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Originally posted by Maquiladora
Worst war film ever - Braveheart
Worst war film ever - Braveheart
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Wouldn't that leave you screwed with a contact at a longer range?Originally posted by SpencerH
Combat distances in urban warfare are very short. It makes sense to zero your weapons at contact ranges.
...maybe this explains the 200,000:1 rounds fired per combat casualty statistic...
... then again, I have zip experience with long arms so I'll take your word for it.
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To me it seemed to mostly deal with poop and related stuffOriginally posted by molly bloom
And of course there those other films such as Pasolini's 'Salo' which deal with aspects of WWII as well
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Braveheart would be my second choice. Sentimental, dull, pompous schlock that seems to drag on forever.Originally posted by OzzyKP
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Enemy at the Gates is a poor war film- the dialogue is dull, the battle scenes are not believable, and at the end I could not care if everyone died.If you don't like reality, change it! me
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Originally posted by Buck Birdseed
Braveheart would be my second choice. Sentimental, dull, pompous schlock that seems to drag on forever.
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When I was younger I thought curfews were silly, but now as the daughter of a young woman, I appreciate them. - RahComment
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I dont remember the scene but I'd guess they have them sighted in for 1-200 meters and they're firing at short range to ensure their sights havent been knocked out of alignment.Originally posted by Cruddy
Wouldn't that leave you screwed with a contact at a longer range?
...maybe this explains the 200,000:1 rounds fired per combat casualty statistic...
... then again, I have zip experience with long arms so I'll take your word for it.
We need seperate human-only games for MP/PBEM that dont include the over-simplifications required to have a good AI
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Just one old soldiers opinion. E Tenebris Lux. Pax quaeritur bello.Comment
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"A crowning achievement of 1980's Soviet cinema, Elem Klimov's Come and See is perhaps the ultimate WWII film. This savage and lyrical fever dream of death, rage and terror experienced through young eyes is a virtual primer for the subsequent, similarly psychedelic intensity of Terrence Malick's "The thin Red Line" and Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan," Klimov's elegant, harrowing union of unflinching ferocity and dreamlike clarity moved "Empire of the Sun" author J.G. Ballard to declare Come And See the greatest war film ever made. Time Out New York agreed, saying "Come And See's nimble balance of the sordid with the elegiac makes Peckinpah's 'Cross of Iron' seem like 'Newsies.'Originally posted by Sir Og
I don't have the time and my English is not good enough to describe "Come and see"
When young Florya willingly joins a group of Partisans fighting the Nazis in Byelorussia, USSR, he little suspects that he is plunging through the looking glass. Separated from his comrades during a paratroop attack and struck deaf by German artillery, Florya - in the company of Glascha, a beguiling peasant girl - wanders a battle-scorched Russian purgatory of prehistoric forests and man-made slaughter. Florya's journey takes him and us through a gallery of exquisitely poetic imagery and brutal human atrocity. Unlike traditional war films, Come And See never stoops to convenient heroic catharsis or genre movie narrative symmetry. Images of a beautiful girl's impromptu dance in the rain and an SS unit's spontaneous, self-congratulatory applause at their own butchery haunt with equal power. More than any other war film, Come And See unites the powerful truths and inescapable dilemmas that lurk behind both the raptures of youth and the horrors of war."
Does sound worth a look
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Realistic ones.Originally posted by Sava
THIN RED LINE WAS HORRIBLE!
what kind of war movie doesn't have any war?
I fell asleep...
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It's deffinately worth a look but there is nothing funny about it. In fact some of the scenes are extremely strong and might be too much for some people.Originally posted by Verres
Does sound worth a look
But thats just what war is.Last edited by Sir Og; January 31, 2005, 15:16.Quendelie axan!Comment
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We Were Soldiers - The Mel Gibson movie everyone forgets.
A Bridge Too Far - Recently saw this for the first time watching it all the way through.
Glory - Everytime I see it on TV I stop and watch. Great performances.
Saving Private Ryan - Great battle scenes and it wasn't necessary a good ending
Black Hawk Down - Hard movie to watch especially after losing some friends overseas. It has a lot of idealism and a lot WTF are we doing here.
Three Kings - very good performances from Clooney, Cube and Marky Boy
Great Escape - Classic movie
Full Metal Jacket - Another Classic
A better war film wasn't a movie at all. Band Of Brothers totatlly kicked ass in a lot of areas. Then again it had nearly 10 hours of air time while the others were more limited in what they could do.Which side are we on? We're on the side of the demons, Chief. We are evil men in the gardens of paradise, sent by the forces of death to spread devastation and destruction wherever we go. I'm surprised you didn't know that. --Saul TighComment
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Full Metal Jacket, MASH, Grand Illusion
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Some of you may disagree but the last samurai with Tom Cruise was a pretty good movie. It wasn't the best ever but I pretty much enjoyed it.
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They just start it this spring here on tv. Heard lots of good things about it, so I'm looking forward to it.Originally posted by Sprayber
Band Of Brothers totatlly kicked ass in a lot of areas. Then again it had nearly 10 hours of air time while the others were more limited in what they could do.BlahComment
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