In Harm’s Way
From Here to Eternity
The Deer Hunter
The Winds of War & War and Remembrance
Those Holocaust scenes hit hard. For a made-for-tv series it pulled no punches, there's one scene in particular that was so devastating to watch (the little girl with the flower)
I just watched “In Harm’s Way” recently, and it bathed me in a feeling of a time lost, in particular the party scene the night before the Pearl Harbor attack.
My dad was career Navy and I saw a few of those kinds of parties...cotillion like, the officers in their formal whites, the women in their finery, at night in the warm tropics outdoors under the multicolored glow of the strung lights or Chinese lanterns, there was always lots of drinking...some people acting inappropriately, that kind of thing.
I can’t put my finger on it precisely, but there was something that just made me sad about it...but maybe not quite in a really sad way.
The Deer Hunter, was an absolutely masturbatory POS with so many glaring factual errors in it obvious to anyone who’s been around the block just once that it does not merit a place on any list of BEST. Special Forces soldiers with the 101st Airborne? Making Staff Sargent on your first tour? It’s all nonsense!!!
A despicable film!