Tora Tora Tora,
In Harms Way,
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From the website:
Comedy in war:
STRANGLELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB. Another Kubrick film. This was the first satire I ever saw on film. Peter Sellers may have been a nut in real life, but was a comedic genius on the big screen.
War comedies?
Is it “Stripes” with the RV urban assault vehicle and Bill Murry and John Candy? I always get a kick out of that one.
My Tivo recorded Kelly’s Heroes on Memorial Day and I’m watching it now. Lots of good effects, but so damn implausible that it’s utterly ridiculous. It has such a 60s hippy (Sutherland) and anti-Vietnam vibe to it that it is quite annoying. A big disappointment to me.
“In Harm’s Way” is a movie that I did not see until recently, because I heard from people that it sucked.
I finally watched it, and I loved it. I thought it was a good story, but interestingly for me, the opening scenes really left an impression on me.
Having grown up a Navy brat and served as well, the first scene on December 6th, 1941 where there was a party in dress whites at the Officer’s Club at Pearl Harbor really took me back in a nostalgic way...my parents went to a lot of parties like that, and there was something that completely rang true, including the behavior of some of the characters, someone sleeping with someone else’s spouse while he is at sea, etc.