to finish The Pacific
Same.
quote:
I didn't like Flags of Our Fathers or Letters from Iwo Jima nearly as much as Saving Private Ryan.
Opposite - take the Omaha beach scene until "DOG-1 is open" out of the film, and SPR is kind of meh - not to disparage it, it had its moments after that, but never lived up to the promise.
The Eastwood movies are fantastic start to finish.
Posted on 2/28/18 at 12:59 pm to Ace Midnight
I liked most of Fury, but wish they'd made the ending more realistic. A handful of guys in a broken down tank vs a platoon of SS... 
Nice action scenes, but it changed the movie from an alltime great, gritty war film, to something less.
I think, had they done the ending right, there would have been multiple Oscars for that film.
Nice action scenes, but it changed the movie from an alltime great, gritty war film, to something less.
I think, had they done the ending right, there would have been multiple Oscars for that film.
Posted on 2/28/18 at 1:07 pm to Scoob
I love "To End All Wars" which depicts life in a Jap POW camp
quote:
Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are held captive by the Japanese. Capt. Ernest Gordon (Ciaran McMenamin), Lt. Jim Reardon (Kiefer Sutherland) and Maj. Ian Campbell (Robert Carlyle) are among the military officers kept imprisoned and routinely beaten and deprived of food. While Campbell wants to rebel and attempt an escape, Gordon tries to take a more stoic approach, an attitude that proves to be surprisingly resonant.
This post was edited on 2/28/18 at 1:08 pm
Posted on 2/28/18 at 8:48 pm to CidCock
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/documentaries?
The World at War
Another HBO movie called Conspiracy
Downfall (Der Untergang)
The Grey Zone
This post was edited on 2/28/18 at 8:54 pm
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