Posted on 05/23/2019 5:09:10 AM PDT by srmanuel
I saw (and heard it) in a huge screen theater with sense-surround. It is shocking the zipping supersonic bullet sounds. I kept wincing. Worth the money.
“A Riddle,
In an Enigma
Wrapped in a Mystery.”
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It’s A Stroy for Crips Sakes!
A Story!
and that’s all it was! A film!
That’s my point!
Hollyweird pretentiousness wants you to think its history!
That way they can pretend they’re doing something more then just entertaining.
If I see "This is a true story", I fully expect that to faithfully portray the real story, and I do take umbrage at deviation from that if they characterize it that way.
My most hated movie that was "based on a true story" is "The Monuments Men".
I despise that movie with a white hot burning passion.
Not only did they completely butcher and make a ridiculous and stupid movie based on the real thing, but...they could have made a serious and fantasic movie about the TRUE story, accurately portraying it. It was an amazing true story, no need to Hollywoodize it and make it stupidly ridiculous. I was so looking forward to that, when I heard about it, but when it got closer and I saw who they were casting for it, well...I had an idea.
Another movie I liked, but was sorely disappointed in, was "Unbroken". To me, the MOST powerful part of that true story was after the war ended, his story about becoming an alcoholic and destroying his life only to find God and make his way back to Japan to meet and forgive in person the men who took part in torturing him. I thought the deliberate OMISSION of that part of the story gutted it nearly completely. I thought that was the most powerful part of his story. they could have cut out 15 minutes of them drifting on the ocean and used that at the end, but I heard the producer didn't want to bring religion into it!
"Too many people think what Hollyweird portrays is history..."
I completely agree, but what I once found more disturbing was when I went to see the movie "Apollo 13" (which WAS a true story and received high acclaim for accuracy) and was walking out of the theater, I heard a young couple conversing in front of me and the woman said "I was really glad the movie ended the way it did..."
LOL, I nearly fell to the floor!
I visited Normandy a couple of weeks ago. It was a package tour thru the National WWII Museum. Recommended, for those who can spare the time and the shekels. About 30 in the group, plus an expediter, and a tour guide who was a local who has a Master’s Degree in history. Very interesting.But as to “blood and guts,” if you aren’t talking about the Falaise Pocket which in August, 1944 chewed up all the armor the Germans had in Normandy, you aren’t really taking blood and guts. The Germans had to pass through a valley about 10 km long and 1 km wide, with British and Canadians on one side, and Americans on the other - and the Poles trying to cork the exit of it. After the fight there was a huge cloud of flies feasting and breeding on the carrion of German soldiers. After the war, France sent the scrap of German tanks &c back to Germany - and they only finished the task in the 21st Century!
“...”Apollo 13” (which WAS a true story and received high acclaim for accuracy) and was walking out of the theater, I heard a young couple conversing in front of me and the woman said “I was really glad the movie ended the way it did...”
They probably thought Star Wars was a documentary!
A few modern war films that deserve praise are "Hacksaw Ridge" (Mel Gibson project) and "Fury". I'd go to see either in the theater if re-released.
The Band of Brothers episodes were much better.
I was on a Tour at the American Cemetery, we only had about 45 minutes or so to walk through it, but I could have easily spent an entire day there.
Also, nearby there is the German cemetery, which is still well maintained, it's a real surreal experience to go there, I just tell myself that most of those soldiers were caught in a whirlwind and didn't have much of a choice, must were just kids when Hitler came to power.
Heheh.
My husband once told a co-worker about how he was tired because I had started watching TORA TORA TORA last night and thenPATTON came on and I just kept watching it so he did too.
The man replied to him in awe and gushed “You have the best wife ever!”
Couldn’t care less about concession prices, seats and sounds are great. My Complaints:
1. Nervous Nellie(s) who get up and down and go to the lobby 8 - 12 times.
2. Cel phones, beepers, or other noise makers.
3. Conversations on any of the above.
4. The ‘clever’ jack behind you who is certain EVERYONE wants to hear his really cool running summation of the movie.
5. People talking about almost any subject.
6. My wife constantly pulling my arm and saying, “now don’t go get into a fight.”
And a few other things I can’t think of at this moment.
Your theaters must be constantly filled to capacity.
None of those things is even close to happening most of the time.
But then, I do not believe in being there the first day to try to be “up with the Jones’”. So I don’t usually have crowded theaters that might produce all that.
I DO NOT like the trend of ordering tickets and saving/picking seats ahead of time. It’s not fair to those who go on a whim or even for me ordering them, when I don’t want to be tied down to both a date and assigned seats.
For $12 or so I have a great day of it without crying kids, dumb asses and face rearranging. And if we all stop going every now and then we'll find theaters gone one day like Walmart wipes out so many local businesses.
A movie that comes fairly close to reality is “Black Hawk Down”
Until they figure out a way to keep people from floating in and out of the theater because they are watching multiple movies at the cineplex I doubt I’ll be going back...very distracting to me. Last time were at a week day matinee and there was 8 or so people in a 200 seat theater a guy had the who place to sit in but just had to sit at the end of our isle eating noisy nachos and playing with his cell phone which is supposed to be taboo.
A neighbor loaned me this yesterday. If you haven’t seen it give it a shot. Made me so proud to be an American.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1019454/
The victims of the Falaise Pocket were directed by Hitler to undertake a suicidal attack, which the Allies kept thinking they would have the sense to abort. But, especially because of Hitler’s having so recently survived that assassin’s bomb, Hitler brooked no dissent and the required obedience to a commitment of all available reserves to an attack. Once that failed, there was no choice but retreat through enemy territory with horrendous losses.But none of the people in the attack necessarily believed it could be anything but disastrous.
My brother was one of them.
He spoke freely about his participation in the War but that scene of the landing was too much for him.
He was in the Coast Guard attached to the Navy.
He drove those landing crafts up to Omaha Beach loaded with soldiers.
When he saw the ramp drop, the Germans mowing down the men it was too realistic. He walked out in tears.
Wasn’t the Falaise Pocket the first large scale tactual use of strategic bombers? If I remember this right, massed German armored formations were obliterated by Allied carpet bombing.
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