Movie Genres: World War II, films about the defining event in history |
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Movie Genres: World War II, films about the defining event in history |
 Jun 24 2009, 09:22 PM
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 Commander  Group: Worker Posts: 4,878 Joined: 15-February 08 From: The corner of No and Where Member No.: 2,111  |
QUOTE (WolfeFPS @ Jun 23 2009, 01:51 AM)  Just a place to rant and rave about our favorite and least favorite WW2 films. To get started, some favs: Saving Private Ryan Grave of the Fireflies Valkyrie (not really a fave, but thoroughly underrated) Letters from Iwo Jima A Bridge Too Far (not the greatest film, but I have a personal bias regarding the subject matter) Battle of Britain (Michael Caine just gives legitimacy to everything) Some least favs: Windtalkers (absolute garbage) Pearl Harbor (an almost-decent movie pushed aside by a crap Danielle Steele homage) SPR is totally overrated after the first half hour, but we've had this talk before.  It's been years, but I remember being bored to tears by BoB. LfIJ is frakking fantastic. It might be CE's best movie. And I have to admit, I have a serious soft spot for The Longest Day. -------------------- |
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Jun 24 2009, 10:51 PM
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 Admiral  Group: Cylon Posts: 16,619 Joined: 2-July 08 Member No.: 2,820 |
QUOTE (HeroineOfCanton @ Jun 24 2009, 10:22 PM) SPR is totally overrated after the first half hour, but we've had this talk before. Have we? Don't recall. At any rate... blaspheme! QUOTE It's been years, but I remember being bored to tears by BoB. Blaspheme! QUOTE LfIJ is frakking fantastic. It might be CE's best movie. Best war movie, maybe. Not best CE movie. Unforgiven's hard to beat, for one. QUOTE And I have to admit, I have a serious soft spot for The Longest Day. You like anything old. 
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Jun 25 2009, 07:47 AM
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Commander Group: Worker Posts: 4,878 Joined: 15-February 08 From: The corner of No and Where Member No.: 2,111 |
QUOTE (WolfeFPS @ Jun 24 2009, 11:51 PM) Best war movie, maybe. Not best CE movie. Unforgiven's hard to beat, for one. Unforgiven got bumped to two with LfIJ, but it's so close, it's hardly worth fighting over. -------------------- |
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Jun 25 2009, 11:13 AM
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 Colonel  Group: Cylon Posts: 3,200 Joined: 30-April 08 From: BaseStar 101 Member No.: 2,596 |
A good film set in WW2 is Ice Cold In Alex
Another good film is The Cruel Sea -------------------- Female Cenobite: "Didn't open the box." And what was it last time, "Didn't know what the box was?" And yet, we do keep finding each other, don't we?
Pinhead: Oh, Kirsty. So eager to play, so reluctant to admit it. Female Cenobite: Perhaps you're teasing us. Are you teasing us? Pinhead: Two minutes. Two centuries. It all ticks by so quickly. You are so very like your ancestors, did you know that? I have the distinct sense of déjà vu. The same defiance, the same faithless hope in the light? Dr Paul Merchant: And what do you have faith in? Pinhead: Nothing. I am SO exquisitely empty. |
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Jun 25 2009, 12:34 PM
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Admiral Group: Cylon Posts: 16,619 Joined: 2-July 08 Member No.: 2,820 |
QUOTE (HeroineOfCanton @ Jun 25 2009, 08:47 AM) Unforgiven got bumped to two with LfIJ, but it's so close, it's hardly worth fighting over. Oh, it's always worth fighting over.  Wait until I start a Westerns genre thread.
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Jun 25 2009, 12:47 PM
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Commander Group: Worker Posts: 4,878 Joined: 15-February 08 From: The corner of No and Where Member No.: 2,111 |
QUOTE (WolfeFPS @ Jun 25 2009, 01:34 PM) Wait until I start a Westerns genre thread. I really don't know my Westerns very well. -------------------- |
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Jun 25 2009, 12:58 PM
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Admiral Group: Cylon Posts: 16,619 Joined: 2-July 08 Member No.: 2,820 |
QUOTE (HeroineOfCanton @ Jun 25 2009, 01:47 PM) I really don't know my Westerns very well. WHAT??? -------------------- I'd rather be a Commodore than the lower half of a Rear Admiral any day.
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Jun 25 2009, 03:30 PM
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Commander Group: Worker Posts: 4,878 Joined: 15-February 08 From: The corner of No and Where Member No.: 2,111 |
QUOTE (WolfeFPS @ Jun 25 2009, 01:58 PM) WHAT??? It's true. Westerns aren't a genre I've watched a lot. I've got nothing against them, and I've liked a few, but I've just never watched many, including several big ones that I know are serious holes in my movie knowledge. -------------------- |
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Jun 25 2009, 10:17 PM
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Admiral Group: Cylon Posts: 8,064 Joined: 28-April 08 Member No.: 2,591 |
I hereby formally protest In Which We Serve, in that it deliberately, outrageously and maliciously ignores and belittles the role the USN played in the Battle of the Atlantic. Why, according to that propagandistic piece of historical revisionism, the British won that campaign all by themselves, when we all know they would have come to ruin were it not for the brave sacrifices of the Italian Resistance.
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Jun 27 2009, 09:52 AM
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Admiral Group: Cylon Posts: 16,619 Joined: 2-July 08 Member No.: 2,820 |
QUOTE (CylonNo21 @ Jun 25 2009, 11:17 PM) I hereby formally protest In Which We Serve, in that it deliberately, outrageously and maliciously ignores and belittles the role the USN played in the Battle of the Atlantic. Why, according to that propagandistic piece of historical revisionism, the British won that campaign all by themselves, when we all know they would have come to ruin were it not for the brave sacrifices of the Italian Resistance. Yeah... sames goes for Sink the Bismarck! -------------------- I'd rather be a Commodore than the lower half of a Rear Admiral any day.
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