Posted on 01/09/2018 6:18:46 AM PST by Rummyfan
All Quiet On The Western Front, (1930 ) is worth watching.
Battle of the Bulge: best war movie ever. Has everything,from a foot-stomping Nazi hootenanny, to stereotypes galore.
Watch a doctorate study in logistics reduced to rolling gas barrel Molotov cocktails.
Indulge in the spectacle of the war being decided on the plains of Spain.
Answers the question of whether Korean war era M47 tanks can defeat 1945 era M24 recon tanks. No, in the end they can’t, because they are gas-guzzling monsters, defeated by the zippy gas-sippers that run rings...wait, is this an indictment of the post-war American auto industry?
Watch a war movie try to incoherently weave staff-level decisions with the experience of the average Joe. Watch Telly Savalas sell black market eggs, and do his usual overacting. Watch James McArthur underact to the point I start rooting for the SS to not miss him at Malmedy.
Dang, now I have that storm trooper song stuck in my head.
later
Did your husband see Das Boot? Curious to know his reaction on that one.
“”James Woods was nominated once for Best Actor for the Oliver Stone flick Salvador.””
AND best supporting in Ghosts of Mississippi....
I think The Onion Field was the first movie of his I ever saw and Salvador was the first VCR tape I ever bought.
I loved his TV show Shark. Of course, it was good so it had to be cancelled...I still have never seen Once Upon a Time in America which I’ve heard raved about.
Oh yes! That movie both scared the crap out of me and pissed me off at the same time.
Between Heaven and Hell, 1950 something, Robert Wagner, Buddy Ebsen, Broderick Crawford (Waco) and a whole bunch of other great actors. Pacific theater jungle movie, one of my all time favorites.
For a better, and IMO, more accurate telling of that evacuation, check out Dunkirk (1958) with a great cast of British actors. This one has two stories, one of a squad making its way to the beach and the other some civilians in the UK who own small craft going over to pick them up.
One scene got to me. A little cabin cruiser is approaching the beach and the skipper says "Head over to that pier." only to discover the "pier" is a column of soldiers standing chest deep in the water.
The Sgt at the head of the line asks how many can they take and the skipper says "Twenty". The Sgt counts off 20 and says "Off you go.", then gets back to the head of the line. They wait for another boat, which never comes.
This new 1 had no leading characters even. No real acting unless you call feigning fear in a movie acting.
Merrill’s Marauders is my Favorite, hubby’s uncle was a member of Merrill’s original band. Came home with bad PSTD.
Not what this new version depicted. Just men on then beach with no cover from elements or as targets. Maybe 6 planes in the air. Most of them shot down. 1 managed to land and set fire to his aircraft and walk away. Not a really good movie of the actual events.
What this new film depicted and fact are not the same. Kind of reminded you the way they fought back in the 1700’s. No real acting, no lead, not much dialog just scenes of tragedy of 1 event centered on the beach.
But if you look at the fly bys it’s clearly nowhere near 4000,000 men on the beach.
There weren’t a lot of planes in the air, they were saving the planes for later.
It actually was a very good movie for actual events. They even had at least one boat that actually participated.
Battle of the Bulge: best war movie ever. Has everything,from a foot-stomping Nazi hootenanny, to stereotypes galore.
Watch a doctorate study in logistics reduced to rolling gas barrel Molotov cocktails.
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It was an OK movie...Robert Shaw was fine...
I do notice that Tiger tanks are actually US tanks...
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