Posted on 08/13/2005 10:07:45 AM PDT by curtisgardner
Yup, well done. Not perfect, but much better than most. We will probably get the dvd too.
We're going to see it next week, can't wait. It looks like a great movie.
Nope, I haven't seen Devils Brigade. What's it about and when was it made?
I do remember watching and liking the Tour of Duty series.
Devils Brigade was about the First Special Service Forces. They were the origin of the Special Forces, a team that was joint Canadian and US soldiers.
http://www.historytelevision.ca/tv/shows/titledetails/title_19665.asp
Okay, sounds interesting. Thanks for the recommendation. I'm always on the lookout for good movies.
Das Boot...
Always watch foreign movies in the original. That's a rule I've learned from anime (which I like a lot).
And Apocalypse Now was a brilliant film, really entertaining. Only political paranoids (who see communists undre their beds, just like the Jesus freaks who see Satan behind everything they don't like) might find it offensive. Try Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness," the book it was based on. A really great read, as well.
thought ya'll might find this interesting - Spielberg and Cruise were all set to make this movie, even bought the rights to Ghost Soldiers, but Miramax beat them to it.
http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,9426,00.html
Spielberg, Cruise Reenlist in "Soldiers"
by Josh Grossberg
Jan 25, 2002, 12:05 PM PT
http://www.countingdown.com/movies/502399/board?viewpost=2933945
Ghost Soldiers no longer in development
I hate to break this to everyone, but according to Dreamworks, Spielberg has dropped out of the project and it looks like that the film will not be made. The reason being is because of "The Great Raid" by Miramax. "The Great Raid" and Ghost Soldiers is too similar, and Dreamworks felt that it would be unwise to do another movie about the same subject. Apparently it looked like it was a race. While Miramax and Dreamworks both announced a movie based on the book, it was Miramax who got there first.
I saw it tonight. It is a MUST SEE for every American. Maybe then we'll stop picturing the rest of the world as wearing white hats too.
No doubt about it. The subtitles are distracting for about 10 minutes, then you adjust and forget they're there. And you gain so much, like the original spoken inflections of the original actors, which is important. Plus in the case of Das Boot, there were a lot of incidental sounds that the boom mics picked up but that weren't there in the dubbed version. They were all removed along with the dialog. If a chair creaked or a paper crumpled, it either wasn't there or it was replicated with a cheezy ex-post-facto foley approximation. Without those sounds you lose a lot of the original's ambiance.
Only political paranoids (who see communists undre their beds
I'm no Bircher, but my ideological radar is still pretty finely tuned. However, the film is such a stroke of genius that I readily forgive its lefty overtones.
Regarding Heart of Darkness, I read it about two years ago. Good stuff. I've forgotten most of it, but I still remember that line about the african locals with their scrawny arms and their joints that looked like "knots in a rope".
What I remember most about Heart of Darkness was the constant sense of clautrophobia. Maybe that was just me.
//and I'm actually a bit acrophobic; learned that during my first auto trip across Texas!
Have you watched Band of Brothers?
Conrad would be pleased to know he gave you that claustrophobic feeling. I think that was one of his goals for that book. It's interesting how Apocalypse Now has a lot of that same vibe.
I haven't, but I've seen it mentioned quite a few times on FR. Is it good?
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