Das Boat was a good naval story told from the German point of view.
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Not enough death and destruction in Lawrence of Arabia. Plus Lawrence was a bit on the psycho side with his god complex.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.
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saving private ryan was IMO pretty good because of the combat scenes that were good. One of the best scenes I've ever seen, looked kind of realistic, even though I've never seen real combat so I can't compare. Other than that, it was average. Doesn't even come close to Apocalypse now (redux)!
It's pretty funny, that perhaps two of the biggest Vietnam movies, Platoon and Apocalypse now, the stars are father and son.. martin and charlie sheen.
In Platoon theres good thing going on between Elias and Barnes.. and then people just being divided between them.In da butt.
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Das Boot is a helluva good movie..
the intensity of the life in a primitive submarine.. how people behave in such conditions etc... great piece of art"An archaeologist is the best husband a women can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her." - Agatha Christie
"Non mortem timemus, sed cogitationem mortis." - Seneca
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Agreed. Das Boot is great.. Though it focuses on facial expressions for about 1.5 hours, it's still great. It shows the horror in the men pretty good.In da butt.
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"God is dead" - Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" - God.
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SPR wins for best combat footage filmed by people who have never been in combat before*.
To name one not listed, though it is kind of dated now in some themes and cultural assumptions is Bridge on the River Kwai. Today anybody making a movie about British superiority in engineering and manufacturing over the Japanese will get laughed out of the box office.
*Most probably not true, but true for most of the principals.
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Uh oh, now I remember. We Were Soldiers.. now there's some great combat scenes too! Plus I like it better than SPR in other things as well. I think it's one helluva movie.
Favourite scene is where choppers comes and shoots the (don't know english word) mark so the planes can shoot napalm.. that's impressive. I mean technically, not that people burn because of it. It's just one big explosions.
Also the leading of Gibson is quite realistic I believe, and that kind of battles are rare to be in movies where you can see the whole area and see how he commands his troops at all times.In da butt.
"Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others." - Confucius
THE UNDEFEATED SUPERCITIZEN w:4 t:2 l:1 (DON'T ASK!)
"God is dead" - Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" - God.
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I saw a very good movie about winter war. It got me flamed on many a internet board because I claimed that Finns won, based on knowledge from it
There are very good so called 'partisan movies' from ex-Yugoslavia, but I doubt anyone heard of them.
Of american films... apocalypse now is good, we were soldiers is good..
anyone seen that one where a russian T-72 is fleeing afghanistan, chased by the locals? interesting.
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