Posted on 11/11/2021 1:33:00 PM PST by sphinx
Chinese distributor CMC Pictures said Wednesday that it will release jingoistic Chinese war film “The Battle at Lake Changjin” in North America next week.
The film is currently the highest grossing title in the world and in China so far in 2021, having already earned RMB5.60 billion ($877 million) in its home market alone. It is currently the second-highest grossing film in China of all time, trailing only slightly behind “Wolf Warrior 2,” which earned RMB5.69 billion ($891 million at today’s exchange rate).
The film will arrive on screens in the U.S. and Canada on Nov. 19, and then Australia on Dec. 2.
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My brother-in-law was there when the Chinese came across the border.
The first wave had rifles. The second wave had ammo and were to pick up the rifles of the killed first wave. The third wave had what ever tool they could find. Some had staves and rocks. Some had nothing.
China had so many excess males they found a good way to get rid of them in Korea.
He walked across Korea back and forth several times. When they finally got relieved and put on a ship back to the US via Africa and Europe, every port of call made he refused to get off the ship till back in the USA.
Got it on DVD along with the made for TV version of All Quiet on the Western Front.
I think I’d prefer a German program that put the Poles in a negative light just because it would be reflective of how Germans at the time of WW2 would view them.
Does Bruce Willis have a cameo?
“Stalingrad” the 1993 Vilsmaier film. “The Winter War’ from Finland, can’t remember the year.
In Enemy Hands.
The “Life and Fate” DVD set isn’t easy to find. I struck out on Amazon, eBay, Netflix, DVD.Netflix, and our local library. I finally found it at russianDVD.com in Brooklyn, New York for $20. I may purchase it.
I’ll have to add that to my list.
Bookmarking
There is a really good Jap movie about the last days of WWII in Manchuria and subsequent Russian occupation. Really good. Unfortunately I can’t remember it’s name.
The typical “Poles drink anti-semitism with their mother’s milk” kind of approach, as if they were somehow even worse than the Nazis.
Never saw “Kolberg”, which I hear was one of the last gasps of the Nazis to keep Germans fighting to the bitter end.
“Closely Watched Trains” is another good Czech war film.
It was or is on amazon prime included with it.
(Off-topic; but this was brought to mind when I found your post in my ping-list):
Except for ‘White Christmas’, which my husband and I watch every year, I haven’t watched any war-related movie since ‘Forrest Gump’ (which I like very much, but find sort of depressing.)
When I was a kid, my WWII vet father liked to watch the ‘Combat’ series on TV, and I watched with him.
One night, I became violently sick with a very high fever, and hallucinated that enemy soldiers were surrounding my bed, pointing rifles at me, and threatening to kill my family.
This won’t be interesting to many, but I’m an inveterate ‘twitcher’, and my husband and I watched a movie recently that I found fun, gentle and thoughtful:
‘The Big Year’:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Year
I’ve never been interested in the ‘Hunger Games’ (but mincemeat pie is very good and underappreciated.)
Little Big Man....................................
Wouldn’t say all of ‘em, but I really like that about them.
I wish Hollyweird would make films as jingoistic in favor of the US as the Chicoms do in favor of the PRC.
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